Dec 28, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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I’m really loving the “new” friends from around the globe Captured is bringing to our door. As folks read the book more, they’re exploring the website more (which is great!) and they always seem to end up on the Int’l Tour page. Then they go searching for the wildlife tours (and there isn’t any presently). And then comes the email.
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With our Japan tour coming up soon, it’s the one being asked about the most (I believe it’s full, you’ll have to contact M&M for details). The common question is, “What’s is it about Japan since you’re not photographing wildlife?” The answer is quite simple, there is more to photography for me then just photographing critters. True, that’s my passion and what I devote the majority of my time to, but there is more to life and photography. In Tokyo for example you can literally within the same block see something 700yrs old right next to some of the most bitchin Nikon stores on the planet. Japan is where I can find this and a whole lot more.
Dec 27, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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After a marvelous day of being with family and taking lots of family photos, we settled in for great meal.
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Then I did a typical Moose, I saw the great clouds and burst out the door.
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The Prime Rib was on the table so I had to be quick, so I ran out on the deck and made a couple of quick clicks.
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As fate would have it, the color got way better, way better! As you can see though I don’t have those photos here. Nope, I enjoyed the great color sitting at the table with my family all enjoying the great view. What a marvelous last present for the day!
Photos captured by D3x, 24-120VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film
Dec 22, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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And How’d I get this photo of the God Beams in the blowin snow?
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Yep, the blowing snow is from the town blower clearing the street. I know, I know, I cheat but I tell folks that all the time. Whenever I hear the blower out working I grab the camera and run. I just never know how the wind will take the blowin snow and the light will play with it. It’s just plain ol fun.
Dec 22, 2010 | Landscape Photography
These kinds of moments come and go and the only way catch them is to be out there shooting. Or in this case, be out on our deck. The morning sun coming through the blowing snow is to die for, or freeze for depending on you.
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Seriously, we’re that fortunate to live with this kind of view. But the secret of the photos won’t be revealed until the next post.
Photos captured by D3x, 24-120VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film
Dec 20, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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I’m very fortunate to have a whole bunch of new friends and followers to the blog because of Captured. I received a cute email from one of my new followers asking, “Do you live where there’s snow?” Of course those of you who know me probably get a giggle from this as well. The answer is, affirmative!
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We’ve had a storm blowing for 72hrs now and at this writing, we’ve received about five vertical feet of new snow. What you see here is our good neighbor who happens to have a plow business. It’s late at night and he’s taking time to clear his own driveway. If you notice in the upper photo, the snow bank is so tall, the loader hides behind it as it goes down the drive.
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The moving and more importantly, the storage of snow can be a fulltime job during these kinds of storms. You might think that this kind of snow paralyzes life but it’s quite the opposite. FedEx & UPS delivered Saturday (holiday special), our Night of Light celebration still happened, and we, well we kept the drive clear so we could get out if we wanted to, but we didn’t want to. I’ve got four cool projects in the works so I spend the weekend doing some homework and making some plans next to a warm fire, movie playing drinking coffee. Mountain life isn’t for everyone but we sure do love it on days like these.
Photo captured by D3s (ISO 3200), 24-120VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film
Dec 17, 2010 | Landscape Photography
It’s winter again, there’s snow on the ground which brings with it that yearly onslaught of snow exposure questions. I’ve answered those many times on the site. The question I typically ask back for folks though is, what’s the emotion you wanna communicate in your snow photograph?
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With all the white in the scene (what we call snow), you can totally influence the emotion and feeling the viewer feels in your photograph. You want the viewer to feel that same -10 nip in the air you felt when you made the click? Then have a preponderance of blue in the scene. How do you introduce blue? You can change the AWB and take it to the blue end of the graph, that’s the quickest and easiest. Doing it in camera rather then post might keep noise from building up in the image.
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There’s nothing better then being out on a snowy day and finding the warmth of the sun and letting it heat you up. How do you do bring out that warmth? First, you have to have an element that will show that warmth, in this case a really old, wind sculpted Jeffrey Pine. Then take your AWB to the warm end of the graph and go click. Hopefully this winter when you have snow in your photograph you’ll think more about communicating emotion then exposure detail. It might just bring life to that white stuff.
