{"id":2129,"date":"2011-12-05T23:12:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T23:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2129"},"modified":"2013-11-07T18:43:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T18:43:51","slug":"pure-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/pure-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

At this time of year if the mornings are clear there is a perfect golden moment as the sun rises above the hills and illuminates everything before it. The moment lasts about 10-15 minutes and then slowly fades as the angle of light sharpens. This shot illustrates the light perfectly, taken at 8:13 this morning.
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Just five minutes earlier it was only the airborne creatures that caught the sun as they flew over the pond.
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And by about 8:20 the light had already lost that rich hue, as the sun rose slightly higher. I'm not about to complain. It was cold out there today, and 15 minutes is ample time to be fiddling with camera controls with frozen fingers.<\/p>\n

One shot from later in the day… the sun was still doing it's best and at this time of year is relatively low in the sky whatever the time of day. This is at 12:45. The light was not bad, but certainly nothing like so good as at the start of the day.
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS 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":[813,989],"tags":[449,1160,1199],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunrise","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-cormorant","tag-duck","tag-sunrise","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