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12/05/2008 03:13:20 AM · #26 |
Rise: 9:55 AM AKSt Set: 3:43 PM AKST
Let's see, I start work at 8:30am, get off work at 7:30pm. Hmmmm I don't foresee me entering this one. Especially since the forecast is for clouds, more clouds, and more clouds.
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12/05/2008 04:27:26 AM · #27 |
Originally posted by TrollMan:
I'm on business in Sweden at the moment - incidentally in a small place called "Trollhättan" (no kidding!). I brought my camera and have several chances during sunset/rise times but it's been pouring rain since I arrived so I'm crossing my fingers that I'll get a break while I'm here :)
Starbanana: Let me know if you decide to come to Norway and I'll give you some pointers on where to go for pictures. |
Will do : )
And Trollhatten - it ALWAYS seems to rain there! Went there for a wedding in September and it chucked it down most of the weekend.
Im preparing myself to get out of bed early in the morning to try and get my sunrise shot.. Followed swiftly by a bacon sandwich |
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12/05/2008 04:47:22 AM · #28 |
Originally posted by mpeters:
Here is another cool link for sun rise/set, moon rise/set and tides for most areas. Particularly helpful for you ocean photogs. www.saltwatertides.com It loads quickly on a mobile device. |
Here's some more nice one's specially for mobile phones. They load really fast.
//weather.mobi
//aviation.mobi
//marine.mobi
//wxsys.mobi
Ps. check out some of the thousands of .mobi sites for mobile phones here:
//mtld.mobi/showcase
Oh...they work fine on your desktop PC as well by the way. Here's a good friend of mine's .mobi photographic site
//erwingroen.mobi
Message edited by author 2008-12-05 04:53:17. |
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12/05/2008 05:49:33 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by Starbanana:
Originally posted by TrollMan:
I'm on business in Sweden at the moment - incidentally in a small place called "Trollhättan" (no kidding!). I brought my camera and have several chances during sunset/rise times but it's been pouring rain since I arrived so I'm crossing my fingers that I'll get a break while I'm here :)
Starbanana: Let me know if you decide to come to Norway and I'll give you some pointers on where to go for pictures. |
Will do : )
And Trollhatten - it ALWAYS seems to rain there! Went there for a wedding in September and it chucked it down most of the weekend.
Im preparing myself to get out of bed early in the morning to try and get my sunrise shot.. Followed swiftly by a bacon sandwich |
What a coincidence, I was in Trollhättan for a friends wedding recently too!
 TrollMan, if you've not been down to the lock yet I suggest going as it's pretty impressive!
I think I'm going to go for sunset, weather prediction for tomorrow is sunny, which is good, and -2 deg C, which is not so good :) |
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12/05/2008 07:53:57 AM · #30 |
| I'm staying at my parents home in the northern tip of lower Michigan and let me tell you, there is no sun! It's been snowing for over a week. It was clear last night, I saw the moon and stars so I thought...maybe this morning but no...another snowy, gray day. |
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12/05/2008 01:40:31 PM · #31 |
The nice thing about this time of the year is the sun rises so late. If I'm headed to the coast 90 minutes away, I don't have to get up at 3:30AM to get there in time.
For those wanting to calculate where in the sky the sun will be at sunrise/sunset, you can use this NOAA calculator. I'm combining it with Google earth to figure out exactly where I need to be Saturday before I even get there. Love it. |
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12/05/2008 04:08:13 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by bobonacus:
What a coincidence, I was in Trollhättan for a friends wedding recently too!
TrollMan, if you've not been down to the lock yet I suggest going as it's pretty impressive! |
Wow! And I thought Trollhättan was such a small place and two of you have already been there! Cool! I go there once or twice per month so if any of you are visiting again please let me know and we'll hook up for a brew or something.
Yup - done the locks! :) I was actually invited to a private viewing of the opening of the locks to see the water rise in the channel. It was amazing! Unfortunately I only had my iPhone camera at the time :( |
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12/05/2008 04:49:37 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by TrollMan:
Originally posted by bobonacus:
What a coincidence, I was in Trollhättan for a friends wedding recently too!
TrollMan, if you've not been down to the lock yet I suggest going as it's pretty impressive! |
Wow! And I thought Trollhättan was such a small place and two of you have already been there! Cool! I go there once or twice per month so if any of you are visiting again please let me know and we'll hook up for a brew or something.
Yup - done the locks! :) I was actually invited to a private viewing of the opening of the locks to see the water rise in the channel. It was amazing! Unfortunately I only had my iPhone camera at the time :( |
I doubt that it matters to anyone besides Doc Achoo, but I visited Trollhättan in the summer of 1958 :-)
R.
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12/05/2008 05:02:30 PM · #34 |
| It looks like a BEAUTY of a sunset out there right now, but do I feel like getting bundled up, driving down to the bridge, walking to the middle, taking a pic & coming back.....? No. :/ ooooh well :P there's always tomorrow! |
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12/05/2008 05:20:43 PM · #35 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
I doubt that it matters to anyone besides Doc Achoo, but I visited Trollhättan in the summer of 1958 :-) |
Holy moly - that's just weird Bear. This almost warrants it's own Trollhättan thread... :P |
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12/05/2008 06:02:31 PM · #36 |
| so does the sun have to be in the picture? Or can it be taken just after the sun has set? |
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12/05/2008 06:07:29 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by Tez:
so does the sun have to be in the picture? Or can it be taken just after the sun has set? |
I sure as HELL hope the latter, LOL...
R.
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12/05/2008 11:04:14 PM · #38 |
| I am pretty sure that it can be just after sunset.. After all some of the best images are created well after the sun has set. I love to shoot anywhere from a half hour to an hour after the sun has set. My image that I submitted was shot a half hour after sunset. So good luck!! |
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12/05/2008 11:36:13 PM · #39 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by Tez:
so does the sun have to be in the picture? Or can it be taken just after the sun has set? |
I sure as HELL hope the latter, LOL...
R. |
Wait, this isn't a twilight challenge. :P |
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12/05/2008 11:41:00 PM · #40 |
Your right it is not a twilight challenge. But was there a time frame set before and after the actual setting or rising of the sun? If so it was not explained.. I assume people are going to use common sense on this one. Now if we see a lot of images with a strong blue cast with a lot of stars in them... That is a different matter.
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12/06/2008 12:21:51 AM · #41 |
Originally posted by jtlee321:
Your right it is not a twilight challenge. But was there a time frame set before and after the actual setting or rising of the sun? If so it was not explained.. I assume people are going to use common sense on this one. Now if we see a lot of images with a strong blue cast with a lot of stars in them... That is a different matter. |
This shot was only 39 minutes before sunrise. How close do you have to be? :)
Plus don't forget people can be shooting away from the sun as in shooting the sunrise looking over the Pacific. |
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12/06/2008 12:53:39 AM · #42 |
| I think I need to do a sunrise reflected in water drops. With some swoopy clouds overhead. That should cover the bases. Unfortunately, that's not my entry. |
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12/06/2008 01:22:57 AM · #43 |
I personally love that shot DrAchoo.. I would obviously assume that it is a sunrise or sunset shot by looking at the warm tones on the horizon.. And if you are shooting out over the Pacific during sunrise, I would assume that maybe something of the subject would reflect the warm light from the east. My point was that there is no definite time frame other than being sometime around the sun rising or setting. And at this time of the year up here in the Pacific Northwest the sunrises and sunsets are a little longer due to the low trajectory of the sun. I will be the first to admit I wanted a shot with some stars in it.. But in the end I settled on something else.. My entry was taken 38 minutes after sunset.
Here is one taken 56 minutes before sunrise..
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Originally posted by jtlee321:
Your right it is not a twilight challenge. But was there a time frame set before and after the actual setting or rising of the sun? If so it was not explained.. I assume people are going to use common sense on this one. Now if we see a lot of images with a strong blue cast with a lot of stars in them... That is a different matter. |
This shot was only 39 minutes before sunrise. How close do you have to be? :)
Plus don't forget people can be shooting away from the sun as in shooting the sunrise looking over the Pacific. |
Message edited by author 2008-12-06 01:30:32.
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12/07/2008 08:28:39 AM · #44 |
So out of 14 chances my best sunset shot is
lol, had a location lined up, 20 minutes journey ... halfway there Hazels says, "go left here, it's a shortcut!" ..... 45 minutes later we get to where we were going as the sun dips below the horizon ;) .... shot some pics of the moon instead!!
Off for the final chance now, luckily the sun is still out! |
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12/07/2008 08:55:14 AM · #45 |
I live in an area (Estes Park, CO) which boasts 330 days of sunshine per year. Ironically, only one of the days of the contest period had a day with moderate clearing at sunrise (68% cloud cover). On this last morning for a sunrise, a mountain wave cloud is blocking to the east out over Greeley. That's bad luck for me. I have an entry, but it's not what I had hoped for. We are always at the mercy of the light (or lack thereof).
Also, living in a mountain valley is a challenge. The sun sets on the continental divide about 30 minutes before it hits the western horizon, which I cannot see. It's a long drive to go around to the western slopes for a sunset shot. The weather has been poor this week. Hope others had much better luck. |
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12/07/2008 09:20:15 AM · #46 |
There was an amazing, killer sunset photo opportunity of Mt. Rainier south of the Seattle, Washington USA area last week that was so incredible that it was television newsworthy.
If any DPCer in the Seattle area captured that scene and entered it then they will have the blue ribbon locked up. I only saw it on the news but it was one of the most amazing sunsets I've ever seen... and I've photographed lots of sunrises and sunsets. And what I saw I think came from a mounted video camera on top of one of Seattle's skyscrapers.
This shot isn't it but was taken from the same perspective as the one I saw on the news. Last week's sunset was orders of magnitude better than this one:
Sunset over Mt. Rainier
Message edited by author 2008-12-07 09:22:37. |
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12/07/2008 09:46:20 AM · #47 |
sunsets/sunrises are usually my least favorited subject to shoot really, but i think i might have a slightly oobie-ish shot which i like, so i'll give it a shot. i'm prepared for some dnmc comments...
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12/07/2008 10:26:21 AM · #48 |
Icky weather and here rise/set lasts oh about 5 minutes this time of year.
I think this could well be the only all-Icelandic challenge on dpc! :-) |
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12/07/2008 10:38:49 AM · #49 |
Originally posted by snaffles:
I think this could well be the only all-Icelandic challenge on dpc! :-) |
actually at around this time of the year in iceland, the sun barely rises above the horizon, and in some parts you won't even get to see the sun for a period of over 2 month.
at the southern coast there a great condition sometimes though, which is because if you get lucky the sunrise takes place between 11am to 1pm and then fades in to sunset between until 3 or 4pm, where inbetween the sun reaches an angle of barely 10-20° above the horizon.
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12/07/2008 12:19:19 PM · #50 |
Originally posted by snaffles:
Icky weather and here rise/set lasts oh about 5 minutes this time of year. |
Actually, in the winter months the further north you are the LONGER the sunset or sunrise lasts, because the sun is so far south all the action is really oblique. By contrast, if you live on the equator, anywhere in the tropics really, the sun absolutely PLUMMETS below the horizon. Almost without exception, all the best sunset/sunrise shots in my portfolio are fall/winter/spring shots, with probably over half of them in the winter.
R.
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