Incredible Crepuscular Rays: Sunbeams Caught on Camera

By Queuebot in Art, Pictures on Jan 30, 2010 at 4:45 pm

Crepuscular rays – sunbeams to most of us – can be caught by a camera, mostly just after sunrise and just before sunset (hence the name). Many photographers will loiter for what seems an age to capture the right light and techniques used are known variously as The Golden Hour, Chiaroscura and the Rembrandt effect – all of which those little (or large) sunbeams can help. Here in a remarkable series of images, take in the beauty of those rays.

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(image credit: Flickr user Pear Biter)

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by taliesyn30.

Tags: chiaroscura, crepuscular rays, golden hour, rembrandt effect

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Mike Lynn
Jan 30th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
This is way too similar to http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/incredible-crepuscular-r ays to be a coincidence.
Johnny Cat
Jan 30th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
Actually, aside from the subject matter, there’s no similarity. I like the Quazen article better.
taliesyn30
Jan 30th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
The Quazen article, although published later is much more descriptive, seems to know something about photographic technique and isn’t just an excuse for a stream of pictures, as the environmental graffiti one is…
pyrit
Jan 30th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Spectacular photos.
Only thing missing in the sun beams is a curled up cat.
Mike Lynn
Jan 31st, 2010 at 10:47 am
Fair enough.
Gail Pink
Feb 1st, 2010 at 3:19 pm
That picture is stunning.
AnthonyC
Feb 2nd, 2010 at 3:22 pm
I clearly don’t spend enough time outdoors.

I always assumed sunbeams were just a bad rendering effect that showed up in CG and games, not something that showed up in actual photos.
Robert
Feb 2nd, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Cool, but I think HDR photography has kind of hit its saturation point.

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