NAVIGATION
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Kings Canyon
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While sitting for a midmorning snack, I noticed the backlit ground cover as I did the day before. I saw how it wound through the crack in a granite rock and framed it, shooting using a polarizing filter and an incident meter to set aperture and shutter speed. I wish I had a reflector to illuminate the shadowed area which has lost all detail, though I do like the contrast and the shadow contains nothing that the sunlit rock doesn't already have. I think I shot at f/22, 4x5 camera, 150mm lens. Then I looked at the ground glass again and decided to move back a bit to capture some of the yellow background color beyond the rock and red ground cover. Click here to see what I saw. I might have shot at f/64 just to see the image with a sharp background, too. The excitement of walking at high altitude must have overcome my ability to vary apertures.
©1998 Jeffrey Wong
