One More Trip

A runner takes one more trip up Monte Sano on the Bankhead Trail.  In Monte Sano State Park, Huntsville, Alabama.

Nikon D7500 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR

35mm

F4.2@1/125th

ISO 3,600

Polarizer

White Balance on Flash

This is my standard, auto, walking-around setting on my camera.  (The programmed, U1 setting on the dial.)  Shutter priority at 1/125th because that seems fast enough to "freeze" most action on the trails (more speed is just is thumb flick away) and max aperture because it's usually dark(er) under the leaf canopy.  ISO is on auto (of course).  I keep the polarizer on to take the shine off the leaves and —because it's always shady — I put the white balance on "Flash".  (I like the tones better than "Shade" or "Cloudy".)

Straight out of the camera.  I don't process my pictures (normally).  Hence the JPEGs.

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