Sunburst through trees

This one's from November 2 years ago, at Hardcastle Crags. The leaves were in their autumnal colours, but I converted this image to black and white to focus on the sunburst.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 200, f/10, 1/125s, 20mm, hand held.

Sunburst through winter woodland.

This is Hathershelf Scout Wood at Mytholmroyd. photographed on an April afternoon last year.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/11, 1/100s, 18mm, hand held.

Ferns lit up by a sunburst through trees

This one's from November 2014 at Hardcastle Crags. I remember how lovely the scene was, but it was really hard to process the photo to accurately represent it due to the high contrasts (it was probably best suited to HDR, something I haven't tried yet).

Camera/lens settings: ISO 400, f/11, 1/125s, 28mm, hand held.

Sunburst through woodland

This one's from November 2013 at Hardcastle Crags. I remember swaying about on the path, adjusting my position fractionally each time to capture a good sunburst - thankfully no-one else was around!

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/22, 1/2s, 29mm, hand held.

Sunburst through Autumn foliage over walled path

I took this yesterday on a walk from Hebden Bridge over the hills to Stoodley Pike, Todmorden. The sky was grey when we set off, but the sun came out as we climbed the valley side under the trees. By the time we reached Stoodley Pike a couple of hours later, the sky had turned black, the wind whipped up and it started to rain! A lovely walk, though.

Lighting conditions were tricky with no tripod or filters and I had to use a high ISO to keep aperture small and shutter speed fast. Post production, I used a graduated filter to reduce the highlights in the patches of sky, then increased exposure and contrast overall.