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eftychia at 07:02am on 2008-01-29Despite how tired I felt when I got home from 3LF rehearsal, I haven't managed to fall asleep yet. I just got up to visit the euphemism room, and on the way back, a flash of bright red caught my eye as I passed the window on the landing.
The sky has lightened just enough to be able to see the texture of the cloud deck and notice a bit of colour. The sky over Baltimore is a mottled faint indigo and dusty purple. Except for a break, or a thin spot, or something in the clouds, over the harbour, that the not-quite-rising-yet sun has turned into a spectacular Bright! Crimson! Slash! across the sky just above the horizon, all the more dramatic for the contrast with the grey-purple (with muted indigo swirls) winter overcast. It's a dark January morning so far, except for that Bright! Red! Gash! over the harbour.
Baltimore gets some freaky skies, man.
And yeah, it's pretty.
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Pix? Please?
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I'll try for a photo if the effect is still pronounced now that the rest of the sky has brightened a bit -- as it was, it was the kind of contrast that my digital camera doesn't handle especially well, and I've been having trouble with it anyhow (the latch for the battery compartment broke). I'll go see what I can get though.
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I like the band, though their repertoire is limited enough that I only have three shows of theirs on the hard drive.
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I should've tried to get it on film instead of posting about it right away, but by waiting-to-be-developed film backlog is so deep that I probably wouldn't have seen chemical photos of it until late 2010 anyhow.
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Have you done any experimentation with HDRI? It looks all sorts of interesting, and the results seem to be really awesome. This sounds like the kind of situation just made for it, if you could pop three or six shots quickly enough.
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If I went out on the roof with a tripod, instead of leaning out the window like I usually do to shoot interesting Baltimore skies, I could bracket with this camera, given that the subject in question was sufficiently slow moving. (Changing the exposure compensation involves stepping through a couple of menus.) Trying to do it leaning out the window, frame registration would be a significant problem. And until I repair the battery door latch, bracketing is right out -- not enough hands to squeeze the door shut and operate the controls.
It'll be a long time before I can afford a DSLR, which is what I want in a digicam (and I wouldn't have been able to afford this point-and-shoot digital either -- it's a hand-me-down from a friend who upgraded, to whom I am grateful). I like the instant results, especially for blogging, but my SLR habits have me constantly thinking that I should do things that I remember a moment later this camera doesn't do (or doesn't do well). With my film cameras, bracketing is quick & easy. Then again, so is picking one part of the scene to meter for with my film cameras (all the more so if a second body, with a really long lens, is at hand to use as a spotmeter, of course).
It's too bad I can't operate the camera via its USB port. Then I could store custom shooting programs (including, say, auto-bracketing) on my PDA, and trigger them more quickly than I can do navigating the menus and such.
Anyhow, you're right that this morning's bleeding sky would have been good to shoot with HDRI techniques. There's no other way that could've gotten the brilliance of that gash and the indigo swirlies at the same time, or probably the curdled texture of the cloud ceiling, for that matter.
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Color me nostalgic.
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Good band, but, like Meatloaf and others of their ilk, the limited repertoire makes it hard to put them into heavy rotation.
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Blech.
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