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| We became flower children this weekend. Hiking to Silver Creek Pass near Marble, Colorado. Flowers at timberline and just above are in full bloom. Sharp yellows and blues you can taste, punctuated by numerous columbines with their elegant pastels. Soul food. |
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-Exposure time: 1/1250 (wind was blowing, used fast speed to freeze motion of flowers)
-F-stop: 2.8 (wanted as much selective focus as possible, so background would be blurred enough to separate from foreground, would have liked a bit more)
-Flash: Not fired (could have used flash for a cliche’ type wildflower shot)
-Exposure mode: Manual (used AV, aperture prefered, to force F 2.8)
-White balance: Auto (Canon cameras have good white balance for summer outdoor shots)
-Orientation: Left-bottom (position of focus box, which can be moved around)
-Exposure bias: -0.3333 (slightly under-exposed from meter reading, to keep sky blue, then lightened foreground midtones a bit while processing in P-shop)
WildSnow.com publisher emeritus and founder Lou (Louis Dawson) has a 50+ years career in climbing, backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering. He was the first person in history to ski down all 54 Colorado 14,000-foot peaks, has authored numerous books about about backcountry skiing, and has skied from the summit of Denali in Alaska, North America’s highest mountain.
