Pre-Eclipse Sunset / Moonrise shots

[iceman (Mike)]

The clouds that spoiled the first phase and a half of the eclipse, provided a brilliant colourful sunset.

Here's some shots from yesterday afternoon. A lot of them are similar in look and feel, but it was so beautiful it was hard to put the camera down.

ISO100, AV mode, f/11 (mostly), Sigma 17-70mm on Canon 350D.

The one with the moon just over the horizon (first image, can't see it in the thumbnail) was at 70mm, the rest were at 17mm.

The AV mode underexposed most of them, so PP included levels and saturation, some a bit of contrast.

Thanks for looking.

[rogerg (Roger)]

Nice.

The clouds that spoiled our entire eclipse weren't nearly as spectacular

[DJVege]

Great shots, Mike! I'd use them as my desktop background!

[h0ughy (David)]

wonderful colouring in those shots

[robin]

Mike, I'd like to see you do a series of shots looking down that jetty at various times of the day, various weather & lighting conditions. Same spot, same camera height...nice pics indeed
BTW...that 350D is getting some serious use isnt it!

[iceman (Mike)]

Thanks for the comments guys.

Robin that's a nice idea, and would make a nice sequence if the sky participated with some nice high clouds that change colour at dusk and dawn.

I love my 350D! Wish it was a 5D though

[robin]

You could always put an EOS-1 Ds Mark 2 on your wish list Mike. Think what you could do with 16.7mp!

[leon]

Now there nice images Mike, that jetty really gives the images some prespective and leads you out to the water, great work

Leon