8 Minutes Later

[pluton]

Pre-sunrise views from the Mojave Desert, about 8 minutes apart.  D800E, 28mm lens, cropped to movie-ish aspect ratios. 

[Tom Hook]

Good idea, well done. I like the wide screen crop.

[elsa hoffmann]

I have never liked crops other than the usual 35mm 4x6 kind of thing. But lately my eyes have been opened to the wider ratio and I am loving it. Your images and crops certainly works well. Nice comparison too. Thanks for sharing.

[pluton]

Thanks for commenting.  The main attraction of the then-new 36 megapixel D800 cameras was this kind of use.  Doing this on a D3, one ended up working with a 5 or 6 MP image.

[Lars Hansen]

Great colorful sun-rise shots and good proof of how fast such a scenery can change. The crop works well! 

For landscapes I've always liked wide and panorama format - in the film days 6x9, 6x12, 6x17.

[John Geerts]

Love it Keith. Lovely colours in the sky and a very useful crop, ideal for landscapes.   

By the way, stitching three photo's will give approximately the same crop, but that is perhaps undo-able in fast changing lights.

[armando_m]

Looks like a dragon

[CS]

I find the corduroy effect in the clouds in the first image very interesting.

[Akira]

Impressive clouds and color.  The color of the sky at dawn or dusk colors changes quite fast, and it is a bit tricky to nail the best moment.  You succeeded to capture the "moment" in the second image, and the first image in the complementary color is beautiful, too.

[pluton]

Love it Keith. Lovely colours in the sky and a very useful crop, ideal for landscapes.   

By the way, stitching three photo's will give approximately the same crop, but that is perhaps undo-able in fast changing lights.

Thanks John.  Stitching also gives higher detail through more pixels, which is a usually good thing for larger displays and prints.  I don't remember if these were handlheld or tripod...they are slightly blurry at the fine detail level, which could be lens focus(difficult in dim light) or slight camera shake if it was handheld(1/40 second on the darker scene.)