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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Chris Calohan on March 11, 2015, 10:52:27 pm

Title: A Slight Break in the Fog
Post by: Chris Calohan on March 11, 2015, 10:52:27 pm: It was thick as the proverbial Pea Soup this morning...
Title: Re: A Slight Break in the Fog
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on March 12, 2015, 05:26:43 am: I like this simple, yet mysterious image.
Title: Re: A Slight Break in the Fog
Post by: Chris Calohan on March 12, 2015, 09:42:26 am: I think two days ago I could not have made this exposure as easily as I did yesterday as I discovered through a tip, a suggestion Nikon makes regarding the D810 metering. It is called Matrix Highlighting Mode and it does remarkably well in controlling high whites in an image.

http://nps.nikonimaging.com/technical_solutions/d810_tips/highlight/ (http://nps.nikonimaging.com/technical_solutions/d810_tips/highlight/)

Try it...you'll like it!
Title: Re: A Slight Break in the Fog
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 12, 2015, 10:42:51 pm: Very fine image, Chris.
Are you giving Nikon all the credit for it? I somehow suspect the guy behind the camera did his part pretty well, too.
Title: Re: A Slight Break in the Fog
Post by: Chris Calohan on March 13, 2015, 02:08:56 pm: No, but Nikon was a nice assistant. :-)
Title: Re: A Slight Break in the Fog
Post by: maddogmurph on March 13, 2015, 03:21:25 pm: And this was the moon rise over grumpy cats house. Grumpy cat also hates your stick figure family.
Title: Re: A Slight Break in the Fog
Post by: Chris Calohan on March 13, 2015, 03:37:08 pm: I have to admit to absolute bafflement as to what your post means, Murph...it is a sun in the fog not a moon rising anywhere...
Title: Re: A Slight Break in the Fog
Post by: maddogmurph on March 17, 2015, 07:11:51 pm: Oh, well it looked to me like a frowning face. Regardless of moon or sun. Reminded me of a bumper sticker I saw on a car with a picture of "Grumpy Cat" and the text: Grumpy cat hates your stick figure family.