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Beautiful mountain to climb bare footed Michael.
Reading about contrail in anther thread I think the next one will be appropriate. I took this picture just a few days ago. The contrail was dissipating rather fast and it also formed some von Karman vortex like patterns before disappearing.
Barbed wire
Contrails, I see a lot of them living in the neighborhood of an airport. Indeed sometimes difficult to separate from cirrus. Here is one on fire (no photoshopping).
My apologies. After I wrote my former answer I suddenly became aware that I must be terribly wrong. Lesson one for me: think twice (oops).
When you look the sun in the face you can see the kind of halos I mentioned and of which I gave an example. When the sun is behind you I can’t tell what you saw.
Google didn’t help so far. I found one example of an antisolar arc, but no tunnel-like phenomenon.
Nevertheless it is a fantastic story Alun wrote. I end with the same question Alun put forward: who knows what it was?
What a beautiful story Alun. Especially ze french part of it!
Did he really belief it was an angel? I do belief “zis ange lead many to zair det” when you are skiing and enchanted by the sight, but the explanation is a materialistic one nevertheless as beautiful as such.
Apparently there was a lot of diamond dust in the air, That are tiny ice crystals that can form in the air naturally under the right (cold) conditions (like clouds do) or artificially by snow cannons. The sun was behind you and you saw maybe several kind of ice halos. It must have been a spectacular view, I wish I had seen this.
In the next link you find another example together with a good explanation of the phenomenon;
On this site you will find a lot more information about all kinds of halos and optical phenomena. I can recommend it. Have fun with it.
This one is not photoshopped. Doing so gave no satisfying results because of the part that is already ovexposed.
Still a flaming lion can be seen.
Thank you Michael. Intervalometer is the word I googled immediately around and found a lot of information. Later to decide.
Thanks for your tips for using Lightroom. Acually I have it already installed but still use Photoshop elements. I think I have to develop some more experience with it. It has endless possibilities.
It is funny that Lightroom is like old school developing pictures in a darkroom. In old school days a good picture was also manipulated. Only the tools were different. So I left my hesitation to photoshop behind me and try to keep close to reality which is also a matter of taste. For pictures of iridescence I found out that photoshopping often gives better matches with reality than the original picture. The original often – but not always – seems to miss the splendor. So forward we go!
Thanks, I like that Hygge. It makes me feel free to use this thread as an excuse to add this link:
Eric Verlinden’s new therory of gravity
In some way also a tribute, although still living.
Thank you both for your comments and…. wow George, I never saw a better time-lapse before. The movement takes pace with the music. The film is really well structured. Love it.
I would like to have the time lapse feature also on my camera. Since it is not built in I have been looking for other solutions, but I think I need advice on that one. I read that the built in timelapse on the 5D is driving Michael crazy and I admit it drives me crazy too. The budget is the problem, so maybe another solution outside the camera will help.
As to iridescence, it is nice to read that Michael likes the B&W approach as well as the colorful iridescence.( Nice example you added Michael). It turns out that we have this in common.
I recognize the problems with capturing iridescence and the way you use the telezoom, Michael. Furthermore I experienced that the result always seems to be a pale reflection of what I really saw through the lens. In the beginning I hesitated to add contrast by photoshopping, but I discovered that the right bit of photoshopping gives a result that seems to be more real than the unshopped version. Our brains do clearly different things with contrast then a programmed digital camera.
This summer I saw a lot of iridescence. Some of the pictures will come up later. Let’s jump in the fun, like Michael said.
There are also some B&W’s to post. And that makes me think that there is an opportunity for a separate gallery with only B&W’s. There must be certainly enough material.
Thank you George.
I use a Canon EOS 7D. This one was taken with a telezoom (100-400 mm) at 400 mm. It reaches far.
