{"id":2452,"date":"2012-03-10T00:14:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T05:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2012-12-21T10:28:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T15:28:02","slug":"potd-last-light-on-el-capitan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=2452","title":{"rendered":"POTD: Last Light on El Capitan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2453\" style=\"width: 409px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/901230_Last_Light_El_Capitan_ANW-24_w6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2453\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2453\" title=\"Last Light on El Capitan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/901230_Last_Light_El_Capitan_ANW-24_w6.jpg\" alt=\"Last Light on El Capitan\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last Light on El Capitan, Yosemite National Park<\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif,sans-serif;\">Yosemite National Park is a spectacular place to visit in any season of the year. If you are there in the winter, the ideal time to create images is right after a snowfall when snow coats the trees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif,sans-serif;\">The &#8220;golden hours&#8221; right before and after sunrise and sunset are a favorite time of day for landscape photographers because you often find the best light of the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif,sans-serif;\">I was in Yosemite Valley at the end of a cloudy day and it was getting darker. I thought I was done for the day when the clouds began to lift, allowing the last warm rays of sunlight to paint part of the face of El Capitan. I wasn&#8217;t in a good spot to photograph El Capitan so I had to drive to a better location, hike quickly in the deep snow to a good location with a nice foreground, set up my tripod, and grab a few frames before the light show was over. The light lasted only a few minutes and I barely made it to a good location. I liked the cool, blue foreground light on the snow covered trees which provided a nice contrast to the warm light on El Capitan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif,sans-serif;\">My camera didn&#8217;t have a spot meter, so I couldn&#8217;t meter the narrow band of sunset light on El Capitan. I didn&#8217;t want the meter to be fooled by the darker light in the shadows so I metered the blue sky in the upper left of the frame, picking an initial exposure that would make the sky a medium blue tone. Then I bracketed exposures on either side of the initial exposure to be sure I had the best possible exposure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif,sans-serif;\">Exposure data was unrecorded. I was using Fujichrome 50 slide film in a Canon AE-1 camera.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif,sans-serif;\">More information about exposure is in my highly rated book, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/jimdoty.com\/learn\/exp_book\/exp_book.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif,sans-serif;\"><em>Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies<\/em><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif,sans-serif;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">You can order a print of the above photo at <a href=\"http:\/\/jimdoty.zenfolio.com\/\">JimDoty.Zenfolio.com<\/a> in the California gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yosemite National Park is a spectacular place to visit in any season of the year. If you are there in the winter, the ideal time to create images is right after a snowfall when snow coats the trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-metering","category-photo-locations","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3559,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}