Fraggle Red
Red Planet
Jupiter? Looks More Like Mars.
Blowing Rocks Preserve, Jupiter Island, FL
I got up at 3:45 am yesterday morning to drive the 80 or so miles up to Jupiter Island to meet up with my friends and shoot the sunrise at Blowing Rocks Preserve. I’ve been there before, but figured if I don’t go they’ll get the most amazing clouds, the clouds I am still chasing… LOL. It looked like I got lucky, because there were clouds… yeah… We had some nice sky, orange horizon, blue sky and grayish clouds.
I set up my first shot 30 minutes before sunrise, fire off three shots and they all looked purple. I usually shoot in AWB and although my camera sometimes has the tendency to see colors when I don’t see any, this was a bit weird. No matter what white balance I used, all I got was purple or red. This is one of the shots I took with the WB set to “cloudy”, which really turned things red. Once the sun came up the colors were fine.
Maybe it was that sand blowing in from the Sahara desert they were talking about in the news?
Oh, I am sure I could fiddle around a bit more in Lightroom to get the colors I saw, but well, call me lazy. And I kinda like the red tones, although I found it a bit strange.
But the weird colors were soon my least concern. I was merrily shooting away, when I all of a sudden noticed a strange line running across part of my image. I was like “what is that?” When I looked at it closer, I saw I had that line in all my shots. I had cleaned the sensor the night before to remove some dust spots and now I have a line running across my images. Did I scratch the sensor? I panicked…
Silly, really, as I didn’t touch the senor and even if I would have I don’t think that glass scratched that easily.
I tried the sensor clean, the line stayed were it was. Darn it! I didn’t have my rocket blower with me, besides it was rather windy at the beach and I had no intention of taking the lens off anyway. So after missing the sunrise because of that I just kept shooting. Eventually, after doing a “sensor clean” for like 10 times the line moved ever so slightly. Whew! At least it’s not a scratch.
I did a manual clean once I got home and it looks like whatever it was is gone, but that really freaked me out.
Explore/Interestingness: Highest position: #130 on Monday, August 3, 2009 - THANK YOU!
Red Planet
Jupiter? Looks More Like Mars.
Blowing Rocks Preserve, Jupiter Island, FL
I got up at 3:45 am yesterday morning to drive the 80 or so miles up to Jupiter Island to meet up with my friends and shoot the sunrise at Blowing Rocks Preserve. I’ve been there before, but figured if I don’t go they’ll get the most amazing clouds, the clouds I am still chasing… LOL. It looked like I got lucky, because there were clouds… yeah… We had some nice sky, orange horizon, blue sky and grayish clouds.
I set up my first shot 30 minutes before sunrise, fire off three shots and they all looked purple. I usually shoot in AWB and although my camera sometimes has the tendency to see colors when I don’t see any, this was a bit weird. No matter what white balance I used, all I got was purple or red. This is one of the shots I took with the WB set to “cloudy”, which really turned things red. Once the sun came up the colors were fine.
Maybe it was that sand blowing in from the Sahara desert they were talking about in the news?
Oh, I am sure I could fiddle around a bit more in Lightroom to get the colors I saw, but well, call me lazy. And I kinda like the red tones, although I found it a bit strange.
But the weird colors were soon my least concern. I was merrily shooting away, when I all of a sudden noticed a strange line running across part of my image. I was like “what is that?” When I looked at it closer, I saw I had that line in all my shots. I had cleaned the sensor the night before to remove some dust spots and now I have a line running across my images. Did I scratch the sensor? I panicked…
Silly, really, as I didn’t touch the senor and even if I would have I don’t think that glass scratched that easily.
I tried the sensor clean, the line stayed were it was. Darn it! I didn’t have my rocket blower with me, besides it was rather windy at the beach and I had no intention of taking the lens off anyway. So after missing the sunrise because of that I just kept shooting. Eventually, after doing a “sensor clean” for like 10 times the line moved ever so slightly. Whew! At least it’s not a scratch.
I did a manual clean once I got home and it looks like whatever it was is gone, but that really freaked me out.
Explore/Interestingness: Highest position: #130 on Monday, August 3, 2009 - THANK YOU!