An Eye In The Sky

It seems like every time that there is a power cut, I go outside to take a picture of the sky. Truth is, I was talking to my neighbor outside because the whole neighborhood was engulfed in darkness, so there was no point staying inside doing nothing. We looked up at the moon and noticed it was creating this sort of colorful halo.

I went back inside the house, grabbed my camera and a tripod and began to take pictures. it was difficult to get a proper exposure of the moon, halo and clouds, because the moon was immensely bright, it hugely overexposed in slow shutters.

I thought of another way to get around the problem by taking a few exposures and rendering an HDR image of it. It was only taken with three exposures so the moon is still slightly overexposed, but at least the clouds got decent exposure as well.

Sun Halo

I have posted this event before which happened last year but by some accident 2 days ago, I noticed this sun halo when I was taking a random photo of a street which I would not have noticed even if I looked directly at the sky because it was really bright that day.

It makes me wonder if other people had noticed too. This image is actually 2 images stitched together to create a wider field of view because my lens, even at its 18mm [28.8mm equivalent because of the 1.6x crop factor] widest focal length, could not fit the entire circle.

I included the roof of this building to emphasize the sun halo.