Believe it or not, the trade winds blow dust from the Sahara desert clear across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. Here's a few shots from yesterday's sunrise. CC appeciated.

Great captures!!! Where is the location?
Jack

Nice colors!! you have dust all over your sensor

Loco

Excellent pair of images, really diggin the colors in the first.

Mike

huh, that's wild!

allstarimaging wrote:
Great captures!!! Where is the location?
Jack

Thanks Jack. San Juan, Puerto Rico. More specificaly, Isla Verde, about two miles east of the airport, on the beach, eight flights up, from my balcony.

Harvey

locoalvarez38 wrote:
Nice colors!! you have dust all over your sensor

Loco

Glad you liked the colors..... they were helped a LOT by the SR Gold N Blue, as that Sahara dust drains most of the color. When I looked at these at 100%, I thought I saw incredible dust as well, but by comparing both shots, I'm thinking the spots are birds. I'll have to go back for a second look.

Harvey

mike717 wrote:
Excellent pair of images, really diggin the colors in the first.

Mike

Thanks for the comment Mike. You know, I had these up for an hour or so, noticed about firty guys looked at them, and got no comments. Figured, might as well delete these, and try again...... so it was really great seeing all these comments come up all of a sudden. I knew I really liked the shots, but was beginning to think it was mostly due to an over-rev-ed imagination on my part.

Harvey

floris wrote:
huh, that's wild!

Yeah, dust from 3000 miles away, all across the Atlantic. Go figure. Raises hell with allergies here in Puerto Rico. Makes me wonder what kind of weird stuff might be in that African Sahara dust

You know, I had these up for an hour or so, noticed about firty guys looked at them, and got no comments. Figured, might as well delete these, and try again......
I think there's an unwritten rule that there has to be at least a minimum 100 views before anyone can respond to a post. Be patient.
BTW is "firty" between 30 and 40 or 40 and 50

mike717 wrote:
You know, I had these up for an hour or so, noticed about firty guys looked at them, and got no comments. Figured, might as well delete these, and try again......
I think there's an unwritten rule that there has to be at least a minimum 100 views before anyone can respond to a post. Be patient.
BTW is "firty" between 30 and 40 or 40 and 50 :D


Mike. Behave yourself
Tim

mike717 wrote:
You know, I had these up for an hour or so, noticed about firty guys looked at them, and got no comments. Figured, might as well delete these, and try again......
I think there's an unwritten rule that there has to be at least a minimum 100 views before anyone can respond to a post. Be patient.
BTW is "firty" between 30 and 40 or 40 and 50

Actually, "firty" comes in somewhere between sixty and sebenty in the average stale ale, err... male. That's just about the time it all hits the fan - the teeth fall out, the color leaves the hair, the spelling goes to hell, and syllables get all screwed up, and worst of all - you don't even memeber ta git embar-assed !! It's great, just wait 'til ya git here, yer gonna luv it. I think. If I remember currectly

Herby
......... or was it.... Oh what the hell, Herby's good enuf fur now. I've never been good with names either.

Hi Harvey,

The first image is a knockout. Very dramatic, brilliant.

Bob

No one said anything because they were speechless....as I am...I can only say..GORGEOUS!!

Excellent colours! I'm starting to think I should take some sunrise shots here in Dubai now! We get those colours most mornings with the dust in the air, especially in summer time when it heats up....

You've motivated me! Let's see if the 5am alarm call does the same!

Very nice, Harvey. Love the colors in the first. Very nice comps on both.

Cheers,
Ed

The colors in the first shot are quite amazing and the simple comp works quite well.

Alan

Alan, Ed, and Bob ........ thanks for the comments on the comp. The more shots I take, the more I come to appreciate the power of simplicity. I try to concentrate on simplicity whenever I remember, but it in this case, there was no need to remember anythng..... the scene was just so, well ........ simple. I suppose I could have managed to screw it up if I had complicated it by using a wider angle lens, and including more details of other stuff, but I didn't. Now that I think of it, I guess I must have been going for "simple", which is why I used the 400 on a 1.3 crop. I just wanted a simple sun.

One thing amazed me after I took this shot ........ in spite of the fact that I was shooting directly into the sun, this shot came from a single shot, with a single conversion - no layering, blending, or ND grads. That's the power of that Sahara dust in the air. It seems to act like nature's ND grad. Even though the dust is not visible to the naked eye, it is powerful enough in it's ND effect that it actually brought the sun down in brightness to a level that actually allowed some detail and color in the sun, while still giving a decent exposure to the rest of the scene.

I was actually shooting 7 shot brackets, figuring I'd have to layer and blend to come out with a decent result, but it just wasn't necessary - a single exposure did the trick. Of course, had I not been bracketing, and taking so many shots, I'd probably not have had the necessary selection of exposures to choose from, so in that sense, the multiple shot bracketing certainly helped. I probably took a total of 150 shots, so I had a pretty good pool to select from.

Thanks again for the comments,

Harvey

Fantastic shots,

I prefer the colors in the first one, but prefer the composition in the second one....

Mike

Michael Marsh wrote:
Fantastic shots,

I prefer the colors in the first one, but prefer the composition in the second one....

Mike



I'm with you on prefering the comp in the second one Mike. In fact, I messed with trying to crop the first in an effort to pull the comp a little more towards the second one, but no matterf what I did, can't say I really saw an improvement.

Although most seem to prefer the colors in the first, overall, I somehow like the second better, because of the comp. I was switching between various settings on the SR Gold N Blue during the course of shooting, and I need to go back and see if I have the second comp with different filter settings. Or maybe I can do some adjustment in LR to make the colors work a little better for most. As I think about it now, I was actually going for an enhanced yellow look, and not the colors I got in the first shot. But when I saw the colors in the first, I was surprised at how much I liked them.
Just goes to show the value of messing around with different settings/comps etc. A lot of times you wind up with something surprising that works a lot better than the original intention.

I shot these with the MK3 (not the "s" version) I figure that 10 fps goes a long way in enhancing dumb luck !!

Thanks again for your thoughts,

Harvey

Michael Marsh wrote:
Fantastic shots,
I prefer the colors in the first one, but prefer the composition in the second one....
Mike


+1.
Lovely shots, and I would definitely clone/heal out the spots/birds.

Barry

Thanks Barry, and guess what? Turns out the "birds" are on my sensor after all. A whole flock of the buggers !!

I don't see how you guys are able to see them though, as I have to look at the original at 100% before I can see them. Wish I had your eyesight.

Thanks again,

Harvey