Glider Port

This month's assignment was another location : Torrey Pines Glider Port in La Jolla, not to far from my work. I was very lucky that on the day I decided to go snap some pictures, there was some tropical moisture passing through creating interesting cloud patterns and crepuscular rays and made for a beautiful sunset. Hopefully I captured some of this beauty.

I decided that the main subject of this session was going to be the sky and I was ok with allowing the paragliders to be dark or even silhouetted. My approach here was to set the camera to manual exposure mode and exposed to protect the highlights. In other words, I took several test shots while monitoring the blinking overexposed highlight warnings on the LCD. Once the blinking is just limited to the a very small porportion of the highest highlights or completely gone, I lock in the exposure and shoot a series of shots. Of course, light changes fast in these situations where the sun sets behind dense clouds, so I adjust accordingly when I sense the scene get lighter or darker.