 |
Fruit Road
Photograph by Tom Atwood |
It begins humbly enough as a winding exit off Old Route 66 north of Edwardsville, Illinois, but then Fruit Road cuts straight east across Madison County, miles of unbending blacktop plunging directly into the sunrise. The problem (not for Fruit Road but for me) is how to photograph it so you see both the road and the sunrise? The short answer is, not without some help. This photo was adjusted, using a processing feature called "fill light" in Lightroom 2. It fills in the details of the road, grass and houses that would normally be black, because the light of the dawn is so bright. The result above is an unnatural photograph, one that is manipulated, and yet one that more closely resembles what I actually saw yesterday morning standing in the middle of Fruit Road. Shutter: 1/3 sec; Aperture: f/13; ISO: 100; Focal length: 135 mm.
No comments:
Post a Comment