Go Further, Powered by the Light of the Sun (Denali State Park)
This was a point along the Little Coal Creek Trail that very forested with tall trees all around; this is a view looking to the east. I had two thoughts when composing and metering this image. The metering portion was to not blow or to minimize any highlights lost with the brighter portions of the clouds with sunshine. I knew I could later on pull out the more shadowed areas in the trees below later on in post production. I found a good enough shutter speed with the aperture setting used. The other idea in composing it was to back up as much as I could and use the Nikkor zoom lens that I tend to hike with. I knew that I would cut off the upper portions of the trees and not have some of the lower vegetation areas.
Go Further, Powered by the Light of the Sun (Denali State Park)
This was a point along the Little Coal Creek Trail that very forested with tall trees all around; this is a view looking to the east. I had two thoughts when composing and metering this image. The metering portion was to not blow or to minimize any highlights lost with the brighter portions of the clouds with sunshine. I knew I could later on pull out the more shadowed areas in the trees below later on in post production. I found a good enough shutter speed with the aperture setting used. The other idea in composing it was to back up as much as I could and use the Nikkor zoom lens that I tend to hike with. I knew that I would cut off the upper portions of the trees and not have some of the lower vegetation areas.