Shooting Mid Day

I just wanted to share a couple images that I shot a couple of days ago. Normally I wouldn't bother shooting landscapes during the day. Reason being that the lighting is flat and does not add much dimension or color to the scene. Instead, I prefer to shoot early morning or even better, about an hour before sunset or, "the Golden Hour" At this time, lighting is more dramatic and brings about a nice saturation of colors.

I had lunch at Estrella Mountain Ranch and as I usually do, took my camera along. This particular day, the skies were overcast with big, puffy white and gray clouds. The way that the sun rays beamed through the clouds and cast shadows on the mountains really caught my eye. It gave them a 3-dimension appearance to what would normally be a boring, flat scene at this time of the day.

Here are a couple from the day. These were shot at 105mm. The first one was F11 and the second was F10. I actually used 3 frames to process each of these images, HDR style.

(Frames by Jason Hermann)