Sunrise in Appalachia (C&C welcome)

Scott_Quier

For our vacation, the DW and I went to the John C. Campbell Folk School (home page link) for a week away from newspapers, telephones, internet, and most other things modern. There were NO locks on the doors! Anyway, I took a short photography course and the following is one of the shots I took:

We arrived Sunday evening. Monday morning I was able to capture this photo. The haze you see is the closest thing to percipitation we saw the entire week we were there. In fact, they were/are in the middle of one of worst drought they have experienced in quite some time.

Hikin' Mike

I really like the haze/mist, but the sun is a bit distracting. Maybe cropping out the left side a bit?

Scott_Quier

Hikin' Mike wrote:

I really like the haze/mist, but the sun is a bit distracting. Maybe cropping out the left side a bit?

Thank you for taking the time to post your very kind comment. I appreciate the thought. You may be right about the need for a crop. I'll take a look at it and I might just have to make the change. I've been wondering about it ever since I "finished" it.

schmoo

Scott,

I'm frustrated with the weather out here because of the moisture and haze, but you captured the sunrise perfectly. I do wish there was slightly more definition in the clouds, but I am pretty sure that what I see here is what was actually out there.

Scott_Quier

schmooo wrote:

Scott,

I'm frustrated with the weather out here because of the moisture and haze, but you captured the sunrise perfectly. I do wish there was slightly more definition in the clouds, but I am pretty sure that what I see here is what was actually out there.

Working with the water in the air is a matter of working with it rather than against it. This photo was taken near sunset on a very very humid evening. The colors are as they came out of the camera - no color PP at all.



The lack of definition in the clouds was due, in part, to the smoke blown in from swamp fires further south (from FL and GA). Even a CP filter would have been of limited use, given the angle between the clounds, me, and the sun - way to close to zero to make the CP of much use.