Paco Dennis
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I post a lot to the "Good Morning,...etc" thread. I wonder if it is a picture of a sunrise or a sunset....matching the phrase. Maybe this video will make it easier to tell...interesting.
Sunset vs Sunrise: Can you tell the difference?
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RadishRose
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This requires me to think too hard.
But thanks. Hahaha, like you I first questioned this when I posted Good Mornings and Good Nights.
But thanks. Hahaha, like you I first questioned this when I posted Good Mornings and Good Nights.
Bella
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Good to know, but when posting, if most people can't tell the difference, does it matter?
Paco Dennis
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No, I wouldn't care if I liked the picture. I might take a second glance though.Good to know, but when posting, if most people can't tell the difference, does it matter?
RadishRose
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It's beginning to. Things like this overtake me slowly.Good to know, but when posting, if most people can't tell the difference, does it matter?
They happen in different horizons, sun rise in the East
sun set in the West.
The sky turns grey for longer when it is sunrise, before
the sun arrives, but it seems to be different when it is
setting, the grey sky doesn't seem to last so long.
Completely wrong probably as the Earth is spinning at
the same speed always.
Mike.
sun set in the West.
The sky turns grey for longer when it is sunrise, before
the sun arrives, but it seems to be different when it is
setting, the grey sky doesn't seem to last so long.
Completely wrong probably as the Earth is spinning at
the same speed always.
Mike.
RadishRose
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I finally decided it doesn't matter.
packleader
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Some sunrises and sunsets (the top two in Bora Bora; the others from an airplane)
David777
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As an old landscape photographer, have been looking at not only sky colors at all times of day but also all matter of landscape light parameters. Also have a bookcase on natural science subjects including weather and atmospherics. But after reading this thread could not find my copy of one of the first and finest science books covering sky colors and phenomenon so need to queue up a task of straightening out what has become disorganized bookcases.
What he related is true about sunrises and sunsets but did not include a more important factor. What he did show were ocean images both east and west that more often have more interesting skies because there tends to be more clouds to reflect low angle colorful sunlight and there are no blocking elements.
Here in the California region, with all else equal, the two are most often different because humidity to the west given the Pacific Ocean tends to be higher than continental air at all atmospheric elevations to the east. It is also true that sometimes during winter, cold low humidity Canadian continental air moves down the West Coast out over the ocean and when it does, the atmosphere towards the west may look more like that to the east. And sometimes the reverse happens to the east with tropical Mexican monsoon flows out east into the Great Basin.
My body of work unlike most photographers, doesn't have a lot of dawn/sunrise and sunset/dusk subjects because I refuse to manipulate my images jacking up saturation and creating false colors the majority of people do. Many inexpensive cameras today by default take unnatural highly saturated images. So when I do capture such colorful skies, such does look close to what I experienced.
California sunsets with its often heavy marine air and fog out across the Pacific Ocean tend to be on average less interesting than those in Oregon or Washington. Our best skies tend to be from alpine heights of Sierra Nevada after thunderstorms skies clear. Otherwise the best colors are at dawn across huge Mono Lake because humidity is often low with cold temperatures. The below is one such image from 2020 but without clouds capturing the pure Earth shadow colors. Normally seagulls are easily spooked being as close as I was that dawn. However I set up my tripod in the dimmest dawn and stayed so still that birds soon moved close, feeding on tiny brine shrimp.
What he related is true about sunrises and sunsets but did not include a more important factor. What he did show were ocean images both east and west that more often have more interesting skies because there tends to be more clouds to reflect low angle colorful sunlight and there are no blocking elements.
Here in the California region, with all else equal, the two are most often different because humidity to the west given the Pacific Ocean tends to be higher than continental air at all atmospheric elevations to the east. It is also true that sometimes during winter, cold low humidity Canadian continental air moves down the West Coast out over the ocean and when it does, the atmosphere towards the west may look more like that to the east. And sometimes the reverse happens to the east with tropical Mexican monsoon flows out east into the Great Basin.
My body of work unlike most photographers, doesn't have a lot of dawn/sunrise and sunset/dusk subjects because I refuse to manipulate my images jacking up saturation and creating false colors the majority of people do. Many inexpensive cameras today by default take unnatural highly saturated images. So when I do capture such colorful skies, such does look close to what I experienced.
California sunsets with its often heavy marine air and fog out across the Pacific Ocean tend to be on average less interesting than those in Oregon or Washington. Our best skies tend to be from alpine heights of Sierra Nevada after thunderstorms skies clear. Otherwise the best colors are at dawn across huge Mono Lake because humidity is often low with cold temperatures. The below is one such image from 2020 but without clouds capturing the pure Earth shadow colors. Normally seagulls are easily spooked being as close as I was that dawn. However I set up my tripod in the dimmest dawn and stayed so still that birds soon moved close, feeding on tiny brine shrimp.