Arches and other Utah Nat Parks: a photo tip
(Dear Moderator -- I posted this item in the National Parks forum because it is about the particular problems I encountered when taking photos in the southwestern national parks. If it is in the wron...
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profdant139 wrote:
So, for example, here is the best I could do at Arches -- not bad, but very high contrast:
This scene is known to photographers as a back-lit shot... there is a bright light source behind the subject (the clouds and blue sky).
You'd need a pro-grade flash to "fill" a scene like this, maybe even two, and that's a lot of equipment to schlep around.
4huskers offers the best tip, shoot during the golden hours, when the sun is in the first or last 1/3 of the sky, say roughly the first 2-3 hours from sunrise and the last 2-3 hours going into and past sunset. Keep the sun (or bright sky) at your back.
HDR mode on your camera might help which is comprised of 3-5 bracketed exposures... problem is your subject can't move while the camera takes these exposures or you get a weird ghost effect.
