Georgia sunrise with crescent Moon

[Fumesucker]

I captured this image this morning 1-21-09 with my Lumix FX07, used Neat Image to denoise it and Irfanview to adjust brightness, contrast and resize..

[Celebration]

1. Beautiful picture

I love the symbolism of these dawn pictures, the day after the Inauguration. Thanks for posting.

It's a new day!

[Fumesucker]

2. Yep, first sunrise of the new era.. n/t

[Fumesucker]

3. And here is a song to go with it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmyZdEoSXSg

[JeffR]

4. That just sings.

What was the exposure time?

[Fumesucker]

6. Exposure was 1/100 at f2.8 and ISO 100

I had to underexpose by two stops to keep the crescent Moon from becoming bloated since it is nearly a point source much brighter than the surrounding sky. Brightening the image with Irfanview compensated for the underexposure to a big extent although the actual scene was a bit brighter than the resulting final image.

35mm equivalent focal length was 28mm, one of the reasons I chose the Lumix FX07 is because it has a wider angle lens than the average point and shoot compact.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

5. nice..

Did you know Hope Arkansas had a split Sun in 2006?

[Fumesucker]

7. Cool image..

I actually saw the "green flash" once when I was working on an offshore oil rig back in the early eighties, didn't have a camera on me, more's the pity.

Here's a sunset image I got a couple of days ago, 28mm efl, 1 second at IS0 100, handheld with my hands braced on top of the car. The "star" in the image is Venus..