LONDON! (Eclipse night)

Took this shot Tuesday of the Eclipse. It was not what I was expecting to get from the shot when I was heading over to the location. I was planning on getting a regular shot and fixing my composition from a previous trip here. And since I was still stuck in London with the Heathrow mess I might as well take more photos!! This was taken at 8:38 at night (just over 4 hours after sunset). My guess is the Eclipse made the sky this color when I left the shutter open for close to a minute... any other thoughts would be appreciated, but I thought it was about the best explanation since London was too cloudy to see the Eclipse. Hope you enjoy. C&C Very much appreciated

F/20
42 Second Exposure
Focal Length 12mm (on 30D)
ISO 125

I would kill myself if the sun set at 4:30 here.

A classic view. The sky is always strange muddy colours over London due to the terrible light pollution

robertwsimpson wrote in post #11593203
I would kill myself if the sun set at 4:30 here.

you get use to it, today's Sunrise: 7:47am, Sunset: 4:24pm I don't get to take many pictures in the winter due to this.

I complain about our sunrise/set, and we've got 2 more hours of daylight right now. I guess you make it up in the summer.

Nice shot! The sun sets at about the same time here and its always 20 deg F. Its killing me, as I just got a new camera and I can't use it.

great shot!

DLitton, you definitely didn't lose time in London. Another great photo.

WOW, great shot.

The colors are absolutely brilliant, nice shot

Thanks for the nice comments y'all

After looking over past shots of the Eye and being there for two weeks I would say no matter how much light pollution (slightly stated towars Anke) might be in this photograph, it does not merit the sky looking like this. I did not 'change' the color of the sky in Photoshop (if thats possible, im a PS noob), and thus I believe it was from the Eclipse and a cloudy sky this night.

Great photo! The eye can be difficult to capture without looking like every other photo ever taken of it, but you definitely got a new perspective with that sky. This makes me miss London so much!

Cheers mate. Yeah I miss it already, got to start saving to go see my friends again!

robertwsimpson wrote in post #11593203
I would kill myself if the sun set at 4:30 here.

I spend a lot of time in Switzerland and the winter's are depressing... but in the summer the sun doesn't set til after 10...

Mrslinger85 wrote in post #11614235
Nice shot! The sun sets at about the same time here and its always 20 deg F. Its killing me, as I just got a new camera and I can't use it.

I know what you mean I'm just outside of Chicago, by the time I'm done with work the sunlight is gone. By chance I do get the chance to shoot it's so cold I debate going out. Although I'm hoping for a big snow storm soon to do some snowboarding type portraits.