Snowy Woods Horicon-78-Edit One of the elements of interest here is the sun star created by shooting at a narrow aperture, f/22, on a wide angle lens. Lenses of about 24 mm or shorter are best for this. The aperture should be fully closed, and the sun should not be fully visible. In this case, the sun actually poked through a tiny hole formed between a branch and ice buildup. To help previsualize the star effect, hold the aperture preview button on your camera to stop down the lens, and position the sun where the star effect appears to be greatest. Then shoot. There are different ways to meter every image. Here I used an incident meter, but you could also spot meter a highlight and open up 2.5 stops.

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