guess how this photo was taken

You flew through space to the heart of the sun,
took a picture of the heart of the sun,
realized you'd underexposed it,
opened it with Adobe Camera RAW,
pumped the saturation up to 110%,
boosted the contrast 36.2%,
fiddled with curves to move the Black Point 21 points from "normal,"
then opened it in Adobe Photoshop CS3,
saved for web with .jpg extention at quality level 4,
and posted the image to RFF.
 
All good guesses, but wrong. I could post the easy answer, or give more photos that will likely give you more hints. What's the preference?
 
answer

answer

bmattock said:
I'd rather guess *why* it was taken.
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That's a rather philosophical question. I just ordered prints of it, so I guess someone thinks it's an interesting photograph.
 
is it an extremely enlarged high-speed film shot of a car rear light ?
Or perhaps the colour was added with software and this was a b+w film of some sort ?
 
hint # 2

hint # 2

No post processing, just clicked the shutter.

Was taken with a P&S, for extra hints, the EXIF info. should be in there.

MartinP said:
is it an extremely enlarged high-speed film shot of a car rear light ?
Or perhaps the colour was added with software and this was a b+w film of some sort ?
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Come to think of it, it was a bit warm. I wonder if the Costco photo person will notice I have a tan or sunburn...
 
No, but I am very interested

No, but I am very interested

in getting one of those M body cover pinhole caps though. The shipping prices are outrageous though.

Tuolumne said:
Pinhole camera. Exposure of the disk of the sun.

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I doubt it, but probably good idea not to

I doubt it, but probably good idea not to

except with inexpensive cameras.

unlikely to be powerful enough to do damage If it's a consumer level laser like our ~$5 pet one, especially if it gets diffused by a lens in front, however, be sure never to look or point them at the eyes, as they could be more powerful than they're supposed to be.

I used a digial P&S for all my photos, and didn't even look at the LCD until after the photo was taken. The laser definitely shows some interesting behaviors of the digital sensors and microlenses reflection behavior.

We were also able to do basic showing of total internal reflection with a milk like substance and other simple laser things. It does diffuse fast through any substance and I think may become a way to run some specific tests on lenses.

Tuolumne said:
I have a green one. Maybe I'll give it a try - but, say, won't that burn a hole in your shutter?

/T
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