Sunrise Crimson Portrait
Using a 1600mm telephoto, I bring horizons 40 miles out, up close and personal. The sun here is stationary and actually behind the horizon. This is NOT entirely line of site. The Atmospheric lens is bending the light around the curve of the planet. You see it setting and rising earlier at it’s rise. It sets later at sunset due to this. The Suns Disk actually is below the horizon here totally. It’s an interesting effect of the bending of light around the curve of the planet.
The thick atmosphere hundreds of miles thick only allows the longest red rays through. Yellow is a component of the sky this late in the sunrise as well. A quick transition to real line of site viewing occurs. Usually somewhere around 10 minutes after sunrise. The actual position of the sun eventually catches up to it’s apparent position. Again caused by the lessening refraction of that atmospheric lens that thins as the sun apparently rises higher.
Crimson close ups within big sky shows are not rare, they are beautiful however. Some are also better than others. This one is a good one…. You have to remember that this is a very small area of the sky. Hold your thumb out at an arms length and you would cover the entire area of this frame with it. Telephoto lenses crush perspective. The higher the magnification, the mountains in the foreground seem larger, but the sun which is already proportionally the same size, seems huge by comparison. It’s an optical illusion/perspective crush. 🤔🤔📸
Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands (Wyotana)
Title: Sunrise Crimson Portrait