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Couple of years ago, during our annual summer roadtrip, we visited the beautiful state of Oregon. I had seen many great photographs of Mt Hood from the north and wanted to take a shot of the mountain from the north in good light. The problem with traditional Trillium Lake and Lost Lake locations is that they do not get the best light during a summer sunrise. In my search for a summer vantage point we found out that the northern plains near Mt hood is amaze of small farms and county roads and can get very overwhelming.
I had heard about this farm that has a red barn and provides a nice composition of the mountain, unfortunately we visited during summer when the plants in the farm were at their full size, so we couldn’t see the farm but the light just before sunrise on that day was just fantastic. So, I found a small clearing from which th mountain was clearly visible and took a straight forward landscape shot. I used a 1 stop ND grad in this image and cropped the image into a square crop to exclude some distracting elements. I metered the brightest element in this image, which is the snow on top of the mountain. I dialed up the ISO to 400 for and aperture to 11 for enough depth of field.