Study of a sunrise

[Kaye Leggett]

I remember reading and being fascinated by one of Donald's posts earlier in the year when he experimented with taking the same shot at time intervals and seeing the differences.

On my recent trip to Namibia, we stayed in some really remote places and one where this study came alive for me. Here is sunrise..... we were facing west and tucked behind a hill. Sunrise was at 6.08am - the first of these images was taken at 6.05




10 minutes later at 6.15




Another 4 minutes later at 6.19




And at 6.24 the sun shone on the hill




What a magical way to start a day.


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[NorthernFocus]

Great post, Kaye. What a way to spend a morning. Just taking time to watch creation unveiled before you. Preferably while sipping a cup of coffee.

[Shadowman]

Nice efforts.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Kaye,

Are these the correct colours as you remember them?

I ask because according to the EXIF data the camera was on Auto WB (for the first two at least) and this has resulted in vastly different White Balance Kelvin and Tint figures; e.g. #1 = 6700 and -13, whereas #2 = 4450 and -15.

This is what's giving the vastly different colours we see here (between #1 and #2 at least), rather than the real change of colour.

However, all is not lost; because you shot RAW, all you need do to re-process the series with a single value for WB set in LR (e.g. use one of the presets) for all four images - this will then show us the actual change of light between those times is set.

I don't doubt the colour was changing, but your camera, on Auto WB, was 'fighting' it - and as AWB was not 'over-ruled' in LR during PP (it is on "As Shot"), I don't think the analysis is valid - although some are pretty

Hope that's helpful for the purpose of the 'study' and doesn't spoil the magic.

Cheers, Dave

[Kaye Leggett]

Thanks all for commenting. Dan, indeed coffee was involved. Dave - thanks for this insightful information. The colour change is as I remember but had completely forgotten the WB effect. It is the first which is probably too warm, so will revisit for a better study - thank you so much.