Rotating the Paintbrush

[AlanLichty]

This is a 3 shot portrait orientation telephoto panorama of Mt. St. Helens from a couple of nights ago taken at roughly the same time as @Jameel Hyder's Paintbrush in the Sky post yesterday. Clouds that were vertical in his shot are horizontal here since I am looking NNE while he was shooting ESE. You can barely make out a tiny slice of Mt. Rainier's peak just above the foothills to the left of Mt. St. Helens.

The primary color show for me was in the west but I almost always try to grab some shots of Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Adams, and Mt. Hood whenever I have my drone up in the air.

C&C always welcome.

 

[Michael13]

Just as lovely a color show, pastels have understated power!

 

[AlanLichty]

Just as lovely a color show, pastels have understated power!

Thanks Michael - the pastels were indeed quite nice over Mt. St. Helens. Not quite as good over Mt. Hood due to a fair amount of haze making the mountain less visible.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nice glow on the mountain to go with the pastel clouds. Good thing you don't have buildings in the foreground which I almost always struggle with here.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice glow on the mountain to go with the pastel clouds. Good thing you don't have buildings in the foreground which I almost always struggle with here.

Thanks Jameel - my solution for the buildings is to drop down low enough for the trees to mask them for me. The higher I fly the more buildings are visible in the frame. My goal for timing the shot was to watch for the last rays on the top.

 

[JimFox]

How interesting to see this same sunset but from a different direction Alan.

 

[JimFox]

Thanks Jameel - my solution for the buildings is to drop down low enough for the trees to mask them for me. The higher I fly the more buildings are visible in the frame. My goal for timing the shot was to watch for the last rays on the top.

That's a good tip on how to use the trees to mask buildings by not being too high.

 

[AlanLichty]

How interesting to see this same sunset but from a different direction Alan.

Thanks Jim - there have been a couple of occasions where Jameel and I have shot the same sunrise/sunset above our homes and it is fun to compare the views. This is the same sunset as the glow shot I posted yesterday but much earlier in the sequence.

 

[AlanLichty]

That's a good tip on how to use the trees to mask buildings by not being too high.

Thanks - I stumbled into this shooting sunrises looking towards Mt. Hood. At around 120' the houses almost disappear given the height of the trees in my area and I discovered that this was true no matter which direction I was shooting. That said I can't really see the Columbia River wetlands until I go up to at least 350'.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

One issue I have is that if I fly low enough to avoid the buildings, I see some tall trees closer to where I am shooting from which aligns with the horizon. This is true in some directions, but the approach works in general.