Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Fifteen minutes

I haven't had time to do much with my images from Sunday morning yet (let alone the gigantic backlog of images that I think need to be shown off), but I wanted to share the below juxtaposition. The two images are both composites of 9 images each. The two sets were taken 15 minutes apart. The left one about 13 minutes before sunrise, and the right one about a minute or two after that. The difference in mood and color is very large as I am sure I don't have to tell you. I always love the light just before sunrise. A minute later after the second image the sunrise light got even more intense as I already showed yesterday. the Click the image to see the comparison larger. The mountain is Notchtop mountain and the frozen lake is called Lake Helene. The lake is reached after a 3.2 miles hike from Bear Lake trailhead. Normally that is an easy hike (moderate in the guide books) but at night in the blowing snow and with a disappearing trail because of that, that is a little more challenging. More about that later.

Because of the format of this blog, I can only include a small image inline here, so you should really click to scale it up to a nicer size.

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6 comments:

  1. obakesanNovember 1, 2011 at 6:49 PM

    its one of the reasons I love digital and one which was a hassle for me with film. You just can't seem to see with your eye when the best moment was for capture.

    Perhaps there can be many?

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  2. Jao van de LagemaatNovember 1, 2011 at 8:59 PM

    Right. It can create the inverse problem though of having far too many "keepers" in the final set. How to choose the best is something I struggle with.

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  3. skyMyrkaNovember 2, 2011 at 5:47 PM

    I'm curious, what was your WB setting?

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  4. Jao van de LagemaatNovember 2, 2011 at 6:25 PM

    For the left image (the cool one presunrise) I used 7500K/tint 0 but could have gone further (auto goes to over 8000K and destroys the cool blue) and for the right one (the one with the warm light) 7000K/tint 0. The light really changed very strongly. I mostly aimed to get colors as I remembered them.

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  5. skyMyrkaNovember 5, 2011 at 10:08 AM

    Just curious about the difference w/WB set to the same value. Tones can really fool the eye. Dominant blue generally translates to darker impression.

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  6. Jao van de LagemaatNovember 5, 2011 at 10:21 AM

    I see and you are right about perceived darkness of cool tones. At the same WB the difference is more extreme between cold and warm. Currently the values are very close already. I slightly warmed the blue picture on the left and slightly cooled the after sunrise one on the right because I think it looks better. I wanted the ice on the right still to have some blue tint which is what I perceived being there.

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