summer nature photos from finland Luminous night clouds in August (take II)

Lovely sky color gradation from deep blue to light pink !

White clouds lacing sky and dark black house standing horizon matches well.

A lovely photograph it is.

 

This is a night cloud photo from Finland. How do you rate and comment

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Beautiful colours. You seem to have got it just right. Such beauty around us as we sleep. Can you remember what time of the night it was when you made the exposure? Just curious.

How did you get those colours??

The exposure time was around midnight about 0:30AM. Here in Finland it newer gets totally dark during summer (May to August) nights. At these latitudes the sun is so near below the horizon that it lights these upper clouds (at 80km high), but the background sky is still quite dark. In the large version of this photo you can see some faint stars in the upper left corner, which are part of the Big Dipper in Ursa Major.

 

The colors are as they were in the nature at photographing moment. My film scanner made some compromises to the image quality (in the original photo the light clouds had more contrast to the background as they have here in this scan). Part culprit to colors is the film used here (Agfachrome RS 50), which is quite neutral in its color rendition.

Love the colours - lovely photo.

Excellent colouring and well researched. My only criticism / sugestion would be to crop out the portion of tree and the bush below on the left side which I think would simplify the image.

It's a great pic that would benefit from some cropping. I would personally have cropped the image to the left so the tree wouldn't have been on the photo. Otherwise, very nice, something you only can find here in Scandinavia:-)

Great color...I enjoyed looking at your shots...they are all super..