{"id":53,"date":"2008-01-15T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/?p=53"},"modified":"2008-01-15T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T18:59:00","slug":"colorful-landscape-its-all-about-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/colorful-landscape-its-all-about-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorful Landscape &#8211; It&#8217;s All About Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_Fww7ts0xPNk\/R40Dl8mPkZI\/AAAAAAAAASM\/lkemc7q60Yc\/s1600-h\/dawn_color_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_Fww7ts0xPNk\/R40Dl8mPkZI\/AAAAAAAAASM\/lkemc7q60Yc\/s400\/dawn_color_1.jpg\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe photos in this post were all taken this morning within about two hours time. Up before dawn and watching the pretty clouds in the west, I thought it might be a good morning for a colorful dawn light glowing on the clouds and Lions Head. I put the wide angle on the camera and positioned the tripod as the first of the pink began to show up in the clouds.<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_Fww7ts0xPNk\/R40D_MmPkaI\/AAAAAAAAASU\/l9ImwtNZzW4\/s400\/dawn_color_2.jpg\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" \/><br \/>\nLater, with early sunlight on Lions Head I changed position to photographed trees still in shadow against the brightly lit rock of Cathedral and Lions Head. Where the earliest sunlight on Lions Head produces red and orange, a bit later the light reflected from the rocks is more yellow in color as seen below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_Fww7ts0xPNk\/R40E4MmPkbI\/AAAAAAAAASc\/zUOU-psalq8\/s400\/morning_light.jpg\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An hour later heavy clouds almost fill the sky and filter the light. The color in the photo below is so muted I could have got almost the same shot in black and white. <img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_Fww7ts0xPNk\/R40GRMmPkcI\/AAAAAAAAASk\/kIq23T4dFgc\/s400\/cloudy_view.jpg\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" \/><br \/>\nYet, the day is still good for color photography. When zooming in to photograph birds or flowers, or just about any close up of a subject, better color and detail is possible with overcast skies or filtered light rather than direct lighting. I put the wide angle lens away and switched to a macro lens to photograph orchids blooming in the house in the soft, cloud-filtered light from a window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photos in this post were all taken this morning within about two hours time. Up before dawn and watching the pretty clouds in the west, I thought it might be a good morning for a colorful dawn light glowing on the clouds and Lions Head. I put the wide angle on the camera and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lighting","category-lions-head"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}