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After smashing my UV filter to bits during last night's impromptu Christmas dinner party photo shoot I took the EOS on a little photo trip where the UV filter would have been priceless. As there is little snow left anywhere after the recent heat wave my weekend skiing plans had to be replaced by something else. So, I decided to code a little HDR bracketing CHDK script and take the camera kit out for a test run.
As the coding took a while and the sun had already set on my house at the bottom of the Prahova valley I had to jump in the car and chase the sunset. As I was driving up the winding mountain road I could see the sunset slowly rewinding itself. By the time I got to the top of the hill I still had about half an hour of sunset to enjoy and shoot.
After dumping the car on the side of the road I started running up the hill to get to a good vantage point. About 1 hour had passed by the time I shot 180 photos resulting in 5 reasonable quality HDR images and a couple of standard sunset shots.
You can see the results in the Chasing the Sunset album.
Notes:
- never look through the eyepiece as you shoot the setting sun with a DSLR, it will burn your eyes.
- use a tripod to ensure proper alignment of the HDR components.
- no matter how warm the weather is the top of a mountain will be very windy in at sunset in December.
To show how much running was required for this very small set of pictures you can have a look at my GPS logger's altitude profile:
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