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Wow, that’s a crazy sky, Alec!
And in response to Hans’s “how broad”, here is an overhead “pano” on a day when contrails were really thick. Start from the bottom and scroll up, that’s how I took the picture.
Woo-hoo, lets’ roll!
Another good thing about this time of the year, at least for me, is that the Sun sets early while I am still in the office, high up, from where I have this view.
One of the problems is that what you see with your eyes is not what the camera captures by default (e.g. in the auto-everything mode). So what to do? I am learning that you can play with a few parameters (exposure compensation, white balance, probably others). So then why not use an editor afterwards? I think the idea is to stay true to what you saw,
Also, if it’s something really hard to notice, like a faint optical phenomenon, I would enhance the photo and just state it.
Me again with the upward lobes. Not as clear (and partly because of my poor focusing skills) but I think the upward tendency is there. I’m aiming 30-40 degrees above the horizontal.
Hygge, I have a zoom that goes to 300 mm focal distance, though (I am told) for the sensor in my camera, it is actually a 450 mm.
WRT up/down, both shots I posted were looking up at no more than 45 degrees. Hard to believe those lobes had no significant upward component. Hygge, from the way the airplane looks, your shot could be almost looking 90 degrees up.
Keelin, you are absolutely right! Beautiful.
Hans, yes, the video author explained in the text it’s a subsun, but the video title was dancing sundog, so why not play along? Your stray sundog is cute.
One day this past October, I am walking in the park, where I have a good view of the skies, and looking around, I see conditions conducive to CZAs. So I look up and, sure enough, there is one. Not outstanding but visible. I start taking pictures with the app. A man, curious, stops by and asks what am I taking pictures of. I just point and look up. He looks for a little while and then says: “Oooh, rainbow … but no rain!?”
An optical phenomenon, I explain. I think he was happy to learn something new.
Keeling, nice, a halo with colors! Did you look directly up to check for a CZA?
This is a lucky shot from a few weeks ago, the sun dog was very intense. Picture taken with iphone 6, not edited. When using the DSLR, I set the exposure compensation to some negative value to preserve the colors. Here it worked very well without tricks (other than a bit of cropping and whatever an iphone does under the covers).
Now I am a bit obsessed. Doing some google research, I find references to lobes or pendules, but all references are to things hanging down. Among others, I found a serious article:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wea.2765/full
which, interestingly, shows a picture of contrails exhibiting the same upward lobes, but does not mention them (maybe it does at some point, I did not read the whole article, TBH). (Do look at the link above, the picture is of WWII fighter plane contrails, quite unusual.)
So here is my shot of today with upward lobes. There is a certain regularity, which makes me think this may be a turbulence effect, rather than thermal (convection).
Finally, while doing this search, I found what appears to be a Thai Airlines commercial showing some nice contrail iridescence:
Hope you enjoy it.
I am looking at the pictures, and they are striking and beautiful, but something bothers me. I have never seen colors as intense at these. Could they all be photoshop’ed?
