Red circles in my Sunrise??? Any suggestions???

It is the brilliant light refracting in your lens. You can see them inside your viewfinder before you take the shot. The only solution is a straight shot centered on the sun, on automatic settings but close your eyes once you set it up, quickly for you can damage your eyes and your lens!! But many times if you do not use a filter on your lens, you will still have them. I take many sunset images, thousands, and when the refractions are small I remove them very carefully by zooming to about 800% then cloning them out pixel by pixel and then use the smoothing tools to blend. Keep practicing, it is the wonder of digital photography, you may take thousands of images and it only costs you your time. I find with a truly dazzling bright sun, I point my camera overhead directly at the sky away from the sun. Not at the horizon nor at anything close or near me, but at the sky above at infinity. I press my shutter button halfway to autoset the focus points, at the beep I hold it, then I move my camera down and face the sun, then press the shutter button all the way down to take the shot. It works almost everytime. But you must press your autofocus on infinity sky in the same general area as the sun, just above it's brightest point. If you press your shutter button halfway down to autofocus on a point too far from the sun, it will be darker, and your aperature setting will be so wrong that your shutter will remain open too long and you can damage your lens. The aperature exposure of most of my sunset or sunrise images indicate the exposure is usually 1/4000th of a second, which clearly indicates the lens is open a seriously brief nano second. I never use the creative mode where I must set the f-stops and aperature to avoid a mistake in having my lens open too long. I always use the automatic setting for sun images.

said ourjrny 10 months 3 days ago

I personaly think that sun flares or red and green spots add character to a photo. They are all great shots. Cheers from kevin in Australia.

said barramundiman 10 months 1 days ago

A very beautiful album. Thank you for sharing. Best wishes from Lyn. United Kingdom.

said lynnie440 8 months 12 days ago