{"id":2114,"date":"2011-06-16T06:36:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T10:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/2011\/06\/16\/6162011-the-bowl-acadia-national-park\/"},"modified":"2011-06-16T06:36:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T10:36:25","slug":"6162011-the-bowl-acadia-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=2114","title":{"rendered":"6\/16\/2011: The Bowl, Acadia National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We got a late start on our first hike in Acadia National Park this last visit, and by the time I got to The Bowl, a little pond on the trail from Gorham Mountain to Champlain, the light was rapidly going. I am not as fast on the trail, up over Gorham, down into the divide between, and up behind the Beehive to The Bowl, as I once was. Clouds had rolled in and rain was predicted by night-fall. Still, The Bowl never fails to satisfy. The subtle light, while it posed real exposure problems\u2026a matter of somehow maintaining detail in both sky and landscape\u2026gave a wonderful texture to the water. <\/p>\n

For the image above I used all the help the camera provides: Active D-Lighting to extend the dynamic range when taking the image, and then in-camera post-processing using D-Lighting after the fact to bring up greens of the foliage even more. I finished it in Lightroom with some Fill Light and Blackpoint adjustment.<\/p>\n

Nikon Coolpix P500 at 23mm equivalent field of view, f4.5 @ 1\/1000th @ ISO 160. <\/p>\n

And I had to try a panorama. This is four 23mm frames stitched in PhotoMerge in PhotoShop Elements 9, and processed for Clarity, Sharpness, and lighting in Lightroom. It is about 270\u00b0 so the right most shot was behind my right shoulder when I took the left most shot. It looks better at larger sizes. Click the image to open it to the width of your monitor. <\/p>\n

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