Mount Canin/Kanin Top Peak and Its Highest Part Chain at Late Dusk; Julian Alps, Udine, FVG, Italia
21-April-2023
It was almost dark when I took this photo, a "panoramic close up".
The photo is made up of 5 vertical shots, each one obtained with a 25-second exposure and F2.8 aperture, exploiting the weak remaining sunlight and above all the high reflectivity of the fresh snow which becomes, temporarily, during this particular moment of the day, a sort of primary source of enlightenment (although it is actually only derivative).
It was so dark that I had to use the headlamp to set up the camera and overexpose the viewfinder to figure out how to compose the whole photo, using a medium optical zoom for my prosumer (about 9X from 24mm), to focus only on the mountain range and increase the detail, despite the little light.
I was uncertain and I was afraid that the autofocus could not do its duty for all 5 shots, as often in these cases, especially when zooming, while the manual focus is not very usable, failing, in preview, to see the chain as seen in the final result.
It was useful, as the Canin/Kanin, the rainiest (3000mm/year) and snowiest (1500cm/year) of the Alps, remained partially covered by clouds until this moment, when the mountain breezes freed large part of the range with some low clouds/fog patches which resist by condensing in contact with the fresh snow at about 2200m a.s.l....right in the area/plateau where some residues of the ancient Glacier still exist, it was the lowest in the Italian Alps.
Mount Canin/Kanin Top Peak and Its Highest Part Chain at Late Dusk; Julian Alps, Udine, FVG, Italia
21-April-2023
It was almost dark when I took this photo, a "panoramic close up".
The photo is made up of 5 vertical shots, each one obtained with a 25-second exposure and F2.8 aperture, exploiting the weak remaining sunlight and above all the high reflectivity of the fresh snow which becomes, temporarily, during this particular moment of the day, a sort of primary source of enlightenment (although it is actually only derivative).
It was so dark that I had to use the headlamp to set up the camera and overexpose the viewfinder to figure out how to compose the whole photo, using a medium optical zoom for my prosumer (about 9X from 24mm), to focus only on the mountain range and increase the detail, despite the little light.
I was uncertain and I was afraid that the autofocus could not do its duty for all 5 shots, as often in these cases, especially when zooming, while the manual focus is not very usable, failing, in preview, to see the chain as seen in the final result.
It was useful, as the Canin/Kanin, the rainiest (3000mm/year) and snowiest (1500cm/year) of the Alps, remained partially covered by clouds until this moment, when the mountain breezes freed large part of the range with some low clouds/fog patches which resist by condensing in contact with the fresh snow at about 2200m a.s.l....right in the area/plateau where some residues of the ancient Glacier still exist, it was the lowest in the Italian Alps.