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Earlier today, I used a #MacroLens to #photograph a subject close up. Now I switched to a #telephoto lens with a #FocalLength of 400 mm to capture objects effectively at #infinity.
You may have seen some of my #sunset #photographs before and, yes, it's the same #horizon and the same old #Sun but this one caught my eye because of its sharpness. There wasn't a cloud in the vicinity of the Sun when it was setting. You can see the bright, smoothly varying #yellow, #gold and #orange of the #sky contrasting the dark, sharp #silhouettes of the #trees in the #foreground. Also there's that mobile phone mast too.
#Cropping the image around our local #star, you see the #trees in what I'm calling #ExtremeSilhouette as the blinding light of the Sun seem to flow around solid wood and renders it invisible with only the ends of branches seemingly suspended in mid air disconnected to the trunk and giving the Sun the appearance of having spiky hair.
This morning I posted a moonset. It has largely been a #sunny #day and as #sunset approaches, I #photographed the #Sun, which led to #silhouettes in the #foreground and plenty of #LensFlare. Still cold out there with the #temperature a couple of degrees above #freezing but bone dry.
How can you capture the essence of #fog in a photograph? I often associate it with dull #greys but when the #Sun's light is diffusing through it, it adds some #colour which attenuates quite smoothly into the familiar gloom. But I do also like the layering effect of the #foreground, #middleground and #background with objects disappearing into the #haze.
Two #photographs taken at #dusk. The first is just before #sunset with a #house and #trees in the #foreground in #silhouette. I like the #LensFlare in this #image.
The next was taken about a quarter of an hour later when the #Sun had passed over the #horizon. This illuminates to #clouds nicely. You can also see an #aeroplane and its short #contrail too.
A #day can a difference. Yesterday's #sunset was following a very settled day but today there were showers at the end of the day and so the #sky was a bit more dramatic. You could say it was more "atmospheric", dramatically anyway. The framing makes the #cloud in the #foreground look a bit menacing but in reality it was quite high and the showers had passed.
More #DramaInTheClouds. The #picture changes minute by minute and I think these #photographs show the interaction of #AirPressure, #Moisture and #Light.
First, a #panorama, looking #west.
Next, zooming in to see layered #clouds in #greys and #PaleGolds. You can see the cellular structure of the clouds.
Finally, here's the interplay between #foreground #silhouetted #roofs and #background clouds on the #horizon.
