stairway on "track and tower" trail in Algonquin by northy

stairway on "track and tower" trail in Algonquin

went hiking in Algonquin today :)

what are the ideal settings for shooting in the bush? the light is completely unpredictable (and mostly crappy) and everything is brown and green... in the end i mostly just used aperture priority with ISO around 400 or 800 and some negative exposure adjustment... but i keep thinking there has to be a better way...

(sorry i haven't been commenting much... quite a bit of down time, but the internet is rather frustratingly unpredictable in cottage-country)
Interesting how the upward movement is a bit ghost-like, and the ascent into light could have all kinds of metaphoric meaning to it!
July 21st, 2015  
Nice! Why f4? Just curious. Why not 1000 ISO and more dof? I am pretty sure you won't see much grain for what you are doing. Love what you do!
July 21st, 2015  
Stunning. Fav
July 21st, 2015  
wonderful capture... fav
July 21st, 2015  
This kind of tricks the eye. At least my old eyes. At first I thought the person was coming down the stairs carrying a burden and his head held low. But I kept looking at the stairs and something felt amiss. Still have a hard time seeing him going up the stairs. Time for me to test my eyes I think.
July 21st, 2015  
Tom
Wonderful tonal range and perspective
July 22nd, 2015  
Awesome shot
July 22nd, 2015  
Wonderful light, capture!
July 22nd, 2015  
Super tones and lighting here.
July 22nd, 2015  
@mwbc uhm... prolly cos i had seconds to get this and went for the ev adjustment first? i really was struggling with settings... nothing seemed right... and when i got a setting sort of figured out for one scene, it was completely wrong for the next one!

@janiskay i can get my eyes to see it that way too... but yeah... he was walking up :)
July 22nd, 2015  
This tells a story.
July 22nd, 2015  
Fav'ed this earlier. Love the light in this.
July 22nd, 2015  
Fav for the comp, square format and mood!
July 22nd, 2015  
Lovely B&W, very atmospheric :)
July 22nd, 2015  
Great atmospheric image of heading into the light ...
July 22nd, 2015  
Excellent, very atmospheric - great light
July 22nd, 2015  
Sue
Your setting sound like those I often use in these sort of situations. I like this. It has your signature blast of bright light. I always tend to avoid this but maybe will try to be braver.
July 22nd, 2015  
Love seeing leading line photos because that is my push challenge and it is insprining me for when I go out today. Leading line is just on of my favs.
July 22nd, 2015  
@northy wow, very cool. Didnt realize it was candid. Love it more
July 22nd, 2015  
Great leading line...the person's posture might be concentration or a weight on his shoulders...
July 22nd, 2015  
brown and green. Yes, that is the woods -- everything in sight turns out to be a shade of yellow. I like how the man-made object stands out so well.
July 22nd, 2015  
@taffy he's actually walking up the stairs... Although I can see that it sort of can look like he is coming down...
@mwbc to! It was my husband... I let him get a bit ahead of me when we got to the stairs :)
July 22nd, 2015  
Great shot! The guy in front of you looks very weird indeed. Only by zooming, i understood.
July 22nd, 2015  
Wonderful shot
July 22nd, 2015  
Great capture for a quick shot. At first it looked to me as if the person was walking down the steps, and also has no head! After reading comments and looking closer, I now can see the elbows are definitely going up the steps, but still; no head!
July 22nd, 2015  
Great shot x
July 22nd, 2015  
The end result is very effective - lovely tones
July 22nd, 2015  
Brilliant perspective!!
July 22nd, 2015  
I like this, looks like an image from a dream
July 23rd, 2015  
I like the sense of heading towards the light, great perspective.
July 24th, 2015  
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