THÉ Break of Summer 2022
ꒌ РАЂАЊЕ СУНЦА првог летњег дана прошле, 2022. године. Први минут је увек бескрајно узбудљив. Баш као и рађање. Из ничега наступа нешто. И то неумољиво, помпезно, весело и сигурно. Телеобјектив то приближава, појачава и наглашава. Колико је год издисај последњег милиметра сунца на његовом заласку тих и слабашан, толико је појава његовог првог делића грандиозна; не мање од целине. Колико је ишчезавање тужно, толико је појављивање славно. Из пригушене неразговетне таме освита јавља се громогласна и моћна кугла чији је сваки део жарко светао, јасан, неизбежан, једнак по снази и сили и раван целини. И сваки наредни секунд и минут потврђују да је то све тако.
► █░▓ THE FIRST MINUTE of the first summer day 2022 in my town. This was the sunrise closest to the summer solstice, and I sacrificed a night's sleep to see it happen. The twilight is perceptible already from about 3:30 a.m. as the sun "revolves" not low under the horizon. Half an hour before the upcoming great moment, the clouds above the skyline at ~40° NE begin to reflect the direct sunlight, and it is a memorable scene. Normally, the last minutes prior to the sunrise (at 5:20 on this June 21st) are full of eager anticipation with a fast rising excitement level. This time, a phenomenon that occurs in the Lowlands usually at the sunset was to spoil everything for me - there was a large cloud front NE blocking the view. This occurs more often at sunsets because the air above the North Sea is obviously less dry and less stable. Thus it forms these broad cloud "fronts" more often there than over the mainland above Germany, where the sun "comes from" for me in the morning. In this particular case, the sun is higher above the true horizon than it appears here, as the foliage stands in the way. Almost half of the sun has already emerged above the true horizon. The portion you don't get to see, is blocked here by the woods.
The best one?
The first shot I made was within a few seconds of the sun appearance and is for me personally the most valuable as I remember the excitement. However I uploaded here the second capture which has more volume of the sun in it and has therefore more photographic merit for you.
What's the point?
The sunrise on a summer solstice happens at the point on the horizon which is closest to the north (here at 49°NE). Luckily I got a cellphone net antenna here in the frame as a visual reference point. To the right of the sun, it is at 51°53'52.2"N and 5°10'08.5"E exact 16,15 km (10 miles as the crow flies) away from the lens, next to the local railway tracks 1,5 km before they cross the A2 at junction #14 Beesd. The view "crosses" at seven places Linge, perhaps the most charming small river of them all in Holland. Also hidden in the foliage are nearby villages of Spijk, Kekum, Heukulum (to me the prettiest in Holland), and Asperen. Further behind, the foliage conceals the beautiful old Estate Glory Mariënwaerdt and the jagged edged tree tops above Bisschopsgraaf.
The annual seesaw
Each next sunrise will ever slightly move away from the north (to the right) on the skyline, until the winter solstice, when this process will reverse. On December 21st the sun will rise (if the world still exists on that day) on the skyline point closest to the south in the whole annual cycle. Then the sunrise point at the horizon will start to travel back to the north until the next summer solstice.
Clouds brighter than the sun?
I noticed a nice phenomenon here at the moment of capture. The thin orange high clouds above the broad grey cloud band are lit by the sun and have much lighter color than the sun itself. This "paradox" has an easy explanation. Let me know if you'd like to hear it.
Hide and seek
Seconds after this moment the sun indeed entered the large cloud front that you see here in the middle of the picture. After four minutes it looked as if it will disappear completely behind this stripe. But than it immediately made a glorious re-entry, above the grey band, this time in full glow of the light yellow which soon turned into white.
Notes on the post processing
- As usually, the raw file (sooc jpeg too) looked washed out and almost monochromatic (black-yellow with the sun faintly red). A far rendition of the spectacle I had witnessed. It took a lot of hassle while developing the raw to get the colors emerge and differentiate. Without the delicate curves of the Affinity Photo, I could have done almost nothing here. Yet, the sun retained an odd color nowhere near the real. A sort of red close to pink, very ugly and totally unnatural. So I tried to reconstruct the color from memory using a separate overlay for the sun alone and playing with its white balance, saturation and vibrance. Finally I got it right... thought I. In the end I applied the Haze removal filter. It did remove some haze ever-slightly, but unexpectedly changed the overall color balance and disturbed the sun's color again. You can't win them all!
~SHORTCUTS~ Press [F11] and [L] key to engage Full Screen (Light box) mode with black background - press the same key or [Esc] to return. Press [F] to "Like" (Fave), press [C] to comment.
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THÉ Break of Summer 2022
ꒌ РАЂАЊЕ СУНЦА првог летњег дана прошле, 2022. године. Први минут је увек бескрајно узбудљив. Баш као и рађање. Из ничега наступа нешто. И то неумољиво, помпезно, весело и сигурно. Телеобјектив то приближава, појачава и наглашава. Колико је год издисај последњег милиметра сунца на његовом заласку тих и слабашан, толико је појава његовог првог делића грандиозна; не мање од целине. Колико је ишчезавање тужно, толико је појављивање славно. Из пригушене неразговетне таме освита јавља се громогласна и моћна кугла чији је сваки део жарко светао, јасан, неизбежан, једнак по снази и сили и раван целини. И сваки наредни секунд и минут потврђују да је то све тако.
► █░▓ THE FIRST MINUTE of the first summer day 2022 in my town. This was the sunrise closest to the summer solstice, and I sacrificed a night's sleep to see it happen. The twilight is perceptible already from about 3:30 a.m. as the sun "revolves" not low under the horizon. Half an hour before the upcoming great moment, the clouds above the skyline at ~40° NE begin to reflect the direct sunlight, and it is a memorable scene. Normally, the last minutes prior to the sunrise (at 5:20 on this June 21st) are full of eager anticipation with a fast rising excitement level. This time, a phenomenon that occurs in the Lowlands usually at the sunset was to spoil everything for me - there was a large cloud front NE blocking the view. This occurs more often at sunsets because the air above the North Sea is obviously less dry and less stable. Thus it forms these broad cloud "fronts" more often there than over the mainland above Germany, where the sun "comes from" for me in the morning. In this particular case, the sun is higher above the true horizon than it appears here, as the foliage stands in the way. Almost half of the sun has already emerged above the true horizon. The portion you don't get to see, is blocked here by the woods.
The best one?
The first shot I made was within a few seconds of the sun appearance and is for me personally the most valuable as I remember the excitement. However I uploaded here the second capture which has more volume of the sun in it and has therefore more photographic merit for you.
What's the point?
The sunrise on a summer solstice happens at the point on the horizon which is closest to the north (here at 49°NE). Luckily I got a cellphone net antenna here in the frame as a visual reference point. To the right of the sun, it is at 51°53'52.2"N and 5°10'08.5"E exact 16,15 km (10 miles as the crow flies) away from the lens, next to the local railway tracks 1,5 km before they cross the A2 at junction #14 Beesd. The view "crosses" at seven places Linge, perhaps the most charming small river of them all in Holland. Also hidden in the foliage are nearby villages of Spijk, Kekum, Heukulum (to me the prettiest in Holland), and Asperen. Further behind, the foliage conceals the beautiful old Estate Glory Mariënwaerdt and the jagged edged tree tops above Bisschopsgraaf.
The annual seesaw
Each next sunrise will ever slightly move away from the north (to the right) on the skyline, until the winter solstice, when this process will reverse. On December 21st the sun will rise (if the world still exists on that day) on the skyline point closest to the south in the whole annual cycle. Then the sunrise point at the horizon will start to travel back to the north until the next summer solstice.
Clouds brighter than the sun?
I noticed a nice phenomenon here at the moment of capture. The thin orange high clouds above the broad grey cloud band are lit by the sun and have much lighter color than the sun itself. This "paradox" has an easy explanation. Let me know if you'd like to hear it.
Hide and seek
Seconds after this moment the sun indeed entered the large cloud front that you see here in the middle of the picture. After four minutes it looked as if it will disappear completely behind this stripe. But than it immediately made a glorious re-entry, above the grey band, this time in full glow of the light yellow which soon turned into white.
Notes on the post processing
- As usually, the raw file (sooc jpeg too) looked washed out and almost monochromatic (black-yellow with the sun faintly red). A far rendition of the spectacle I had witnessed. It took a lot of hassle while developing the raw to get the colors emerge and differentiate. Without the delicate curves of the Affinity Photo, I could have done almost nothing here. Yet, the sun retained an odd color nowhere near the real. A sort of red close to pink, very ugly and totally unnatural. So I tried to reconstruct the color from memory using a separate overlay for the sun alone and playing with its white balance, saturation and vibrance. Finally I got it right... thought I. In the end I applied the Haze removal filter. It did remove some haze ever-slightly, but unexpectedly changed the overall color balance and disturbed the sun's color again. You can't win them all!
~SHORTCUTS~ Press [F11] and [L] key to engage Full Screen (Light box) mode with black background - press the same key or [Esc] to return. Press [F] to "Like" (Fave), press [C] to comment.
All rights reserved. This image may not be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my permission.
File name: P1322005-from-RAW_2