Mountain Shadows at Sunrise

[AlanLichty]

I got an interesting sunrise yesterday morning ending a very long draught of morning colors. It didn't last long at all and the really interesting effects only lasted a couple of minutes but I managed to get my drone up in the air just in time to catch what looked like the peak colors. The colors died back to just the patch at the horizon and Mt. Hood's shadow disappeared in less than two minutes after I started the drone's motors. I was in such a hurry to start shooting I didn't wait for a GPS lock on the drone so the drone's software wouldn't let my drone ascend to more than 100' while it was gathering info from the GPS satellites. I just turned it around and started shooting anyway and this was the first shot. Single panel at 28mm.

Interesting to note that the cameras on the Mavic 4 Pro seem to collect a lot more light than my old Mavic 3 Pro. It was still fairly dark when I shot this but the drone pulled up so much light and detail on the foreground houses I decided to add a graduated filter on the ground layer to darken it so they wouldn't be distracting.

C&C always welcome.

 

[JimFox]

It's always a bit exciting to get a photo of a fast changing situation. Especially when things don't go right or cause a hiccup like the gps not being locked in. But through it you caught a great photo Alan. It shows the power of prep and familiarity of our gear.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nice color in the skies and the mountain shadow is a bonus.

 

[AlanLichty]

It's always a bit exciting to get a photo of a fast changing situation. Especially when things don't go right or cause a hiccup like the gps not being locked in. But through it you caught a great photo Alan. It shows the power of prep and familiarity of our gear.

Thanks Jim - I had hopes the sunrise colors would spread across the underside of the clouds but that hope collapsed quickly. I knew I was going to be flying anywhere that would need a GPS lock but the builtin safeguards require the home point lock before you can do much. Happily that doesn't stop you from shooting at 100'

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice color in the skies and the mountain shadow is a bonus.

Thanks Jameel - both the colors and the shadow were very short lived. We might have about a week of possible morning color shows after tomorrow. I had hopes for this morning but nothing came out of it.