Toofan, how did you take the first shot? Settings?
He took the picture with a Canon SX110 IS. Settings are:
ISO = 100
Shutter speed = 1/160 sec
Aperture = 3.5
Focal length = 20.1mm (3.35x zoom), equiv. to 120mm for a 35mm camera
No flash
Scene-average metering
@toofan : You should set your camera clock. It looks as if you shot the picture at 3:51 AM and that's probably not true. Nice picture. I've never had a chance to take a good shot of a snake. Here's a couple of pictures of some unusual cloud formations.
The diffracted sunlight is beautiful in this shot:
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This shot shows what appear to be shadows of the cloud on a thin
higher layer of cloud, but that's impossible. We had an interesting discussion of the phenomenon in a newsgroup a couple of years ago.
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