The good weather is well and truly gone now, so here’s a sunrise from a few days ago to remind you what the sky above the grey clouds and rain looks like. 🙂
Aperture | ƒ/10 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 62mm |
ISO | 640 |
Shutter speed | 1/80s |
I was there too
I went to the reservoir in Inniscarra yesterday evening to capture the sunset. It had been a glorious day and I saw there would be a smattering of cloud at sunset, which might make for a dramatic picture.
As it happened, there was cloud, but it was mostly at the horizon in a thick, impenetrable bank. The sun set several minutes too early, with barely a glimmer of yellow, but twenty minutes later I was treated to a spectacular display of colour.
AFAIK, it’s caused by the sun shining through the atmosphere at the underside of high altitude clouds on the horizon. If you use the mobile app, Clear Outside, look for high altitude cloud. If there’s a lot of it, and not much low cloud, you’ll probably have a nice sunset. 🙂
Aperture | ƒ/8 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 33mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/6s |
So many people gathered to watch the Eiffel Tower in Paris, but if they looked behind them, they’d see this magnificent reflection of the Tower.
The Grand Palais Éphémère was empty and dark when I was there, so it reflected perfectly the Eiffel Tower in its windows.
I have to admit, the last time I was in Paris, some 23 years ago, I don’t remember the Grand Palais Éphémère being there at all, but back then I didn’t have the equipment or skill to take a photo like this anyway, and never thought to visit the Eiffel Tower in the evening! It wasn’t in the guide book!
Aperture | ƒ/8 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 16mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/1.3s |
The colours of a sunset captured in the sweep of an ICM photo. Dark to bright orange and a bit of dark at the bottom where the roof of a house was.
I wish Adobe would use their AI to do an automated spot healing tool. My sensor needs cleaning and there were lots of specks that needed to be cloned out in this photo. They can already highlight them. They just need to go that one final step…
Aperture | ƒ/25 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 130mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/2s |
The Eiffel Tower garden is thronged with people watching the sun set behind the massive structure. The sky was clear and it was a hot night. People were sitting in almost every available space waiting for the light show that made the Tower sparkle on the hour.
Aperture | ƒ/8 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 31mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/8s |
Here is something you may not have seen before. Horizontal rainbows or “fire rainbows” are a rare phenomenon that happen more often closer to the equator than Ireland is.
Here’s one I photographed off Ardmore, in Co Waterford. Nobody noticed it until they saw me with my camera pointed towards it!
Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 240mm |
ISO | 400 |
Shutter speed | 1/3200s |