Freehand - NO FlashSun lighting up the tree through the forest. I'm walking along, gazing up through the trees, looking for leaves with colors enhanced by the sun... looking for a gap in the dense forest trail to get a good solid "fall leaf" type shot, when this jumped out at me. This is Not only an incredibly beautiful shot of brightly colored fall leaves, but notice the surroundings and sides? I DID NOT USE A FLASH (or reflector - or anything else) to create this light! That is all natural lighting! It was like God's spot light, "OK, HERE YOU GO, BUT NOW YOU HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO CAPTURE THIS, because no one is going to believe a focused ray of light coming DIRECTLY from the sun through a dense forest, and only highlighting those leaves near you."Well, it did. At first I walked by, thinking it was too close... thinking it would disappear or that I was seeing things. So I slowly backed up and just stared. It was so beautiful, so obvious... and ever so BRIGHT in this dense forest on the side of the Biltmore Estate! When I first pulled my camera to change the settings and take the shot, I got a massive amount of sun flare through the eye piece. The big rainbow circle, the dots, the shear brightness of a direct shot INTO the setting sun was a major challenge. So I stopped for a moment and thought... just how do I capture this, without all the flares and spots? Note the EXIF settings:Camera: Canon EOS 50DExposure: 0.001 sec (1/1250)Aperture: f/4Focal Length: 35 mmISO Speed: 200Exposure Bias: 0 EVFlash: Flash did not fireI took two shots - two different settings - this is the best of the two. The DoF on the other was far too shallow. I hope you enjoy it. It prints out beautifully. I was going to put some saying or caption on the frame... but I still haven't figured out the right words. Any suggestions?