{"id":2079,"date":"2011-10-12T00:10:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T23:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2079"},"modified":"2013-11-07T21:50:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T21:50:17","slug":"golden-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/golden-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Well as luck would have it today was mainly overcast so it&#39;s a chance to catch up with the final shot from last night&#39;s blog. I took that shot of the cormorant shortly after 8.00am. It&#39;s not the best shot I&#39;ve taken (it&#39;s marginally out of focus, though at a small size you can&#39;t really tell), but the moment was one when, briefly, the sun broke through the cloud cover and produced a perfect golden light across the pond. That kind of light is why early morning and late afternoon are the favoured times for nature photography. It&#39;s not just that the low sun produces softer shadows, but for a brief few minutes &#8211; if conditions are right &#8211; the world turns a golden red. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cormorant_1010117083.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/0cormorant_1010117089.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Now because I got these shots almost immediately I&#39;d arrived, I hadn&#39;t got my camera settings sorted out from the previous day. The ISO was too low, which meant when the cormorant crossed against the trees, the shutter speed dropped alarmingly. Still I&#39;ll save these shots&#8230; Adobe are working on an editing enhancement that will <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5848371\/photoshop-will-end-blurry-pics-forever\" target=\"_blank\">de-blur any camera motion<\/a>.  <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cormorant_1010117096.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cormorant_1010117101.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Things got better as it emerged from the trees into the light.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cormorant_1010117113.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cormorant_1010117115_b.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As for today, it was time for low-light shooting&#8230; and high ISOs. This was at ISO 3200, which proves that even in poor light a usable shot is possible; but without that magical moment of golden light the colours are somewhat muted.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/heron_1110117406.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><a title=\"site stats\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/free-web-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/7187219\/0\/2c644058\/1\/\" alt=\"site stats\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D EF and 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[989],"tags":[449,1179,437,40],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-cormorant","tag-heron","tag-light","tag-photography","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}