Re: Pater Noster by Ysabella Brave

My humble response. Seems we were photographing the same sun.

Trivia: My video "A Kingly Job -- Burger King, That Is! was shot in the parking lot just before this video:

A Kingly Job -- Burger King That Is!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaB7J3v9WCE

BE CAREFUL: If you want to watch the sun realtime, safely from your computer, click on this Nasa link:

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/sunearthday/media_viewer/flash.html


People have asked my how I took these photos. The answer is very stupidly.

Remember in school being told never to look directly at the sun? A kid in my sixth grade class did and he wore an eyepatch for several months thereafter. Lucky not to have been blinded.

Well, that admonition goes doubly about looking directly at the sun through a camera lens. I could not see clearly out of my right eye for hours.

What I should have done was look though the LCD screen on the camera.

I did not use any special filters. The ring effect is a Newton Ring named after Sir Isaac Newton. It is caused by the refraction of light on the glass as you move the camera around. Eventually, you'll find the correct angel for the circular refraction. Anyone standing next to me looking into the sky would not have seen the ring.

I also have some Newton Ring video of a reflection in a pond, which I'll be putting up soon.

You'll get the same effect if you put a negative in between two regular sheets of glass and put them in an enlarger instead of using a negative carrier. You'll get rings in your image, which can, sometimes be quite interesting.

If you don't want Newton Rings you can use anti-Newton glass. This is glass that has been roughed a bit so that the light doesn't refract into rings. This is fine for an enlarger, but you wouldn't want to roughen the lens of your camera.

The camera I use is a Fuji Finepix S9100. I feel this is the best all around digital camera on the market. And, you can get it as low as $300 online. That's right, $300. It has a builtin wideangle-to-zoom lens. It shoots video at 30fps or 60fps. Shoot at 60fps and playback at 30fps and you've got very nice slowmotion video. It has all the professional features you'd expect, such as white balance, lots of shooting modes, etc.

One of the neatest features is a LDC screen that folds out. So, if you want to take a shot over your head you can fold out the LCD screen so you can see the shot and frame it. You can the LCD screen perpendicular to the camera body, so you can look down and frame pictures and take them without people realizing you're taking a photograph.

Don't forget you should put a uv filter on your lens to give you a bit more intense color, but also to protect your lens. A uv filter is $20 bucks, a scratched lens is hundreds. The other filter you should have is a polarizing filter. This will give you dark blue skies and also you can shoot in reflective surfaces (windows, water), turn the polarizer and get rid of a lot of glare.

Good luck, and if you have any questions don't hesitate to contact me. Amongst other things, I'm a professional photographer and will be glad to give you advice.

Remember, it's all fun and games until someone pokes an eye out, or in this case, blinds themselve stupidly looking directly at the sun through a camera.

Y

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[TRSF1]

awsome looks like Sonic game Rings :) ...like it

[yvettegr]

@TRSF1 Thank you. I've also gotten Newton Rings late in the evening during a setting sun in late July. They look very mysterious with it getting dark and the rings at the horizon because of the setting sun.

[riffroof]

Speaking of natural beauty, the evening twilight is incredible this time of year. On a clear night, 45-50 minutes after sundown, the southwest sky fades from ultramarine to cerulean blue, then brightens to bottle-green, umber and rose at the horizon, with the new moon and Venus setting. Maxfield Parrish couldn't paint it any prettier!

[yvettegr]

You should photograph or video that. Sounds beautiful. We're getting into that kind of sunset year. It's in January and a little later that the sky turns brilliant orange at sunset because of the angle of the sun and refraction of the light.

[riffroof]

Beautiful sky - beautiful photographs - thanks, yvettegr!

[yvettegr]

Thanks, riffroof. There's a lot of beauty in the world. Most people just don't look around and miss it.

[celestialsam]

This is just lovely.

[celestialsam]

Heh heh heh:P

[emovonego]

very bori ng

[hoffmann9471]

Ja, wonderful view , and safe here...

5*

[sarahlockettstewart]

I have tried to get some photos with this effect, but haven't gotten it quite this nicely. nice video. oh yeah - 5 stars, hombre!

[yvettegr]

It is, isn't it?