Caught the green flash tonight

[easyrider]

People are always telling me they have never seen the green flash at sunset in the ocean. I see it often but this was the first time catching it in a picture. I took this off our deck and the picture deffinitly isnt as good as the real thing.

Bill

 

[MrockStar]

We also saw it for the first time in Marathon Key over the new years break

 

[Passepartout]

I've never been able to capture the 'green flash' even with many, many tries! Good Job, Bill!

 

[artringwald]

I've never been able to capture the 'green flash' even with many, many tries! Good Job, Bill!

The best way to capture a green flash is to use a phone/camera that can take multiple pictures in rapid succession. You can also take a video, freeze the frame, and do a screen capture. The disadvantage of trying to capture it is that you stand a good chance of missing seeing it. That happened to my mom, and she never got another chance. It also happened to my brother, but saw the next one because he didn't try to capture it.

 

[PigsDad]

Nice job capturing the green flash!

A few years back I was on a flight from Pisa to Frankfurt that took off shortly before sunset and we had perfectly clear skies. I had a window seat, and as the sun set down over the Alps, the conditions were perfect and I saw the most clear green flash I had ever seen. But because of the terrain of the Alps, the sun would peek up and go down several times over the next few minutes, and I ended up seeing the green flash almost every time that happened, probably 7-10 times. It was amazing!

Kurt

 

[Makai Guy]

You can also take a video, freeze the frame, and do a screen capture.

I've produced the newsletter for our local college's senior education Lifelong Learning program for many years. As a result I've taken pictures of speakers at many functions, and I learned this lesson a long time ago. Between my reaction times and shutter response delays it's almost impossible to get a still picture of an active speaker that provides a usable facial expression unless I take a short video and select for the best frame.

 

[gps60255]

Nice,I will have to show it to my wife. We have seen over 300 sunset's on the Big Island and have not seen one. My wife thinks it is a BIG LIE. Conspiracy theory.

 

[pagosajim]

People are always telling me they have never seen the green flash at sunset in the ocean. I see it often but this was the first time catching it in a picture. I took this off our deck and the picture deffinitly isnt as good as the real thing.

Bill

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uh, guess I'm not in on the inside info here....

where exactly is this "green flash" in the picture?

 

[DrQ]

where exactly is this "green flash" in the picture?

The sun turns from yellow to green as it goes past the horizon.

 

[ScoopKona]

At our location, so long as there are no clouds near the horizon, every sunset is a 50/50 shot.

Lived in Key West for 20 years and saw a half-way flash, not enough to brag about. I've lost count of how many I see here. My friend Dave shoots every sunset and has a gallery of green flashes.

 

[klpca]

uh, guess I'm not in on the inside info here....

where exactly is this "green flash" in the picture?

To the left of the tall palm, on the horizon.

 

[DrQ]

where exactly is this "green flash" in the picture?

It's not a "flash" like a flash bulb, it's a flash in the sense that the sun turns green and then is gone in a flash.

 

[Patri]

uh, guess I'm not in on the inside info here....

where exactly is this "green flash" in the picture?

Flash obviously has different definitions.

 

[simpsontruckdriver]

I have the Nikon D810, and with many DSLRs and mirrorless, you can set the camera to do time-lapse or burst (hundreds of photos at a time). So, it is possible to catch with the right equipment and the best settings. But, like with anything in life, "practice makes perfect".

TS