The Morning run. We decided to head up the Alsea River to see what we could see. Not much was the answer. The road tended to be anywhere from twenty to seventy feet above the river bed and was filled with the undergrowth, trees and moss that one would expect in the Coastal Range of Oregon. In short, we couldn’t see very much at all. While we are out here in the wide open American West, the landscape in the Coastal Range is very intimate because you just can’t see very far with the trees in the way. Later today, our plan is to revisit the creek we drove by yesterday from the opposite direction. Things do look different when you come from another direction. What we discovered on the trip back was that the better lighting for our side of the valley was on the morning run.
The lighting in the forests is very difficult to handle from a technical standpoint. A lot of backlighting and very high contrast sunlight fool the very smart exposure sensors of a digital camera. The color palette is a monochromatic green which also is giving me fits in processing the image files.
If one learns from their mistakes,we've had some really great learning over the last two days.
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