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[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Surprise Early Morning Cloud Shadows
14 June 2007

I spotted this rather nice cloud shadow pillars over the lake early this morning and paused to take a few shots.

[katodog]

Okay Joe. Those are very, very good pics. But...

You need to link to bigger shots, or at least make your astro album open to the public so we can see the pics bigger. Those would be incredible if they were the size of the screen.

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Kdog,

You know...I have been getting numerous requests for a large format of that sunrise for screen savers.

What happened was the camera was set to 800 ISO from my ISS capture a couple of nights before. I forgot to return the ISO setting to a realistic 80 or 100 ISO...ergo, the original image was quite grainy. I passed the images thru a noise filtering program, and they cleaned up very well.

Let's what what I can do from the original exposure and post the large format here.

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Large Format of the Chicago Sunrise of 14 June 2004

Due to a great demand from email, pm's and other boards across the net, I have reworked the nice sunrise we had in Chicago with the mysterious dark cloud shadow pillars. Many of you wish to use it as a screen saver. I am humbled by your appreciation...

The large format images can be found here:

img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/josephguzman/PowerShot%20S3/1-2.jpg

and here:

img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/josephguzman/PowerShot%20S3/cloud41024xFinal.jpg

Again, with an original ISO of 800, the images needed post processing more than usual to remove the inherent noise, but even so, I think they are quite striking.

Enjoy... ;D

[katodog]

Don't feel bad, I do the same thing all the time. And it's always when you need to take that split second or it's gone type of pic. I was out a the inlaws this past weekend, and still had the camera set on long exposures from astro pics, and when three deer, mom and two babies, came through the yard, I had to scramble like mad to get the camera settings fixed to take their picture.

Okay, everybody. On the count of three...

1...

2...

3...

AAAAAWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Run, Bambi, Run!

Cute shot...