Southern Lights
Iridescent Clouds2 total reviews
Comment from jesuel
what a beautiful photo the color is great the detail is great excellent depth the lighting is amazing beautiful work here
reply by the author on 12-Mar-2012
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what a beautiful photo the color is great the detail is great excellent depth the lighting is amazing beautiful work here
Comment Written 12-Mar-2012
reply by the author on 12-Mar-2012
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Thank you, your kind review is much appreciated.
Comment from Hoepfner
Very nice. Again I did not read the bio. Sorry. But if you did what I am about to tell you to do when taking a shot like this then please forgive me. First of all I would have used a tripod. 2nd I would have used 400 speed Fuji film and third I would have used a 50mm lens with an "f" stop of 1.4. Reasons: The tripod is for steadiness when taking night shots like this, esp if you run a more lengthy exposure and the lens and "f" stop is because that is a fast set up. That lens and stop and film will allow more light into camera therefore making a better shot.
Goof work, keep it up and keep on truckin
Sincerely,
John Hoepfner
reply by the author on 12-Mar-2012
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Very nice. Again I did not read the bio. Sorry. But if you did what I am about to tell you to do when taking a shot like this then please forgive me. First of all I would have used a tripod. 2nd I would have used 400 speed Fuji film and third I would have used a 50mm lens with an "f" stop of 1.4. Reasons: The tripod is for steadiness when taking night shots like this, esp if you run a more lengthy exposure and the lens and "f" stop is because that is a fast set up. That lens and stop and film will allow more light into camera therefore making a better shot.
Goof work, keep it up and keep on truckin
Sincerely,
John Hoepfner
Comment Written 12-Mar-2012
reply by the author on 12-Mar-2012
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Wow, a five+ rating. Thank you very much for your throughout review and your input. There are some issues what keeps me from following ypour advice. I could not use a tripod because the shot is taken from the ocean. I was standing about knee deep in the water. I can't use Fuji film because it as any other traditional film is not available at my current location. The shot is taken with a digital camera. The lights change very fast but a took a lot of different photos with different settings. I used different ISIO as well. For some reason, maybe connected to the rear light phenomenon as such, the shots with low ISO numbers show better color. This shot has an ISO of 100 with an f stop set accordingly to 5.6. This is not a night shot, but day light just before sunrise. The darkness is caused by heavy clouds above and below the iridescent clouds. Sorry, my current location dos not allow to work as you suggest; but I truly appreciate your advice.
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Sorry, but you have got to be able to use a lower mm and "f" stop...believe me...you will get a better result! John
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As I wrote, I have that too. I got shots between ISO 100 and 800. For some reason the low settings turned out better. I admit it could be the camera. It may dos not exactly work as set anymore. The hard and software of cameras get easy damaged by the extreme climatic circumstances. [It seems also that ISO dos not work the same on film and digital in my experience.]
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Dear Lights: Yes low setings will turn out better because they let more light in to the sysyem. And I can not argue RE: Film and digital because I really do not know anything about digital. Some day I will most likely have to, when I can no longer buy film. Wait and see. As for the weather conditions I have empathy for you...all us photographers have to deal with weather guess that's why the National Geographic guys and gals get paid the big bucks. Keep shooting and truckin...You are on your way. John
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I am actually were the guys from NG earn their salary, just that I do not get these big bugs. I think it's the conditions were I was shooting under. I think with the lower f-stop I got to much of the sun glare. [Consider it is shout at day time.]I was lucky. The iridescence only occurs in thin clouds, but here these thin clouds were accompanied by banks of thick clouds [an unusual combination as well]. The sun is actually below the lower cloud just rising. I could avoid the sun by shooting high. The photo is actually the illusion of a landscape. What looks like hills below are clouds, what looks like a small building is a balcony with a staircase downward of a three-level building.
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Great/wow/cool Can you hit on any of the NG guys for tips? John
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Probably not, these guys fly in, take photos and rarely speak to the locals. They are usually to sophisticated to talk to locals, exept they want a photo of them. I got more from reading the magazine.