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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

 

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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: 

  1. shoot in RAW format. There are several cheap or free camera apps, and most current smartphones can shoot raw.
  2. Use exposure bracketing to capture 5-7 images, and process them as hdr stack.
  3. 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.
  4. 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. 
 

 

 

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