Nov 4, 2011 | Landscape Photography
Cisco is this really cool place that I’ve blogged about many times. In fact, one of the residents said, “Yeah, photographers seem to come here all the time now. Someone blogged about it and now they all come.” Opps! If you blink while driving by Cisco, you will miss it. There simply isn’t much to it. There are so many ways to approach shooting at Cisco, this time I decided to go with the one lens approach. I wanted to find subjects that fit my perception of Cisco, a lonely place once a thriving community full of dreams. The lens I went with was the 50f1.4AFS, a wickedly sharp lens. I shot the entire time at f1.4, that narrow DOF bringing in the loneliness of Cisco. I found only 13 subjects that fit my quest and of those, these three I really like. I was with the gang when I saw the bottom image, definitely my favorite. I bent over to get the perspective you see here. I must have looked really funny because everyone stopped and asked, “What does he see?” Now they know.
Photos captured by D3s, 50f1.4AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Nov 3, 2011 | Landscape Photography
That sky is real, it’s not a B&W version attached to a color foreground! That’s just amazingly powerful and I love it! These four blog postings came in about 20min of great photography because as you might expect, it started to rain. Wow, really sweet!
Nov 3, 2011 | Landscape Photography
I was thinking B&W the whole time I was shooting. I even explained to the gang how the Structure Slider in Silver Efex Pro would really pull out amazing detail from the clouds. But then I processed the images and I saw that color didn’t suck either. The red landscape of UT is gorgeous, and it worked!
Photos captured by D3x, 24-70AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Nov 3, 2011 | Landscape Photography
One set of clouds out, another coming in. That’s how weather goes and most times you’re left holding the bag. Not today!
Nov 3, 2011 | Landscape Photography
We were going to walk up to Delicate Arch but our gorgeous skies turned very angry. The worst weather can be some of the best photography took over our shoot instead. We really didn’t travel far from the Red Cliff where we found a landscape to put with the anger. First clicks out of the door showed promise, a little time is required to refine!
Photos captured by D3s, 24-70AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Nov 2, 2011 | Landscape Photography
This is Double Arch looking back out into the desert and I love this shot! Talk about an amazing view on the world. Shot with the 16Fish, there are a few things that went into making this image. The first is the range of light was huge so I started with a 9 handheld image HDR. I then processed that image in Photomatic Pro and Photoshop. To get the sunburst I did two things, I shot with the lens closed down to f/22 and then moved so the sun was just baring peaking around the rim of the Arch. That makes the biggest and best starburst. Finally, I moved the Fish so the slope on the horizon which was sloping up naturally turn out to look pretty level. That “removes” the visual clue that I was using a Fish. But a Fish was a must to take in the whole Arch. It was simply a grand morning in one gorgeous location!
