{"id":48,"date":"2011-02-14T02:22:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T02:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2011-02-21T17:46:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T17:46:32","slug":"february-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"2nd Week of February – weekly 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Although it is winter the greening of the hills and the blooming of the first wild flowers makes it feel like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153spring.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow our seasonal rains are supposed to return.\u00c2\u00a0 So this past week I took advantage of the sunshine.\u00c2\u00a0 Already the wild mustard is growing in many of the vineyards in Sonoma and Napa Wine Country.\u00c2\u00a0 Finding a section of vineyard that allows the vines to take you into the distant hills provides a beautiful image.\u00c2\u00a0 Adding an edge of road with water helped enhance this image.<\/p>\n

So I mounted my camera on my tripod and used a 28 mm lens with a polarizing filter to eliminate the glare on the grass and pump up the blue in the sky.\u00c2\u00a0 This works best if the sun is at a 45-90 degrees angle from your lens (so you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want the sun behind you).\u00c2\u00a0 So getting to this vineyard before 8:30 AM was helpful.\u00c2\u00a0 My aperture was f\/22 to give me as much depth of field as possible (that is a focus from foreground to background).<\/p>\n

This week ended up being about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153water.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 Although I did not get beautiful clouds in the sky at sunrise, I was able to take advantage of a small cloud that bounced the dawn light onto the bay water that was gently moving with the ebb tide.\u00c2\u00a0 The effect was as if there was neon like lines and circles in the water.\u00c2\u00a0 This is captured as I saw it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Often when there are insignificant clouds at the horizon at sunrise you can look west to see what the first light will illumine with its golden rays.\u00c2\u00a0 This intense quality of light will last 15-30 minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 Or look into the water itself to see what light is picked up from the clouds as I did with this shot.\u00c2\u00a0 I needed a fast enough shutter speed to slightly freeze the movement of the water. Otherwise the colors would have just been a blur with no distinct lines.<\/p>\n

I needed to use a 400 mm lens to reach the area in the water where the light was best reflecting.\u00c2\u00a0 In order to get a fast enough shutter speed at ISO 400 I had to give up some depth of field so some of the lines are soft from.\u00c2\u00a0 But I still like the abstract that I was able to extract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although it is winter the greening of the hills and the blooming of the first wild flowers makes it feel like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153spring.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow our seasonal rains are supposed to return.\u00c2\u00a0 So this past week I took advantage of the sunshine.\u00c2\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hkEw-M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}