The day is ending too soon! TOOO much to get done before I leave Tuesday for a conference. So far today, I've finished grading two sets of students' papers (yay!) and started two of the talks. I looked up about 4:00 and noticed it was getting dark so I grabbed my camera to get outside for at least a few minutes before the sun set. I walked a few blocks to a large field to catch the sun as it was a brilliant sky. I liked these three showing it as it dipped below the trees and hung just above the rooftops.
You might like my owl in extras: http://365project.org/taffy/the-also-ran-ph/2013-12-01
I love this sequence! I always thought it would be so much more powerful to show the progression of the sunset through the lens, but then I just end up picking my favorite shot to post... this works really well.
@rachelwithey Thanks Rachel. I took about 8 shots lasting 1 minute and 40 seconds. So these three fell within that range. I can reconstruct which ones were in the collage if you need more fine grained info. Best guess -- about 10 seconds apart or so. Not much more than that.
@rachelwithey If you're going to do this, one lesson learned that I didn't do and wish I had: even if you don't need it for steadiness, I wish I'd had it on a tripod or at least was more careful about standing in the exact same spot. While not a big deal, I don't like the way this lined up. Second thing, I would take several shots as another cool idea would be to have the tree in the same spot in one tall image and then to the right in three images, show the sun going down. OR, if you know how to layer (which I don't), layer in the sun onto the tree shot. Anyway, just some ideas but some are beyond my skill level. Can't wait to see what you do with it!
@archaeofrog Katie, thanks for noticing the framing. I rarely use them, but worked at t his one to try to use it to bring our eyes into the color of the sun (and avoid calling attention to it being slightly off in alignment vertically).
