Day 175.5: ...starts and finishes
And so to one of my bonus pages. It is of course, the fault of that group of the #612tweepsters who urge us all on to capture the colours of the morning and, as it turned out, the evening sky...
The morning started with glorious colours:
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| A wispy start (iPhone) |
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| Morning palette (Canon) |
Some of us were then urged on unto the sunset, in the hope, nay, expectation that the sunset would be as spectacular as the sunrise...a nice formation of clouds during the day offered much promise. There was also the opportunity to exercise my night photography learnings...
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| To the east |
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| Story Bridge from Mt Gravatt (cropped) |
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| Evening palette 1 |
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| Cityscape 1 |
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| Almost done |
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| Sun down (more westerly) |
There is much experimentation here with shutter speeds, f stops, lenses and, most importantly this time: the tripod! Even then, the wind and chill factor added an extra challenging element I had to account for in setting up each shot. There is no after shot editing here for colour, all was determined via ISO, shutter speeds and apertures. Such a mix.
And since these bonus days are about my photographic study dear reader, I don't mind saying that of the six or so that made the cut here, about 25 fell by the wayside...not only that, one might have thought it a tad obsessive to chase all the way up the mount for these shots. But no dear reader, I was one of several. It seems sunsets attract just as many chasers as moonrises and storm chasers.
To each of us then...whatever. There remains much to learn.
[Cameras: iPhone 4S and Canon EOS 60D, lenses from 18mm to 300mm; times: 6.27am and 6.31am, and 5.19-5.37pm]
