Tough photo: dim morning light, lots of shade, getting brighter towards the top = "high dynamic range"; my Nikon D850 has high DR :-} --Notice the moon? Think a wall would beautify this place?
Course designed by Lanny Watkins. We did not play...too busy taking photos!
My Nikon was set on a tripod for another shot. As I waited for the light to improve, I noticed this scene with great depth of field (objects of interest both near and far). So I grabbed my ever-present iPhone 7 for this shot. (Shhh, shhhh!)
It was fairly dark. If I set my exposure for the moon, the rocks below would have been near black. So I exposed for the rocks, but the price paid was a "washed out" moon (no surface features visible.). Decisions, decisions.
It is actually darker than appears here... I "opened up the camera" that is, lengthened the exposure to 1/4 sec; it was before dawn and we wanted to capture the sunrise hitting the tops of the rocks. I needed a narrow aperture to get depth of field [sharpness from near to far], so my aperture was small (f/11)., We got up really early since we had to pack equipment, drive and walk to the site. In the dark. How many people DO that? Answer: 10 including me.
Colors, shapes, placement of background shadows, color..., mood, all these change as dawn progresses. In a few minutes a different shot. Yet some visitors sleep in!"
When you are at work you may daydream about ice fishing, but when ice fishing, you never daydream about being at work.
Me looking at bull, lightweight fence, big boulders... and estimating our running speeds..
Exposure starting point for 35mm camera is: Lens wide open (lowest f), time = 500/(mm of lens). So 20mm lens, about 500/20= 25 sec. I added 2 second of pen-light to the nearby tree so it would show, and 5 sec to exposure to reveal fainter stars. Tell no one my secrets!
What kind of crazy person drives all the way out to the canyon, then stands around taking photos with frozen hands and feet??
We do.
Facing south; the San Juan's run East-West (or maybe it's West-East I can never remember which)
Do they appreciate the view? just the grass... Taken with a crop-sensor Nikon D3300 28mm f/20 1/200 ISO 800; hey, makes a 20"x10" print!
What mistake did I make in this photo? I tilted my wide-angle lens upward to include the church's steeple.... and made the church "lean over backwards." Should I have pointed straight and cut off the steeple? Or gone farther back? [Tiny church] Or photographed something else? My head hurts.
Alpine was named for its mountains. [That was a joke.] No joke: Alpine has 42 art /photography galleries. I met a well-published photographer here, Jim Bones. We traded books, photos and info... I like little towns; you miss things if you only go to cities.