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OT: Pt. Reyes light at 11:45am - Phogge - 09-09-2020

I have never seen anything like it. For those who shoot the exposure is at T2 at 250ASA. Unprecedented. Dark. The light is orange. Fog is trapping the smoke. I Phones and I Pads are color correcting and don't reveal the true color. We are in the seventeenth day of an evacuation order but the wonderful Federal/Marin County team backburned the last troubling forest undergrowth yesterday. We are very lucky. The gigantic fire north of us kicked up near Windsor and along the Russian River overnight. More evacs. And now a fire is barreling at Medford Oregon running right alongside I5. Most of Medford under an evacuation order. No doubt the worst year since 1861.

lex24 - lex24 - 09-09-2020

(09-09-2020, 11:53 AM)Phogge Wrote:  I have never seen anything like it. For those who shoot the exposure is at T2 at 250ASA. Unprecedented. Dark. The light is orange. Fog is trapping the smoke. I Phones and I Pads are color correcting and don't reveal the true color. We are in the seventeenth day of an evacuation order but the wonderful Federal/Marin County team backburned the last troubling forest undergrowth yesterday. We are very lucky. The gigantic fire north of us kicked up near Windsor and along the Russian River overnight. More evacs. And now a fire is barreling at Medford Oregon running right alongside I5. Most of Medford under an evacuation order. No doubt the worst year since 1861.


It is the weirdest sky (East Bay Hills) I’ve ever seen.  Thoughts are with you

RE: OT: Pt. Reyes light at 11:45am - Phogge - 09-09-2020

Just after my post the warning was lifted. God Bless the crews on all the fires plus law enforcement and our Supervisor. Very businesslike approach to communications as we knew where we stood at all times.We have dodged two bullets, one in '95 when the fire actually was beaten back at our door and this. Whew.

Thanks Bob!

RE: OT: Pt. Reyes light at 11:45am - GK3 - 09-09-2020

(09-09-2020, 11:53 AM)Phogge Wrote:  I have never seen anything like it. For those who shoot the exposure is at T2 at 250ASA. Unprecedented. Dark. The light is orange. Fog is trapping the smoke. I Phones and I Pads are color correcting and don't reveal the true color. We are in the seventeenth day of an evacuation order but the wonderful Federal/Marin County team backburned the last troubling forest undergrowth yesterday. We are very lucky. The gigantic fire north of us kicked up near Windsor and along the Russian River overnight. More evacs. And now a fire is barreling at Medford Oregon running right alongside I5. Most of Medford under an evacuation order. No doubt the worst year since 1861.

It is indeed strange.  No camera or camera phone I have can correctly capture the color and mood.  It is really odd and surreal.  Street lights on and everyone driving with their car lights on here in the far northern reaches of Coastal California.

RE: OT: Pt. Reyes light at 11:45am - pefloresjr - 09-09-2020

I can't see the photo.  Is it a link?  

Cheers,
Pete F.

RE: OT: Pt. Reyes light at 11:45am - BobK - 09-09-2020

Always thinking of you Phogge. Medford Oregon being evacuated and in North Oregon my daughter is now on Alert.

RE: OT: Pt. Reyes light at 11:45am - CompSci87 - 09-09-2020

(09-09-2020, 02:25 PM)GK3 Wrote:  
(09-09-2020, 11:53 AM)Phogge Wrote:  I have never seen anything like it. For those who shoot the exposure is at T2 at 250ASA. Unprecedented. Dark. The light is orange. Fog is trapping the smoke. I Phones and I Pads are color correcting and don't reveal the true color. We are in the seventeenth day of an evacuation order but the wonderful Federal/Marin County team backburned the last troubling forest undergrowth yesterday. We are very lucky. The gigantic fire north of us kicked up near Windsor and along the Russian River overnight. More evacs. And now a fire is barreling at Medford Oregon running right alongside I5. Most of Medford under an evacuation order. No doubt the worst year since 1861.

It is indeed strange.  No camera or camera phone I have can correctly capture the color and mood.  It is really odd and surreal.  Street lights on and everyone driving with their car lights on here in the far northern reaches of Coastal California.

Instant expertise via googling (obviously much less than what Phogge knows on the subject!):

Most phone camera software has auto white balance. Your phone's camera app, or a third party camera app, may have a pro mode where you can set the color temperature manually. I googled and found a statement that 5200K is similar to old fashioned "daylight" film. However, for me, just setting that on my camera app made the scene *too* sepia, while the sky still was too white, compared with how things looked to my eye. Maybe I needed manual exposure too.

RE: OT: Pt. Reyes light at 11:45am - Phogge - 09-09-2020

Shooting Super 35 negative I would sit in on the Rank transfer to digital and work from memory with the colorist. I think we could get a pretty close master of what I shot. But from a DP’s perspective very, very weird.

RE: OT: Pt. Reyes light at 11:45am - BostonCard - 09-10-2020

Some cool drone footage of San Francisco.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/9/21429437/san-francisco-sky-fire-drone-photographs-west-coast-wildfires

[Image: PANO0001-9.0.jpg]

BC

RE: OT: Pt. Reyes light at 11:45am - BostonCard - 09-10-2020

Enter the Thuderdome...

[tweet]https://twitter.com/OmarJimenez/status/1304065750324391936?s=20[/tweet]

BC

RE: OT: Pt. Reyes light at 11:45am - cctop - 09-10-2020

For those of you frustrated by the lack of controls on an iPhone, try the app "Halide" to get better control of white balance and other settings.

Meanwhile, in downtown San Francisco yesterday...

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RE: OT: Pt. Reyes light at 11:45am - WBB fan - 09-11-2020

(09-10-2020, 10:05 AM)BostonCard Wrote:  Some cool drone footage of San Francisco.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/9/21429437/san-francisco-sky-fire-drone-photographs-west-coast-wildfires

[Image: PANO0001-9.0.jpg]

BC

If you were in SF (or elsewhere in the Bay Area) on the 9th -- you know that this is what it really looked like. But if you didn't experience it, it must be very difficult to believe this isn't the result of photoshop or some such. Absolutely beyond belief, but it was real.


RE: OT: Pt. Reyes light at 11:45am - Bampa - 09-11-2020

I live in the wine country. I have never seen anything like it. It looked like the sky in some of those Mars movies. Just eerie as hell.

Very bad air today. Take care everyone...