Photography Thread
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There were a few bursts but mainly further north. The Glendale app showed a few recorded sightings on the south coast and in Cornwall but I’m dubious about those. Loads reported in Scotland and Northern England. Naked eye sightings are rare in the south. This time last year I’d never seen the aurora but since going to Norway and seeing them around this time last year I’ve managed to witness them twice. However, those two were particularly intense. Most of the time for us it’s going to be a case of pointing the camera north when the levels are high and seeing if it shows anything.
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Saw a photo of aurora at Haytor Rocks from 9.40 last night. Not strong and probably not visible to the eye plus obviously a nice dark location but it was there.
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I had a brief look outside last night, but the Beeb was correct, cloudy. The previous strong aurora lit the sky up red (by naked eye) above my house. I packed a tripod and camera and went down to the beach. On arrival, it appeared to have subsided. There was still a subtle green and red glow, but not the same bold colour at home. I took a couple of pics @16mm f3.5 15 seconds which picked up the colour, but the sea looked too dark and overall boring. I did wonder if it looked bolder above the house against the blackness of the roof.
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TBH, I'm not really interested if it's not visible to the naked eye.
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It’s a photography thread. I thought some people might like to try and photograph it.
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For sure, it's just my personal take that I like to photograph things that I can see... it's remarkable normally how hard it is under certain conditions (especially challenging ones such as at night), so I'm just less interested in things that the naked eye can't see, as far as my own photography is concerned. I'll accept that the south west of England near a city isn't the best place for 'wow' aurorae.
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Gnarly ancient oaks and mossy boulders. I took this at the edge of the wood, looking out. That way there was a bit more light filtering through and the contrasting colour of the bracken from the hill behind made the trees stand out better. Plenty more compositions from these woods, but time/light limited, I only took this and a slightly wider version.
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Hardest thing to shoot in photography is woodland imo. Hard to get a composition that isn't just clutter.
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I’d go along with that on the whole, but certain scenes, are just busy by their very nature.
I reckon, ten hours in a bird hide, waiting for a Lesser Spotted Something or Other to pass by, might challenge woodland photography for difficulty.
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Birdlife photography isn’t hard. It just needs very expensive kit and a whole lot of patience. I don’t have patience. 😉
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I made the effort to pop into the wood this morning, before all the leaves drop. Being permanently shrouded in low, featureless grey cloud, probably left very few other photographic opportunities elsewhere.
A few weeks earlier.
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Yep, I didn't find much on my ride down to Budders either.
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I find that these are perfect conditions for waterfalls as there are no harsh highlights to deal with, and the sky is generally irrelevant.
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Giant soft-box lighting, essentially.
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This cropped up on Facebook (Stefan Liebermann), and I admit it leaves me cold.
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Mine are going to look drab compared to that above.^^
More autumn themed stuff. Grey skies are just the ticket for macros, too, especially with little wind about. The seed heads wouldn’t look out of place in the Alien franchise.
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I think there's too much post-production - the cliffs look completely flat, like a painted stage set. Also it feels like he couldn't decide whether to shoot the falls or the aurora or the pool as the main focus and they are all competing for attention.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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And I'll be honest... it looks like AI... I suspect you could have got a similar result using it, and it would have looked similarly unrealistic (or, dare I say, bordering on the dishonest, though obviously I wasn't there to judge that).
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Thanks. A difficult comparison between macro and aurora, but personally I feel the drama level has been pushed to 11 (the aurora, not the seed heads).
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Nothing of any particular merit, but just testing the replacement Sony. Seems OK.
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Nice to feel the sun on my back while on my bike today, even if it wasn't as warm as it looks.
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We won't talk about the cloud either side of this window. The window which made me stop. 😉
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Even a five-minute window here would be welcome to break the Anticyclonic Gloom (I'm not sure if that's more appropriate for the weather or our moods).
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I said I wouldn't talk about it. Never happened. I live a virtually perfect life online (like everyone else). 😉
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You beat me to it.
Even worse, the anticyclonic gloom turned to persistent drizzle today. Yippee, Thursday's forecast has some of these 🌥.
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None here till Saturday (briefly) and then Monday (briefly), but at least I might get to the second half of the month with no heating... miserably warm.
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I'm just making my perfect online presence match yours from yesterday. 😉
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