Hello #Hive photography lovers!... Today we had a bright and "curiously fog-free" sunrise here... And I say this because since last October our mornings have been very regularly shrouded in fog. And this is a nice thing, I admit, I love fog and taking pictures when it's foggy, but... Gee, after many a cloudy sunrise it's always nice to have a clearer and sunnier sky!...
18 mm | 1/500s | f/8| ISO 100
18 mm | 1/320s | f/8| ISO 100
18 mm | 1/50s | f/5| ISO 1000
24 mm | 1/160s | f/9| ISO 320
So, today as soon as I got up and walked out into my backyard, I realised that it would be a clear morning (it was only 5:30 AM, but usually at that time it is possible to tell by looking at the horizon what the sunrise will be like)... I made myself a coffee, ate a few slices of bread, grabbed my camera and headed out into the still partly dark street towards the south of town, wanting to go towards the roads that lead to the pastures at the foot of the mountains...
46 mm | 1/640s | f/7.1| ISO 100
18 mm | 1/400s | f/8| ISO 125
22 mm | 1/2500s | f/8| ISO 125
18 mm | 1/1600s | f/8| ISO 125
The distance from my house to these rads is only a couple of kilometres, so in a short time I was in the middle of nature, taking pictures pleasantly and breathing the fresh air of the sunrise. For this I took with me my old "kit lens" a small 18-55mm zoom lens which I have been using recently to take landscape pictures... The rest was simple: Set the camera to semi-automatic aperture mode (P) and play around with ISO, apertures and underexposure (crucial when it comes to backlighting towards the horizon in the rising sun)...
18 mm | 1/250s | f/8| ISO 125
18 mm | 1/8000s | f/8| ISO 125
18 mm | 1/125s | f/8| ISO 125
The road is flat and straight, running from north to south and therefore on my right side (on the way out) I have the horizon with the rising sun and on my left side I have the mountains to the west of the valley. This allows me to take very diverse and also very changeable photos due to the rapidity with which the luminosity changes in the early morning hours. This is fun and also a bit demanding for photographic purposes... An ideal recipe for a morning walk with photos of course!
55 mm | 1/80s | f/8| ISO 125
55 mm | 1/400s | f/8| ISO 100
ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL NOTE: Photographs captured with my Nikon D7000 DSLR camera in RAW format, then processed in Adobe Camera RAW for adjustments regarding light, sharpening, contrast and depth... The pictures are then exported to JPG format on which minor modifications such as straightening and adding watermarks were carried out using PhotoScape 3.6.3. and/or Photoshop.
18 mm | 1/160s | f/8| ISO 100
18 mm | 1/160s | f/8| ISO 125
In this picture to close my today's publication appears "The shadow of the madman with camera in hand" (as some locals affectionately call me 😂)...
Thank you very much for your visit and appreciation!
"We make photographs to understand what our lives mean to ourselves." - Ralph Hattersley.
Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
Montalbán, Carabobo, Venezuela.