Scott Matthews caught an amazing phenomenon from his apartment on 106th street Friday morning — a plane taking off from La Guardia crossed through a “light pillar” just as his finger squeezed the shutter.
For more on the phenomenon, we conferred with Wikipedia: “A light pillar is an atmospheric optical phenomenon in the form of a vertical band of light which appears to extend above and/or below a light source. The effect is created by the reflection of light from numerous tiny ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere or clouds.”
Scott, wonderful.
if you get a chance: what are you shooting with? and did you use any enhancement techniques with this shot?
It appears that an HDR filter was applied tot he image. Very cool nontheless.
I try to be gear-agnostic. That said, I use a Sony back with “adapted” manual focus lenses. Feel free to email me via my site if you want more details. Regarding “enhancement” — I shoot ‘RAW’ and I *always* adjust various attributes to bring out the details present in the capture. Per JR’s comment, I wouldn’t exactly say I use anything like an “HDR filter” — however, I do manually adjust shadows, highlights, white balance, etc. (again working from a RAW file) to bring out what what present in the scene. (And, fwiw, most digital cameras that shoot JPG will *automatically* guess and apply such settings.)
Scott,Scott. I knew it was your picture right away. Who else? They just get better & better! Kudos…☆☆
It’s B.S picture. No plane, just a spect of dirt.