I bought a tub enclosure for the new house Thursday afternoon (Nov 12). This is what I saw as I was leaving.
There is a nice sundog on the right. There were no clouds to the left of the sun, so no sundog there. There is a hint of color above the sun which may be a camera artifact, although it seems to appear in cloud areas and (perhaps) not in clear sky. If the clouds had had the right mix of ice crystals, the sundog could have extended up into the clouds above it. The clouds obviously contained mostly hexagonal flat plates, which tend to orient themselves horizontally so that the sunlight passes through them along the hexagonal edges, dispersing the colored light only in limited directions. The “right” crystals would have included a significant percentage of hexagonal columns, which have no preferred orientation and can thus disperse the light into more directions. Anyway, it was nice.
On Sunday morning Leah told me to go onto the deck and see the sunrise.
I shot this with our little Nikon point-and-shoot. I wonder if the iPhone would have done a better job with exposure, since it seems to have a wider dynamic range. The bright areas might not have washed out.
Beautiful skies there. Love seeing the sundog. Haven’t seen one of those here for a while. I had been wondering about the photographic quality differences between my Panasonic Lumix and the iPhone. I had been getting very disappointed with the Lumix sky shots. So, on a particularly beautiful day of asperitas clouds, I photographed the sky with both the camera and the phone. No contest whatsoever. The camera, even though I can’t seem to get it to actually convey what I am seeing, did a fantastic job compared to the iPhone. I may do a post to show the differences.
Robin — One of the things that the iPhone allows you to do is specify the region of interest by tapping the screen. That way it adjusts the exposure and focus for that area of the scene. According to some people it also can sometimes do a better job than some cameras at capturing a scene with a wide range of light and dark, although it may need tweaking in Photoshop to bring it out. A photoblogger I read sometimes (kenrockwell.com) did an interesting comparison of iPhone vs some actual cameras a few days ago.