Standing on the Banks of the Merced River and Taking in an Amazing View of Mountain Peaks (Black & White, Yosemite National Park)
It's hard to beat a late afternoon setting with a view like this! Here I was standing on the banks of the Merced River looking to the west with Yosemite Valley and the mountain peaks…wow! And yes, my Nikon SLR camera was ready :-)
For the image, I wanted to focus on that "wow" feeling anyone would have taking in a setting like this. Most of the day, I been slightly angling my camera downward in order to capture more of the foreground and not have as much "negative" blue space above. I decided to not follow that trend for this setting and keep the horizon more level, minimizing that river flowing by me, albeit with a slight amount for kind of a frame. I could then crop the some of the blue skies above and have more of that panoramic feeling for the final image.
Standing on the Banks of the Merced River and Taking in an Amazing View of Mountain Peaks (Black & White, Yosemite National Park)
It's hard to beat a late afternoon setting with a view like this! Here I was standing on the banks of the Merced River looking to the west with Yosemite Valley and the mountain peaks…wow! And yes, my Nikon SLR camera was ready :-)
For the image, I wanted to focus on that "wow" feeling anyone would have taking in a setting like this. Most of the day, I been slightly angling my camera downward in order to capture more of the foreground and not have as much "negative" blue space above. I decided to not follow that trend for this setting and keep the horizon more level, minimizing that river flowing by me, albeit with a slight amount for kind of a frame. I could then crop the some of the blue skies above and have more of that panoramic feeling for the final image.