Time changes tomorrow! Don’t forget to move your clocks back tonight. I am personally very happy to get that hour of morning light back. It’s been hard to get out and hike in the mornings and still get in to the office at a reasonable time. I have to get out on the trail before sunrise, so I’ve seen a lot of sunrises lately.
This has made for some interesting autumn photographs in the early morning light, though. And I’ve been enjoying some of the heavily textured nature looks I’ve been seeing around Instagram, so I created this Stackables formula called “Late Sunrise” that I’m sharing with you today.
To download the “Late Sunrise” formula for your own use, do the following:
1. Make sure the Stackables app is installed on your iOS device.
2. On your iOS device, download the formula file from this link. (This is a Dropbox link, and you may be prompted to save the file to your Dropbox account, if you have one. Go ahead and save it to your Dropbox and then download from there.)
3. When you go to download or open the file on your device, use “Open in…” and choose the “Open in Stackables” option.
4. Stackables will open and ask if you want to import the formula, click “Import.”
5. To use the formula, load a photo and then go to Favorite Formulas (the ones with a heart!). You will see the imported formula there.
Here is the original photo, before applying the formula. Big difference, huh? I just love what you can do with post-processing!
Here are a couple of different images, using the same formula…
For this next one, I modified a few of the layers, removing, lightening and/or rotating them. Don’t forget that you can continue to make adjustments after you apply the formula! It’s one of the great features of the Stackables app.
Today sunrise was at 7:47am where I live. It was the latest sunrise until late December/early January, so I get a little reprieve on the morning light. I don’t know how those of you further north do it in the winters! People around here complain about the rain, but I think it’s the short days that get me the most.
I’m very happy to “fall back” to tonight!
When I lived in Ohio, which is near the western edge of the Eastern time zone, sunrise came near 8 a.m. in the dead of winter. On the other hand, in summer the sun didn’t set til almost 9 p.m. Here in Maine, both sunrise and sunset come much earlier. But latitude does make a difference, too. When I came back here in 2013, after being in Southern California for a year and a half, I noticed for the first time that our daylight this far north really is over an hour shorter. Before that I’d always assumed it was pretty much the same anywhere in the USA. It’s funny the things we take for granted that are not necessarily so!
Your Stackables formula did an amazing transformation on that photograph. I’d never have guessed that the original was so blue and “cold.” I love the movement and texture of the clouds and the sense of lingering fall warmth.
It’s interesting how we don’t really understand something, like the length of days relative to latitude, until we have that direct contrast! We noticed it when we moved to Oregon years ago, from Colorado. But I hadn’t considered the issue of where you live in the time zone, which would play into it as well. Less than two months to winter solstice! My countdown has begun. 🙂