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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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