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hygge, With thick clouds, contrast is very important. If you can pre program your dslr for a max contrast capture I would take the time to do it. Contrast is important because its needed to separate the grey tones of clouds AND most digital cameras use contrast to electronically focus.So, shooting into the sun is just seeing where the hilight is and positioning the highlite to be were the eye goes to. Using contrast to direct the eye is part of the craft.
The challenge of shooting directly overhead in thick stormy wrack,,is seeing the contrast and seeing if there is enough there to work with. The fast moving part makes it a real challenge . So camera is pre programed, eye is attuned to where the ” action ” or movement is and hopefully where there is shadow and highlite as well. When All the elements come together, start pressing the shutter button. Processing takes over after that. Again, I can’t recommend Adobe Lightroom enuf. Not into the sun, Just having highlites for the eye to go to.
Gentlemen thanks for your generous words. I took another look of that days shoot and found this one below. Actually i found a whole bunch of shots I had forgotten about. oh well.
H..I did google for Alberto Bertoldi’s web site and found an informative inspiring presentation of his work.
Thank You Jacqueline for your kind words! Below is another unhinged work in dealing with balance. All clouds!
hygge, Being free of preconceived notions is the idea of no luggage. As you say, depths are plumbed when free to do so. I play with ” balance’ in these 3 pictures. Contrast between line and shape , between textures , form and flow, between white and black ( of course) etc etc,,working together and in opposition to create some kind of “balance”;thats the idea with the observer flying thru these cloud pictures.
I believe, or at least have read,,that just about all digital camera sensors see further into the infra red than the human eye/brain. And Canon makes a camera just for astronomy buffs that goes way further into infra red. Often while processing digital shots, things pop out in the picture that weren’t observed originally.
Hello hygge..Well, the saying is..the early bird gets the worm..so it goes. The Light of early morning is a fun playground yet challenging because its short play period. Its not so much of a stretch for me tho, since my work hours have me up before sunrise anyway. I see the pre sunrise sky on the way to work thru out the year.
Yes, “Scarce to the eye” is true. First my eyes are aged. The first photo below from same shoot, indicates the physical challenge.More important than to my eyes..is ..to the camera’s electronic focusing eye,,or eyes. Digital camera needs contrast to focus.Fortunately DSLR’s have manual focus option. There is all sort of ways of ” tricking” that option and apparently I was successful. Most pics from that morning are amazing to me just because they ” held” focus. My weak eyes were only good for estimations, but my brain narrowed the possibilities to surprisingly acceptable.
Looking at these shots (above) on the computer at work , makes me want to say, Ihope viewers have high resolution screens. The pics at work looked soft. They really are sharp. Again, if possible, click and drag to your computer then enlarge them for some amazing detail.
btw..if I am correct and not missing something,,it seems we, I,,am limited to a 20 photograph album. So for every new foto I post, a previous foto has to go..A part of me likes the delicious nature of this play. So,if you see where fotos use to be, but are no longer, that is what is happening. I have all originals anyway.
Marsha thank you for your kind words. They have motivated me to start looking at what is available and how to do it, in the web at least. Maybe an agent is in order.
Since you brought it up , below is a recent shot that owes a bit to A Wyeth’s ” Christina’s World”. I create a false horizon line with the black negative space of high contrast. The 3D effect is illusion, but it works. I like to call the photograph..” Over The Hill.”
Gini, Irene, Thank You! You are making me blush. I have quite a backlog of photos. Here are some more as I sort thru them:
My apologies! I had forgotten about these lacunosus pics from a late afternoon shoot a while back. The angle of light produced some interesting effects. They are best if you drag to desk top then make as large as you can.
okay hyg..look at the upper left quadrant of the 2nd pic of 79492. You mite see a pink/yellow arc from upper horizontal to lower vertical. The area behind the arc is slitely darker. Yes that is part of a sun halo. Its a bit more difficult to see in the first of the pics below. There are two close ups and the last pic is a small patch next to the main field, that began to form but never got mature past what you see there. It dissipated from the point in time of the photograph. Part of the sun halo can be discerned in the upper rite quadrant of the first shot below.
And Bill, I would consider myself very fortunate to witness NLC. Currently I live too far south to expect seeing NLC. ( Phx Az) but who knows what travels await me? As mentioned, two close ups of lacunosus and a baby that never got any bigger. If you can drag these to desk top and then blow them up as big as possible,,you mite be in for some fun. I get lost for hours in lacunosus.hyg..Fascinating,, Cloudspotter’s Guide has Stratiformis as Species of the mentioned Clouds, and is specific to..”.extend over a large area”; widespread indeed. To illustrate, a few pics from April 2015 sightings of the Lacunosus. The first gives a scale, yes that is the Superstition Mtns, pic taken from near work. Second shot is almost directly over head with some sun halo. The field seemed to mature out of nowhere as I took pics of what you see in the first shot. Third shot is a week later at my home. As I recall, a good wind is involved in moving these observed fields of lacunosus. There is suggestion of undulatus in the 2nd shot. Both events were at altocumulus levels, that is, higher than the first set of photographed lacunosus.
Ahh! hygge, a more correct appellation of species would be stratoformis, which as you point out, can be stratocumulus, altocumulus , cirrocumulus and even noctillucent. That lacunosus is stratified, horizontally displayed and at that, manifested over large swaths of sky, makes for challenging photo sessions . The above field of lacunosus was photographed close to work, the east valley . The lacunosus was the lowest I’ve ever witnessed allowing for a better perception of depth of the cloud structure. No mamma, just that the white is actually above the grey structure of lacunosus. This display, is one of the thinnest or least dense displays of the woven. The pic below was taken a few months later almost directly over my house. The lacunosus is denser . Interestingly, the field traveled from south east to north north west rather than the norm of sw to ne.
