Solar eclipse Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 Hello, I took pictures of this past solar eclipse. They are in jpeg. While taking the pictures with a filter I was able to see the crescent shape of the moon over the sun. However the pictures area of the sun is blown out I cannot see the crescent. Can Affinity correct this please ? If so how? thanks, Charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanSG Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 I'm not optimistic, but it would help if you could post an image here for us to look at. Quote AP, AD & APub user, running Win10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solar eclipse Posted June 13, 2021 Author Share Posted June 13, 2021 Taken with cell phone. The others are with my d7500. Thanks for responding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 On 6/12/2021 at 10:27 AM, Solar eclipse said: I took pictures of this past solar eclipse. They are in jpeg. While taking the pictures with a filter I was able to see the crescent shape of the moon over the sun. However the pictures area of the sun is blown out I cannot see the crescent. Can Affinity correct this please ? If so how? As @IanSG already said: Affinity Photo unfortunately cannot magically bring back those details deleted by jpeg encoding and compression. If you have more photos of the same scene, with reduced exposure (underexposed), there might be a chance. Except you want to use e.g. ellipse tool and paint them back in - artificially. Just as recommendation for future shots of sun images or other scenes with wide dynamic range: shoot in RAW format. There are several cheap or free camera apps, and most current smartphones can shoot raw. Use exposure bracketing to capture 5-7 images, and process them as hdr stack. Use ND filters of suitable value (64 - 1024) for images of sun to protect both you eyes and your camera against damage. Your ND filter was not strong enough in this image. A tripod could help you to setup you camera and gear ahead of time, and allows to take exposure bracket shots easy to stack in Photo. Start practicing taking sun images and processing them as training well ahead of those rare events, so you are sure you will master them next time. Solar eclipse 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. My posts focus on technical aspects and leave out most of social grease like „maybe“, „in my opinion“, „I might be wrong“ etc. just add copy/paste all these softeners from this signature to make reading more comfortable for you. Otherwise I’m a fine person which respects you and everyone and wants to be respected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solar eclipse Posted June 13, 2021 Author Share Posted June 13, 2021 Thank you for your advice. Have a great day. NotMyFault 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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