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Camera and Lens: Sony a6500, 16-70mm f/4 Carl Zeiss
Settings: 26mm, ISO 800, f/8, 1/2000th
I had tried to take some photos of this rock formation earlier that morning on my way to the peak, but the light wasn't right. The Sun was still rising behind the mountains you can see in the background.
On the way back, though, I got the right conditions.
Camera and Lens: Sony a6500 + 16-70mm f/4 Carl Zeiss
Settings: ISO 100, 70mm, f/8, 1/2000sec
This is one of the few images I managed to create during the hike to Pena Trevinca, in the Galicia / Castille border.
I made it at the beginning of the hike, when my mind and legs were still fresh and the light workable. I had none of those two things for almost the rest of the day in the mountains.
This was a complicated shot.
First, it was hard to compose with my zoom lens. The widest it can go is 24mm, definitely pretty tight from this composition.
It's also a scene with a vertical subject, and I had to decide what else to include in this square frame so I could fit the gate and the bells / cross on the top, leaving some necessary empty space for this image to breathe.
Second, the sky was very bright behind the structure. I shot two long exposures, exposing for different parts of the image, and then blended them together in Lightroom. That gave me the extra dynamic range I needed.
Lastly, it was a long edit. I had to clone out a sign (that really distracted from the rest of the image), and dodge / burn a lot of it.
At the end though, I'm happy with the result.
