After last summer's fire

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After last summer's fire

Postby photohiker on Sun Aug 24, 2008 10:56 am

I found myself on the edge of a burnt out area at Mt Lofty (near Adelaide) yesterday.

One thing I learned: Getting reasonable exposures of dark subjects even in muted overcast daylight is quite a challenge. Excluding the sky helps, but the metering system tries to render black to grey. I set manual mode for a few of them.

The area has been thoroughly burnt out.

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And just to alleviate the bleakness. There are some excellent wattles on show a few metres down the track.

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C&C Welcome. :)
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Re: After last summer's fire

Postby surenj on Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:31 pm

Bit of offcamera flash can sometimes help boost images like the first one, which is my favourite out of this lot... you could cheat and add some fog for a bit of atmosphere (literally)
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