Spring Road Trip 2019 – Bisti – Day 6 – Sunrise

My son and I returned to the “Scalloped Rocks” area of Bisti for sunrise photography on day 6 in Bisti March, 2019.  This morning’s shoot was frustrating for me.  I had a malfunction with my remote/intervalometer that resulted in the camera shooting continuously, just as I was composing what I thought would be my best shot of the morning.

Another of my shots, that I thought would be really good, turned out to have much too shallow a depth of field.  It looked good in my quick review in the camera LED screen, but apparently, I did not inspect it closely enough and maybe my fingers were so cold at that time that I was not using my best judgement.

Sunrise Day 6 March2019
A pre-sunrise shot in the Scalloped Rocks area of South Bisti. Nikon D850, Nikon 24-70mm at 24mm, f/11, 10s, ISO 64, edited in Adobe Lightroom and DxO Nik color Efex Pro 4.

A shot across the area just before sunrise is shown above.

Sunrise Day 6 March2019
Sunrise in the Scalloped Rocks area of South Bisti. Nikon D850, Nikon 24-70mm at 28mm, f/11, 2.5s, ISO 64, edited in Adobe Lightroom and DxO Nik color Efex Pro 4.

And another pre-sunrise shot from a different point of view is above.

Sunrise Day 6 March2019
An accidental abstract. Nikon D850, Nikon 24-70mm at 27mm, f/11, 0.5s, ISO 64, edited in Adobe Lightroom and DxO Nik color Efex Pro 4.

While my camera was shooting continuously, due to the remote release malfunction, there were numerous images captured, which were all trash; but I decided to make use of the one above, since it has interesting abstract photographic features, which I do not think I could have purposely created.

Sunrise Day 6 March2019
Sunrise light, clouds and silhouetted rock forms. Nikon D850, Nikon 24-70mm at 70mm, f/11, 1/6s, ISO 64, edited in Adobe Lightroom and DxO Nik color Efex Pro 4.

I finally captured the image above, after managing to remove the remote release with my fumbling, numb fingers on this cold morning.  Valuable time was lost as I dealt with the equipment problem and I think I missed the best pre-sunrise light composition here; but at least I got this silhouette of a window with the sunrise sky in the background, before the sun was completely up.

Some days are like this,

Ken