{"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

Well as luck would have it today was mainly overcast so it's a chance to catch up with the final shot from last night's blog. I took that shot of the cormorant shortly after 8.00am. It's not the best shot I've taken (it's marginally out of focus, though at a small size you can'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's not just that the low sun produces softer shadows, but for a brief few minutes – if conditions are right – the world turns a golden red.
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Now because I got these shots almost immediately I'd arrived, I hadn'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'll save these shots… Adobe are working on an editing enhancement that will de-blur any camera motion<\/a>.
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Things got better as it emerged from the trees into the light.
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As for today, it was time for low-light shooting… 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.
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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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t