There will likely be alot of shots from this event in the coming challenges.
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Awesome, thanks for the great comments and good votes everybody.
After sunset is the best time of day to photograph volcanos. I have narrowed it down to a 15 minute time frame that renders the best light both for the flying magma and the fore/background.
We stayed up at the volcano for about 10 hours, viewing, measuring, photographing and absorbing this event. At one point it got pretty scary, see this photo from Gummi Stóri: Steam Explosion.
The area around the volcano is very mountainous with deep canyons. The lava started to flow down one of these canyons. In the 200-300m deep canyon a big chunk of 1000°C lava collapsed on top of ice and snow turning it instantly into steam, 1700 times the volume of the ice/snow. The explosion was so big it sent large stones flying hundreds of meters into the air. When we realized that the stones where coming our way we ran like hell. I managed to throw myself behind a car. Luckily enough all of the 20-30 people there escaped unharmed.
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You know that your photo has a WOW impact of 1.000.000.000 !!!
But,as you asked, here are some ideas:
1 - Insert a color border around the image.
2 - The image is a little light. Try to darker it a little.
3 - I believe the subject could be more centered.
"I managed to throw myself behind a car. Luckily enough all of the 20-30 people there escaped unharmed...." No camera damage I hope! I am glad everyone was ok. Good shot here too!
We will see lots of shots of this event on DPC because it's an awesome scene- which you happen to have captured extremely well here. Congrats on your blue!
Great eruption photo -- no offense intended to other photographers, but I think this is better than any of the eruption entries in the Orange challenge.
cooool.. where is this? Hawaii? Seems like too much snow in the background for Mauna Kea/Mauna Loa, and those mountains in the background aren't the right shape anyway. Perhaps in Iceland, seeing as a lot of DPC members seem to hail from Iceland.
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