Yep, I missed this nuclear sunset believe it or not.
It had been getting cloudier throughout the day to where an hour before sunset the whole sky was full of clouds. I am at my son's house that is a bit out in the boondocks north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. I am dog sitting at his house, so after taking care of the dogs, I sat down to work on some photos. About 20 minutes after the official sunset time, I decided to go outside and just check to see what the sky looked like, and my heart jumped!
It was much darker then the photo shows, but I could see the underside of the large cloud still being red. So I thought if I overexpose the image the color will still pop, or I hope so. I quickly grab a tripod and my Nikon Z8 with the 24-200mm. I ended up with 5 to 6 second exposures, that's how dark it was. But man, that color was still there.
I was so happy to get this, but my heart was still sunk thinking about how nuclear the color had to have been, imagining in my head even brighter colors popping on every inch of the clouds.
But, I am mostly over it
so here is the nuclear photo that I missed, or almost missed.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
PS. That's Black Mesa rising up
It had been getting cloudier throughout the day to where an hour before sunset the whole sky was full of clouds. I am at my son's house that is a bit out in the boondocks north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. I am dog sitting at his house, so after taking care of the dogs, I sat down to work on some photos. About 20 minutes after the official sunset time, I decided to go outside and just check to see what the sky looked like, and my heart jumped!
It was much darker then the photo shows, but I could see the underside of the large cloud still being red. So I thought if I overexpose the image the color will still pop, or I hope so. I quickly grab a tripod and my Nikon Z8 with the 24-200mm. I ended up with 5 to 6 second exposures, that's how dark it was. But man, that color was still there.
I was so happy to get this, but my heart was still sunk thinking about how nuclear the color had to have been, imagining in my head even brighter colors popping on every inch of the clouds.
But, I am mostly over it
so here is the nuclear photo that I missed, or almost missed.All comments are welcome,
Jim
PS. That's Black Mesa rising up
