UCLA in forest fire light

mmroden

Hi everyone,

As you may know, there's some forest fires in Southern California, and it's really doing odd things to our skies. I managed to make it to UCLA for the last few moments of daylight, and got this shot:



I've postprocessed it some (seems that my camera doesn't like the reds so much), but I hope not too much or too obviously.

Here's the rest, for fans of UCLA:

http://mmroden.smugmug.com/gallery/1916762

BeachBill

mmroden wrote:

As you may know, there's some forest fires in Southern California, and it's really doing odd things to our skies.

Ooh, I really like the inverted fountain photo.

We will probably be seeing a lot of forest fire sunset photos shortly. Yesterday a fellow photographer in another group posted his shots of this sunset at http://www.pbase.com/snowlep/laguna_sunset

I on the other hand was driving to my Photoshop class and could only look at the orange/brown sky... It was amazing how the wind pushed the smoke out over the ocean then south along the coast.

mmroden

Thanks!

I know what you mean-- I was driving north, watching the sky do crazy things, hoping I'd get home in time to get my camera... Not much time once I got it, but it seemed to work out well

Seefutlung

Nice sky ... crummy school. (lol)

Tommy T

ChrisJ

Beautiful shot... I took a couple pictures on the way home that day, but I left too early to get that nice color.

BeachBil, I love the fountain too... unfortunately, they've had it turned off for months now. Classes start next week, so maybe they'll finally turn it on again.

mmroden

Yeah, that is not a recent shot of the fountain, it's from maybe the last few weeks they ran it (and I'd just gotten my brand new tasty Nikon 17-55...)

The first person I showed that to thought that I'd made it whole cloth in some 3d rendering program. In his mind, it would be easier to do that than to try to get the shot... I thought it was a pretty good compliment