I spent the evening at Great Falls, MD on the Virginia side trying to get some decent photos in the evening light. It’s very difficult to take pictures here. The light doesn’t seem to want to cooperate. I got lots better results a few years ago in the middle of winter. I think that at that time the sun was setting more in the direction along the river rather than directly across the river, like it is now. Last time, there was a period of about 10 minutes at sunset where the cliffs on the sides of the river bloomed from dull grey rocks into pink and orange. No such luck this time. The most I accomplished was to have the sunlight diffuse, bringing out the green of the vegetation and the orange in the rocks. Then it all went dark.
Another frustration is that the 18-200mm lens is adequate with VR but nowhere near the clarity I want. Next time I’ll bring a solid tripod, disable the VR and do things the old-fashioned way.
Also, I am hating the way Picasaweb is resizing images on the fly for the destination browser and distorting the photos. For these darker landscape photos, it makes them look pretty ugly.
Now if only my photos looked like these. Here is a view from the Maryland side, they have a better panoramic view over there!
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