This first photo was taken with my Sony A7 III and edited in Lightroom. If I had to do it over again I would have cranked up the iso and then dealt with the noise in Lightroom because trying to bring the shadows up in Lightroom on this did not look good so I kept them dark enough that the trees are silhouettes.

The sun was rising over a river blanketed with early morning fog. It was quite serene.

This next photo I took at the same time and place with my phone Pixel 6 and edited on my phone’s photo app I believe. It seems like the phone always takes photos in an HDR type way where the light and dark areas of the photo are more balanced.

I just realized I could have done that with my Sony by taking 3 photos – exposing one for the sky, one for the trees and one in-between and then merging them in Lightroom. I think I was still half asleep so I didn’t think of it. Maybe next time.

11 responses to “Sunrise through the Trees”

    1. Sheila Avatar

      Thanks Lynette. It’s not often I am up early enough to catch the sun rise

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  1. buddy71 Avatar

    I have set my X-S10 for auto iso. It seems to work better that way. Do you have your pixel set for HDR photos?

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    1. Sheila Avatar

      It has a toggle for ultra HDR that is more HDR than the HDR+processing that seems to be the standard setting. It has the ultra one turned on

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      1. buddy71 Avatar

        I have my ultra hdr turned off also

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    2. Sheila Avatar

      I usually use auto iso too but it was reading at 10,000 with this shot so I adjusted it manually instead, hoping to recover more than I ended up being able to in post processing

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  2. Hammad Rais Avatar

    These trees are indeed adding a really nice touch here to the sunrise. Very lovely 🙂

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    1. Sheila Avatar

      Thanks, Hammad for having a look. Hope you’re well

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      1. Hammad Rais Avatar

        I’m doing well 🙂

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