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Early Light: Highpoint<\/h4>\n

During the chase of Team Zeiss for the World Series of Birding we made stops in some of the most beautiful country in New Jersey, and, though I was focused on documenting the Team\u2019s efforts for the day, I was not totally insensitive to the beauty\u2026and since I was not actually competing, I could turn my camera away from the team for a quick landscape, or even a flower shot, or two.<\/p>\n

This is somewhere in the Highpoint\/Stokes area in the far north-west of the state. The sun was just glancing across the landscape from the horizon. It does not get better than this. <\/p>\n

It was a very demanding exposure problem. I tipped the camera up to meter more of the sky and locked exposure. That left the foreground too dark, but I was able to recover the detail in Lightroom. This image will repay viewing as large as you monitor will take it.<\/p>\n

Canon SX20IS at 28mm equivalent. F4.0 @ 1\/200th @ ISO 80. Landscape program.<\/p>\n

In Lightroom, Recovery for the sky. Heavy Fill Light for the foreground. Blackpoint well right. Added Clarity and Vibrance. Sharpen landscape preset.<\/p>\n

From World Series of Birding 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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