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Fantastique! Hans, sometimes I like to classify cloud pics into Phenomenal, Phantoms and Fantastique. Your Pic strikes me as a ” Fantastique”..real yet out of this world”. Definitely getting a Twilight Zone feel .
Then there is the Visual Metaphor.
” Minions”
BRAVO Hans! Many an encore I hope! Below is an example of something I do during monsoon; brave the 100f + with high humidity and explore the towering nimbus…with out rope,pinions nor spikes. Sometimes I go bare foot with zoom telephoto. Just know where the ants are. anyway, B&W turns these towering clouds into mountains, cliffs and valleys: oriental in orientation.
Sky Mountain of the Pileus Palace.
Haa! The Contrail question..maybe once a year I find them inspirational..okay, maybe twice a year. They do let me know the moisture content way up there. Long tail= high moisture compared to short tail,,which is telling for real cirrus. George has a point: its getting difficult to separate contrail from cirrus. I have certainly observed a whole sky taken over by contrail spred…and believe too many zeeny arcs are the result of contrail. But, like a certain president elect, they are there, deal with it…Twisted ? Yes,,now on to the contrail..,,heres me dealing with it…..
Roger,,Yes, not an ordinary formation. You have contrails in the sky, I venture ,what appears to be a comb for bad hair days is a section of contrail the winds are blowing to the left. Further down, closer to the sun and horizon, winds are pushing clouds and contrail in the same direction.
Hans,,,Intervalometer…thats the word..a stand alone interval timer..Canon makes a model or two .Nikon may make one,,and the accessory market has a few you can choose from. For Time Lapse movie making, they are a lot less expensive than the 5DR..Im not sure but the new Canon 80D may also have one built in..maybe not.A while back, at CAS’s original website,,a separate B&W Thread was created and maintained I’m not so sure one is necessary. For displaying pics its of little consequence to me, but for observing, a B&W Titled Thread makes them easy to find. So, SURE!
On underexposing; I shoot with the idea that I will process the pic. I have Adobe Lightroom and use it religiously. I shoot with what Adobe can do in mind. In other words..I don’t shoot with the idea of making a perfect shot right out of the camera. I like dodging and burning and contrast and tints and saturation..etc etc control work. Digital bends the techniques but is a lot more fun and inexpensive than film, light and chemical. So Shooting iridescence is all about bringing up the contrasts and saturation to ones liking. Iridescence close to the Sun is impossible to look at with the naked eye anyway, so the camera and processing is just as much the message as the messenger, imho. I do not feel bad or guilty about ” photoshopping” my pics. I’ve been known to ” help fix” other folk’s pics. I see it as..a Photograph..not reality. The craft is ” fixing”a Shot so that no one notices all the work you did on it to make it perfect…I guess what I am saying is…reality isn’t perfect, but a Photograph can be close. Adobe Lightroom is a great processing software package. Its not ” Adobe Photoshoppe” which is closer to a ” Printing Shop” analogy,,rather Lightroom is closer to the old school ” Photo Lab” analogy. But there are plenty of bells and whistles with Lightroom to keep one exploring for a long time. Just remember,,what are we trying to communicate with a picture..
And yes..I have a couple of years of backlog and of course everyday forward with clouds in the sky just adds to the album.
MEL
Thank you Kristy and George for Your Kind Words. I have a color version taken a moment after this one. I should send it to Ian and get it in the gallery..?
Hans,,Nice work!..Photographing iridescence is a bit tricky. I’ve been spoiled here in the desert. It seems like just about any alto cloud passing near the sun iridescence is manifested but thin stratus in its variations produce a lot of color when near the sun.It looks like you figured out the exposure problem as well..I start at least 1/2 an f stop underexposed and may go all the way to 1.5 to 2 F stops under exposed..Depends on how near to the sun I get. And there is the danger..the sun . And thats another reason I like a Good tele zoom. I can zoom in and keep the sun out and if need be, slowly zoom out, while panning around the sun picking off the wild colors.
Nice set up you have. I currently am using the 6D with a 28-300 lens and have a 17-40 when I need the extra wide. Yet, Im looking at the new 5’s ; the one with the built in Time Lapse (5R) is driving me crazy.Its been awhile since any one posted iridescence. Myself and Andy Kirk use to post quite a bit of the iridescence. Attached is a shot of a good patch of it. With the new upload ability now everyone can jump in the fun.
thx for the link H..a good listen there. Yes, I like that clouds can take me to the edge of what I know and peer into what don’t know. Perhaps that is what connects us all…to go to the last extent of what we know and begin to see what we don’t know. When i became interested in Surrealism ( sur-real, meaning extra reality, beyond the day to day reality) I had physical reaction when facing what I didn’t know. Even to this day, upon occasion, that trembling from being ” freed” serves as a marker to entering the ” mystery” . It can be exhilarating,.it can be nauseating. But the telltale is,,as with photographing clouds,,I lose all sense of time. Wouldn’t that be something,,What we call our Imagination..is just our quantum selves..
George,, Good Eye! May you chance upon many more wonders and mysteries! Thats my point. Yes there is all the classification ..with grades of 1-10 for each genera,species and variety, yet its all in movement and transition. Seconds separate true and false. The little cloud is no where near the same in a minute. It appears to me to be within seconds of condensing out of atmosphere. Little And very young. Somewhat transparent gives it age,imho. Therefore I’d assume its on its way to cumulus as around it. Perhaps a cumulus humilis would fit as a classification.
Yes, I am fascinated by how undulations juxtaposed by nature create texture, depth, space, and direction in 2 dimensional photographs. Thanks Hans!
L, Green/CASAttached is a similar phenom I caught some time ago sliding across north Phoenix. The sight connected to the darker tones of ” Mystery”. within me. By the time I got the camera on it, it was being teased by updrafts. Yes, of course a local fog bank cut loose from its moorings.
Like Finding A Sea Shell On The Beach
Hans,,,Intervalometer…thats the word..a stand alone interval timer..Canon makes a model or two .Nikon may make one,,and the accessory market has a few you can choose from. For Time Lapse movie making, they are a lot less expensive than the 5DR..Im not sure but the new Canon 80D may also have one built in..maybe not.
Hans,,Nice work!..Photographing iridescence is a bit tricky. I’ve been spoiled here in the desert. It seems like just about any alto cloud passing near the sun iridescence is manifested but thin stratus in its variations produce a lot of color when near the sun.
L, Green/CAS
