remrf
AZRF
As has been mentioned in other posts Arizona is a wonderful location for fabulous sunsets. I have been enjoying them for years and started to photograph them one year ago this month.
Those who have tried to get the perfect light for a landscape shot know the frustrations and pitfalls that await the unwary. More than once I drove away from Gate's Pass without having exposed a single 4x5 frame. And also more than once I packed up and was driving home when the sky suddenly was ablaze with a stunning example of what I was trying to capture.
I managed to get a few shots I thought were worth keeping but I had not captured the big Kahuna as it were. But I did learn a lot about what makes a sunset shot work (for me) and what doesn't.
The perfect sunset has lots of clouds. The high tight kind. Not the more mellow misty diffuse type. The perfect sunset is caught just as or just after the sun has dipped below the horizon when the light rays are traveling through the maximum amount of atmosphere and the prismatic effect of the air shifts the light well into the red spectrum. Then the light hits the clouds and plays colorful riotous havoc with the cloud density creating floating mystic islands in the sky.
I got one last week. I shot a series of shots from my driveway with the Rolleicord using Ektachrome 100. I could tell from the cloud formations earlier in the afternoon that this was going to be a stunner.
It was.
I just got back from picking up my slides.
I got it!
I'm going to have an 11x14 print made and have a scan done for my use.
I will post it on my website.
And the best thing about this is that there is a really good chance the next one I shoot will be even better.
Those who have tried to get the perfect light for a landscape shot know the frustrations and pitfalls that await the unwary. More than once I drove away from Gate's Pass without having exposed a single 4x5 frame. And also more than once I packed up and was driving home when the sky suddenly was ablaze with a stunning example of what I was trying to capture.
I managed to get a few shots I thought were worth keeping but I had not captured the big Kahuna as it were. But I did learn a lot about what makes a sunset shot work (for me) and what doesn't.
The perfect sunset has lots of clouds. The high tight kind. Not the more mellow misty diffuse type. The perfect sunset is caught just as or just after the sun has dipped below the horizon when the light rays are traveling through the maximum amount of atmosphere and the prismatic effect of the air shifts the light well into the red spectrum. Then the light hits the clouds and plays colorful riotous havoc with the cloud density creating floating mystic islands in the sky.
I got one last week. I shot a series of shots from my driveway with the Rolleicord using Ektachrome 100. I could tell from the cloud formations earlier in the afternoon that this was going to be a stunner.
It was.
I just got back from picking up my slides.
I got it!
I'm going to have an 11x14 print made and have a scan done for my use.
I will post it on my website.
And the best thing about this is that there is a really good chance the next one I shoot will be even better.
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schmoozit
Schmoozit good...
Good for you! Good things come with patience, yeah?
I hope you are going to have the slide scanned, and not the print. With something so nice, you may even want to spring for a real deal, no-holds-barred, best-'o-the-best, drum scan.
I hope you are going to have the slide scanned, and not the print. With something so nice, you may even want to spring for a real deal, no-holds-barred, best-'o-the-best, drum scan.
remrf
AZRF
That's what I'm going to find out tomorrow. What a real scan will cost. My scanner does pretty well with prints but a good scan is of course preferred.
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ch1
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This is great news. Sounds like you "nailed it"!
I do hope you can post a version of it here althought the sizing won't do it justice,
Having a house near Sabino Canyon on the east side, I've always gone up to B'aob Bab up on Catalina Highway for sunset shots. It will give you s-sets with the City lights.
But. folks keep telling me to go over to Gate's Pass.
Now you've inspired me.
As mentioned in earlier thread - please arrange to keep the clear weather through Theresa and my next visit (12/31 to 1/5) to our house out there!
I'm chompin' at the bit to get back out to Tucson. And this time, if the weather cooperates I'm trying Gates Pass for the sunset shots!!!
Merry Whatever,
George
I do hope you can post a version of it here althought the sizing won't do it justice,
Having a house near Sabino Canyon on the east side, I've always gone up to B'aob Bab up on Catalina Highway for sunset shots. It will give you s-sets with the City lights.
But. folks keep telling me to go over to Gate's Pass.
Now you've inspired me.
As mentioned in earlier thread - please arrange to keep the clear weather through Theresa and my next visit (12/31 to 1/5) to our house out there!
I'm chompin' at the bit to get back out to Tucson. And this time, if the weather cooperates I'm trying Gates Pass for the sunset shots!!!
Merry Whatever,
George
remrf
AZRF
My weather bug only extends to the 1st of Jan. but from what I can see it will still be clear and sunny but slightly cooler during your visit.
Enjoy
Enjoy