Drawing With Light! - a photo on Flickriver

            Looking at this photo you would say that there are here 3 different kinds of rock, right? Well, …, wrong! All of it is granite whose natural colour is the dark grey of the ones in the forefront. 
What makes them look completely different is the sunrise light! On the left of the image you have a glimpse of a fiery orange rock formation (granite) that is being illuminated by the early day oblique sun rays (see a more extensive example of that wonderful but brief efect on “Mountain On Fire”, that I’ve posted here). In the middle of the image you have granite again, but under the influence of reflected light it seems brownish and, in the forefront, as said, being in the shade, it shows its “natural” dark grey colour.
Light is everything in photography. It was for very good reasons that the Greeks, that were the ones creating its name (photography, I mean) have chosen to designate it from φῶς (phōs), meaning "light", and γραφή (graphê), meaning drawing/writing that jointly means “drawing with light”.
That’s what we are doing, my friends, we are drawing with light!
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Covão do Boi, Serra da Estrela, Portugal
Notes: No HDR, no exposure blend whatsoever involved here. This image results from editing a single RAW file (I don’t use HDR anyway, as I don’t like it). And, yes, the fiery orange rock was effectively showing that tone (although for just some brief moments; as the sun rose in the sky, that beautiful effect was quickly lost).

© All rights reserved Rui Baptista. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
   

Taken in: Portugal / Guarda / Loriga (show map)

Taken on: February 17, 2018

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Camera: Nikon D810, f/4.0, 1/80 sec, 16mm, ISO 64 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D810
Lens:	Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	0.013 sec (1/80)
Focal Length:	16mm
ISO:	64
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Light Source:	Fine Weather
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Capture One Pro 12.1.3 Windows
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