Spontaneous sunrise

This happend mid to end of October, right on my freakin' balcony, ..and has a few question marks around it!

 

First, I can't even recall why I was up at that time, there was zero intent to catch a sunrise, and it didn't even look like it at all, it was all grey and dark, ..until the clouds opened up just enough for our space heater to shine through.

Since this was a matter of minutes or seconds really, I grabbed the next camera body with whatever was attached to it; luckily it was my beloved 180mm AI-S prime on the D7200 (DX), just what was needed.

What about the strange panoramic format? It's not a panorama or cropped that way. How I messed up here is not clear to me either, but I figure it had something to do with the mode the live view was in.

I usually shoot using the viewfinder whenever I can, cause that's what I like and do, but it's not a good idea to shoot directly into the sun with effectively 270mm at f/2.8 (mechanical coupling), at least if you care about your eyesight.

So I stopped all the way down to f/32, to perhaps handle the light as is and / or create a sunstar or something and switched to live view.

It was clearly a pretty rushed situation, so I didn't expect much or anything really, cartainly not such a smooth and colorful halo arouond the sun, or that the crow decided to be in the frame. The light was great and golden, but the camera for sure put it's own spin on the whole scene; the format, ISO800 with 1/5000sec ..what?, the color palette resp. white balance in general etc., so I basically left it as it is.

 

 

Nikon D7200 (APS-C crop sensor / DX)

NIKKOR*ED 180mm f/2.8 AI-S prime

ISO800, 180mm, f/32, 1/5000s (-1 EV)

(thus 270mm full frame equivalent)

single image, handheld, hastily..

Done