Another beautiful sunrise we had was a couple of days ago was on the striking peaks of Torres del Paine in Chile. We've had incredible luck with light on this tour; every morning when we got up early and drove to a great vantage point, we had phenomenal light and dramatic color. Often, the mountains here are so obscured by clouds you can't even see a trace of them. On this morning, there were thin clouds that allowed us to see the peaks but with a touch of mystical light. The eastern sky was clear, so the reddish glow reflected off the clouds as well as the peaks to give us memorable images. My settings here were 1/500, f/4.0, and 800 ISO, and I used a 24-105mm lens. One of the challenges we've had on this tour has been high winds, and even though we used tripods much of the time, the wind buffeted our supports forcing the use of fast shutter speeds a majority of the time. The wind gave us amazing clouds, but it was a problem best dealt with by using shutter settings of at least 1/500.
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