Oct 28, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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Since the cloud wouldn’t play with me the way I wanted, I went and made do with what I had. Again, using lights and darks, I went vertical. I also went HDR for B&W, finished in color before going to B&W
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One of the gang asked why I did HDR for this shot. My reasoning was simple, I wanted detail in the rock. With HDR, it was a solid black mass. It has so much character that I wanted that in the photo. To get that exposure info, I went HDR.
Photo captured by D3x, 24PC-E on Lexar UDMA digital film
Oct 28, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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How can exposure, light and darks change the photographic message or story? Lights and darks along with color are kind of corner posts of my landscape photography. See that white cloud on the left…..
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For some reason, while all the rest of the clouds were cranking on by, it sat still and I didn’t like where it was. So I moved up, down, left, right trying to get it in the place I would have preferred. But I never could get it where I wanted it behind the rocks on the left.
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The reason I wanted it in a different place because of how I felt it would lead the eye around in the frame as well as bring a visual depth to the whole scene. Because in the end, rather then move, the winds just blew it apart and I ended up with nothing. I know I missed a couple of other cool shots by stacking out this one scene, but I do that at times, kinda of putting all my eggs in one landscape basket. And it was all based on simple lights and darks. Oh yeah, thesee are all 7 image HDR photos.
Photo captured by D3x, 24PC-E on Lexar UDMA digital film
Oct 28, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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I feel pretty darn comfortable with Photomatic Pro 4.01 and 7 image HDR now. Both of these images which match what I saw and felt pretty damn close through the magic of really good math!
[swf]http://www.moosepeterson.com/swf_imgs/_BMP8791.swf, 585, 473, [/swf]
[swf]http://www.moosepeterson.com/swf_imgs/_BMP86431.swf, 585, 473, [/swf]
Yeah, it would have been really easy to whack out the colors with HDR, I could have made the limited glow really dominate the photograph. I could have taken the foreground and made it look like it was lit with 50000 watts of flash but that’s just now how I see our landscape, especially this morning. And all of that doesn’t really mean dittly squat! No matter how you use any particular technique, HDR or anything else, make it match how YOU see and feel and it will have been done to perfections!
Photos captured by D3x, 24-70AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Oct 28, 2010 | B&W Photography, Landscape Photography
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We woke up to the start of a major storm, Mammoth had major winds and rain, not the best of conditions for photography. Definitely not the best conditions to have any fun. So we headed towards the east, away from the storm. I took the gang to a spot I’ve never taken folks before, a special locale when the clouds are talking to us, the photography is amazing! What you see in the distance are the White Mtns and Nevada. mtc
Photo captured by D3x, 70-200VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film
Oct 27, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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With the light slipping down, we headed down the road to another grove of fall color. But this time the grove wasn’t so close. It was long lens time. That doesn’t seem like any big deal.
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Not until you look through the viewfinder and see your shutter speed at ISO 100 was 1/4! And, the wind was blowing! Not a problem, just shoot keeping your finger on the hammer.
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Shooting a bunch of frames just lets the law of averages catch up so you at least get one sharp frame. When it comes to framing up the elements, I looked for color, texture and shape. It was a lot of fun and a killer wrap to a killer day on the Eastside.
Photos captured by D3x, 200-400VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film
Oct 27, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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So there I was cruising the grove with my usual bag of tricks and they just weren’t cutting it. I walked the road looking into the grove and then it hit me. I was doing it all wrong!
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I don’t know what it was but I realized that “more” DOF was wrong for what I was experiencing. I was shooting with the 18AF so I opened it up to f2.8 and looked at the LCD. I thought I was onto something.
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It’s then I ran back to the truck and pulled out the 24f1.4 and started shooting at f1.4. The challenge was keeping the film plane parallel with those elements in the photograph I want sharp and having those elements I don’t want sharp, out of that plane.
[swf]http://www.moosepeterson.com/swf_imgs/_BMP8221.swf, 585, 473, [/swf]
I’m pleased that even with these thumbnails you get a sense of the feeling the minimum f1.4 DOF brings to the forest. It’s a technique I have tucked back in the back of my mind to use again. It was a great time cruising a favorite grove on the Eastside!
Photos captured by D3x, 24f1.4AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
