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Well, here is an easy entry that doesn't require a lot of explaining and whatnot. I chased this day and didn't see a whole lot in southeast Nebraska. Nothing new. On the way home I noticed what I figured were mammatus, barely visible in a skinny anvil off the crap storms I'd been chasing. A couple hours later, at sunset, I wondered if they'd pop out more and if they were indeed mammatus, and sure enough they did and they were. Thanks to all the haze it was very hard to see them earlier. It was hard enough that I wasn't positive they were what I was seeing.
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Well, the mammatus weren't that spectacular and I am well aware of what a setting sun can do in this kind of humidity. It was an easy choice, yank off the wide angle lens and get that zoom on there! If there's any good to summer humidity, this is it.
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These are all at the 400mm end of my 100-400 canon. It can be hot and humid and still not have this happen like this. It takes the exceptionaly moist days to do this. As the sun nears the horizon, it enters the thicker haze near the ground and turns pure red.
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It can be quite the sight, especially if you have something telephoto like this to shoot it with. I need more though. Too bad the 600mm is $8,000. I've thought about getting a teleconverter, like a 1.4x or the 2x, but it almost sounds like I'd be just as well to crop into the image(especially low detail shots like this). Anyway, none of these are cropped.
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Hell, like I said in an earlier post, this is the reason I bought this lens. I wanted something to zoom out on these summer sunsets and make the sun fill more of the frame. Right now you could stare right at the sun and not have any burn in effect left over.
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When various clouds float in front of it, it will often make me think of Jupiter.
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It was pretty cool as it came out of that thicker area of haze and the bottom began to light up, and show as the more normal yellow color.
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Bye bye and thanks for the show!
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June 25, 2007 Sunset Below
I almost left the camera and lens home on this trip out to walk my parent's dogs. It wasn't neary as humid this day and I wasn't figuring it'd be worth it. I've thought this before and kicked myself later. So, I took it with, just incase. It wasn't special, but I wanted to try it with that driveway and house. I'm in need of a location with better objects on the horizon to put with it. I really need to buy photoshop CS2 so I can do HDR(high dynamic range) stuff for these larger dynamic range scenes. Even with just one exposure you can get some foreground detail with a setting sun. One can certainly do a whole lot better with HDR and shooting several exposures. Will most likely be buying the upgrade soon.
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I never saw that bird till I looked at the shot on the lcd. That's the other thing I want to do, get one of those cool birds taking flight with a big sun in the background shots. I need more zoom and some birds.
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Sweet, some clouds on the horizon making it at least a little more interesting.
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Bye bye again. I'm sure I'll be shooting a lot more sunsets now that I have this lens. Still needing more reach though. Hmmm, a telescope maybe. It really can be a hobby all by itself, shooting sunsets. |
