Cruise Liner"Disney Magic" arrives in Liverpool with Noctilucent Clouds.
I'm not a fan of racking up my ISO,s to get a shot but sometimes needs must, the challenge that brings howether is quite a thing especially as your subject is five hours late and you are in a very dark location. I was going to give up and go home but something happened that stopped me in my tracks and get to work, the sky was completely covered in clouds adding to the problem of already being in a ridiculously dark place, five minutes before the ship came into view, a wide gap appeared in the cloud base exposing an incredible display of noctilucent clouds, a rare and stunning phenomenon, these are the highest clouds at around 200.000 ft and are literally sheet ice which being so high up absorb the light of the now long gone sun and bringing a bit of real daylight into your dark setting, normally a scene like this would allow you to capture the scene with slower shutter speeds at lower ISO's but here we had a moving ship and the only way to capture this rare moment was to accept quality sacrifices and work with around 1/40 at best, still, I mustn't grumble.
Cruise Liner"Disney Magic" arrives in Liverpool with Noctilucent Clouds.
I'm not a fan of racking up my ISO,s to get a shot but sometimes needs must, the challenge that brings howether is quite a thing especially as your subject is five hours late and you are in a very dark location. I was going to give up and go home but something happened that stopped me in my tracks and get to work, the sky was completely covered in clouds adding to the problem of already being in a ridiculously dark place, five minutes before the ship came into view, a wide gap appeared in the cloud base exposing an incredible display of noctilucent clouds, a rare and stunning phenomenon, these are the highest clouds at around 200.000 ft and are literally sheet ice which being so high up absorb the light of the now long gone sun and bringing a bit of real daylight into your dark setting, normally a scene like this would allow you to capture the scene with slower shutter speeds at lower ISO's but here we had a moving ship and the only way to capture this rare moment was to accept quality sacrifices and work with around 1/40 at best, still, I mustn't grumble.