Photos

The light was perfect on this day, and the morning sun with it's warmth just set off the intensity of the aspen. I had photographed on a larger scale many areas, and decided to take a different approach on this one by getting up close. I could take a year of these beautiful mornings.

I didn't have a tripod handy, so I cranked up the ISO on the camera, and chose a shutter speed of 1/1250th to stop any camera movement, as I was shooting close with a 105mm macro lens. I only needed f5.6 or better for the depth of field, and chose not to use any filter as to agrivate a potential flare problem.

I had a fun workshop with some Brigham Young University students that were working in the area. We learned how to calibrate our cameras with a gray card, and how to use the internal meter. As I used the spot meter to find the value of the leaves, and knowing that I only have zones of detail above middle gray, we calculated where to place the exposure. I convinced them they need to be keeping a notebook of their visualizations and using it with each exposure. They got a little hung up on some of the detail showing in the shadow, which is easily handled with digital or film.