On 2/18/2016 2:24 PM, bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Moose wrote
One of our favorite sections of a favorite road.
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We went out
wandering yesterday in West Marin and Sonoma Cos. ...
Wanderin'
Moose
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Images with great potential.
I'd like to think I got at least part way there.
Now your challenge is to figure out the lighting
and atmospheric conditions which will yield totally outstanding shots
:-)
And act on them. !!
Weellll ... I thought I had done that.
We had been along those roads five days before, but without time in hand to stop and mess about with photography. I'd
originally meant to leave earlier, but something came up at home that delayed us and we were meeting friends for dinner
at a place and time certain. OTOH, had we passed through earlier, I might not have seen the potential of later light.
This trip was specifically for photography. I chose a day with similar weather, only five days later, and hit the key
spots at the same times of day. The light was not quite as intense for some subjects as before, so I skipped a couple
for now, but pretty similar. OTOH, the same slightly greater cloud cover that softened some light contributed much more
interesting clouds for the panorama I just posted and some other shots I haven't (yet?) posted.
I have a hard time envisioning better straight shots of either, to my taste. I could see trying to catch them as sun
just starts warming and breaking up fog. Maybe possible, but I'm not sure, nor sure when.
Maybe I just need better subjects? I don't see myself getting better versions anytime soon. To do so, I would have to
visit many times. It's only maybe an hour to the 'tunnel', maybe 30 min. more to the tree - if one drives directly,
without a lot of stops. But it passes over a bridge that has appalling afternoon commute traffic coming back. The only
sensible solution is to stay across the Bay for dinner, as we did Tuesday. So it really takes most of a day for each
visit. And then ... there are many more highly photogenic places and things close by, both to these images and to us, to
be considered, too.
The other alternative is to abandon planning and rely on sheer luck. :-)
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I can't imagine I could ever get this shot through planning. Well, maybe by camping there for days at a time every
January, although many would just be rainy.. The particular confluence of sun angle, light clouds and a lot of moisture
in the air, not quite fog, but enough to effect the light made the magic for only a few minutes that day as we passed
by. by the time I turned around, got out the tripod and set up, I may have missed the very best light, and the magic was
all gone as I packed up a handful of minutes later.
Thanks for looking and commenting!
Idealistic Moose
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What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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