My son took this one last week during a stay on a friend’s cottage.
I’m still amazed these days how much information we can bring out from darkness on the digital darkroom, but I’m not satisfied with my rendering.
I’d like to know if there’s a more recommended approach so that we don’t have that reddish halo around the sun.
Yeah, in scenes like this, I prefer to leave only the direct sun glow, which is more a less how I would see it with my eyes.
As for the highlight rolloff, it’s 0.597832
My attempt using ART. Used log tone mapping, tone equaliser, tone curve and local contrast. A tricky one. Still room for improvement, but it looks sunny outside and work in the garden beckons now…
From earth ground, sun appears yellow to orange, depending of the thickness and composition of atmosphere travelled by sun light.
Thus, for my taste, I cannot find realistic a photo where the sun appears white, especially when sun is down on horizon.
For me it’s kind of the opposite. When I directly look into the sun, it is most of the time pure white. But there is no point in discussing “realistic” for me, as everybody sees the world differently.
In a situation like this, where the highlights are just blown out, I do not try to attempt to bring or color or details where there is no information.
It’s just a matter of blending the clipped parts as gracefully as possible.