Clouds

Image: 5D Mk II, 70-200f/4 IS L, f/11 at 1.5 sec

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Clouds are a difficult thing to expose, normally the image includes other objects at the far end of the dynamic range, like a hill, lake or mountain, playing havoc with most cameras exposure systems.

Live view exposure can really help tame the overall range of light to help bring out the details in the cloud, with out over or under exposing other parts of the scene.

This scene played out in just a few seconds as the last light of the day highlighted this low hanging cloud above the sprouting wheat fields of the Palouse.

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Eastern Washington

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From Steptoe Butte

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Eastern Washington wheat field

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The Palouse

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The Eastern side of Washington state is a completely different environment from the West, mostly flat and arid, hot and dry. Where its been irrigated it changes over the course of the summer, from Wheat fields to Turnips, Potatoes and Asparagus, slowly the landscape changes.

The area known as the Palouse in the southeast corner of the state, where Washington meets Oregon and Idaho is widely regarded as a great place for photographers to shoot, not a lot of tourism so your free to pull over anywhere and pull out a tripod and plant it next to a farmers field. Now is a great time to capture the contrasting fields of freshly planted produce and just turned and seeded fields of a different crop.

Also a refreshing change from the rain of Seattle, which has been abnormally bad this year.

Ross

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