Ok Roman... you need to have your rear-end kicked... I'll have to hire that out though... can't risk screwing up my hiking feet :D I got up at 5am... drove almost two hours in the dark, skipped breakfast, climbed a cactus covered hill with a tripod, lens bag, and all kinds of extraneous crap that never got used, only to be greeted by clouds. Who ordered the clouds? I didn't order clouds...
Ok... seriously... you were right... I wasn't <-- that's technically not saying wrong... I'm just sayin... :D
This is not the shot that I went for but even so it beats the socks off of the version that I posted a few days ago. I can't wait to see what it looks like with the sun kissing all the right places. For now it will do as validation for shooting in morning light and using a graduated ND (I ordered a 3 stop filter before I left to come out here)
(1) Your sig line about the 3 stop graduated ND filter is so on target it's not funny. I had to dig out my old Galen Rowell 2 stop ND filter and Cokin "P" holder but it was worth it (I'm glad that I kept all that stuff). I was wishing for 1 more stop... maybe two... with the light that I had, but using a filter beats anything that Photoshop has to offer. Why is it that when I went to digital my brain cells stopped functioning? I stopped being a photographer... shame on me... thank you Roman...
(2) There is something spiritual about being the only person in the middle of nowhere, standing on a hill in the desert, waiting for the sun to come up. I actually took the time to be a photographer and I truly did enjoy myself. I used MLU. I used a cable release. I used a tripod. I composed the image... wow... amazing... :)
EOS1DsMKIII manual. MLU. Cable release
24-70 f2.8L @ 32mm with a two stop graduated neutral density filter in a Cokin "P" holder (note: this combo doesn't work at 24mm. There is significant vignetting in the corners. Cokin makes a holder for wide angle lenses)
Gitzo tripod w/ Arca-Swiss ballhead
ISO 100
1/10s @f8
Also, I used the graduated ND filter in ACR to decrease the sky 1 stop. I have a real 3 stop GND filter ordered :)







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