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Just minutes later, the view changed to this. Gorgeous! Some might question the inclusion of the road and if it were some boring stretch, I wouldn’t have thought about including it. But the combination of the road, its sinking off and the sign for us captures why we live in the Sierra.
Photo captured by D3s, 70-200VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film
The cool iPhone photo contest the folks at Adorama have put this together has had its deadline extended to 28 Feb, 2010. It’s an iPhone photo contest! It’s pretty darn simple, take an iPhone photo, email it from you iPhone if you want and you’re in! You can even win prizes by simply voting for an iPhone app! Dang, it just keeps getting better and better and you read about it. How am I involved? I’m just one of a great group of judges that get to pick the winner.
As a reminder of how is it is, here’s this photo of the Golden Gate Bridge. It was taken after dark and finished with the Photoshop iPhone app, converting it to B&W. The bottom image taken and created with the AutoStitch, dang easy! There’s are so many options. I look for to seeing YOUR entry!
I am incredibly fortunate living here in the Sierra where the light is always playing with the landscape and taking me away from the computer. I sit in the evening just gazing out as the day shifts into night, the transition often living all who stop without breath at it’s simple beauty. That’s why I always have the camera beside me, the only question each night is the lens.
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At first I thought the clouds were going to line up to make for a good, solid B&W image. Nice contrast that would make the “texture” of the clouds stand out so I make the click. But that thought didn’t last long.
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You can see that clouds change pretty darn quick, changing my shooting. They lost their character of contrast which was replaced with the hint of color.
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Ten minutes later all my preconceived idea for photographing the show changed. The color was changing, the clouds were flattening out, there was a wind coming over the crest messing with my photographs.
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I turned my back on the scene for a heartbeat to turn around and find it all changed. I ran for a different lens. I had been shooting with the 28f1.4AF and switched to the 70-200VR2 to get in on the formation of a weak linticular cloud. I hoped for a Sierra wave but no such luck but it was another gorgeous night from the deck. No complaints!
Photos captured by D3s, 28f1.4 / 70-200VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film
We love visiting NYC! It’s got an energy and character I don’t think you can find any other place. Using points, we uped our room as in, we went up to the 25th floor so we could have the view you see in the last blog and this. While they’re not pine trees, the vertical lines out the window just fascinate me.
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I don’t know if it’s the contrast of the shapes against the lines or the novelty of the water towers themselves, perhaps they make me think of the old west, whatever it is they just grab my eye!
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This is the roof top view from our room looking left and right. I spent most of the night shooting them and then once the light came up (what light there is) I just kept on going. It’s a search for patterns, textures and character. The entire time I was thinking B&W. Looking for whites and blacks is the key because they are what give a visual depth to the varing heights of roofs and towers. I just love it!
Photos captured by D3x, 50f1.4 AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
I had a moment (just a moment) so I sat down and created this video as promised on how I created these two B&W images. I’m going to be straight with ya, this pretty much breaks some rules. As you can tell, I really don’t care about most rules, just about the final image and since to me the 24×30 prints look pretty sweet, I’m quite happy with the end results. These are the two images.
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And here’s the video. You can grab it from iTunes as a podcast as well, incase you want to take it along with you. Have fun, I think it’s a pretty cool way of obtaining a solid white for B&W.
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