This morning in Brasil, a large part of Africa, Turkey and Russia was been visible a total solar eclipse. When a total eclipse occurs, there are some zone on earth (like Rome, exactly) where the solar eclipse is partial. This picture was captured during this partial phase of the eclipse on the flat roof of the phisics’ building at the University ‘La Sapienza’ with some friends of mine.

To realize this picture I used a orange solar filter, a tripod and I set the ISO speed to 400, a time exposure of 1/80 seconds and f/4,9.

This experience has remembered to me, with a lot of wistfulness, the total eclipse of 11 August, 1999 I saw in Hungary.

This photo shows a sunset on the Adriatic sea, it was taken from a running train heading Trieste (in the North-East of Italy), and I love its hue homogeneity.

For publishing this picture I have before downloaded it from my digicamera, I have rotated the frame and I have cropped it. Nothing else graphics correction was applied to this photo.
And I love that too

Here is an old picture of a sunset near my house. It was taken in April but it still preserve all its unchanged charm

To capture this image of the Sun I set an exposure timing of 1/2000 seconds, ISO 50, an aperture of f/4.7. The only digital correction I made was a greater color saturation. The rest was made by the atmosphere.

After easter holidays, I’m back to publish my best pictures. The following was taken on a running car, at 6 o’clock (winter time) in Friuli’s countryside.

Note how the close-up field appears “dragged” because of motion of the car.

The technical notes are: aperture f/4,9, exposure timing 1/100 seconds (to avoid to make a completely blurred photo), ISO-100.

This effect is made by rifraction of sun light on lens. Any lens creates a similar effect, depends on internal structure of itself.

Anyway are always present circles or ellipses with some colors coming from the principal source of light in the photo, the sun in this case. This creates a nice composition also thanks trees that frame all this effect.

One technical note: ISO-50 is the best for sun photos.

To celebrate the upgrading to a new wp release (1.5) and the consequent theme changing, I have the pleasure to publish the following picture taken in the first springlike sunny day of this year.

[update: this photo had participated at Photo Friday in 04-01-05 ‘Worn’ challenge as link n.636]

The image of the tree was taken as a silhouette shooting the photo with the sun light behind the subject. It’s important to underexpose the tree to eliminate any detail in the figure and showing only a clear dark shadow. To realize this I have set time exposure to 1/1000 seconds, f/4.7, and an ISO speed rating of 50.

Even if the sky is cloudy, it can be source of beautiful pictures. And if some computer graphics techniques are applied, the result can seem… ultramundane!

Technically this picture is realized taking an image of the sun covered by clouds with an exposure of 1/2000 seconds, a focal lenght of 17mm, f/8.3, ISO-50. That short exposure is available only in automatic mode in my digital camera. The limit is 1/1000 seconds in manual mode.

After shooting I regulate contrast with the “curves” function and I have applied a color variation towards… red. Incredible, isn’t it?