Oct 26, 2010 | Landscape Photography
Seriously, you didn’t even have to really look through the viewfinder, you just pointed in any direction and the images appeared. Conway Summit when it’s magical is beyond the photograph to express that magic. We were incredibly fortunate to hit it at peak and just before the storm came in to leave just bare trunks.
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Photos captured by D3x, 24-70AFS / 70-300VR on Lexar UDMA digital film
Oct 26, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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I liked the tree but where to place it in the frame, on the right or on the left? I like it on the right because it leans into the frame. It curves just right to lead the eye around and around. But then …
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There’s that every green to its left, I’m not thrilled with it. You need a little green often with fall color to make it pop but this has such a defined shape, it’s distracting to me. Yeah, yeah, I can remove it easily in post but I’d much rather deal with such things at the point of capture. There were a thousand images to be had this morning, not a bad one in the bunch!
Photos captured by D3x, 24-70AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Oct 26, 2010 | Landscape Photography
There is a location in the Sierra when the stars all align, magic happens. In this case, all the snow which turns into water this past winter along with the snow we had 08 Sept produced some amazing color in a favorite locale, Conway Summit.
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I hadn’t seen the Summit this gorgeous all at once for at least a decade. We were here probably at its peak, the color you see here is straight from the camera. It needed nothing from me to make it better. We so lucked out. The clouds hung around for quite a while providing us killer soft light. Normally the sun is burning up the scene not too long after sunrise. The other miracle was that the next day, giant winds, up to 140mph gusts came through the area cleaning off the leaves. We walked the road, I had a .06 Split Grad attached to the front of the lens and just shot. I love morning like this in the Sierra!
Photo captured by D3x, 24-70AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Oct 26, 2010 | Landscape Photography
While I have a plan on where I would like to take the gang when we head out each time on our Eastern Sierra Adv, I still make a last minute call when I see the light up and down the Sierra.
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This morning we headed north. I was thinking of going up Lee Vining Cyn but when I saw the clouds, I made a beeline to the shore of Mono Lake. The clouds and the light dictated a high vantage point so that’s where we headed. There was a slight window in the clouds so I knew there would be an exposure issue. So I went to my now favorite 7 image HDR mode to wrangle it all in. Feeling cockie, I thought I would attempt doing a 7 image HDR time lapse. See it here? That tells you how well that experiment went.
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The clouds were moving fast so the light show came and went. What you’re seeing are two images taken really just minutes apart. I’m really impressed with the new Photomatic Pro 4.01 when using 7 images. You might notice there is no “HDR” look to the photos. What you see is what I saw, gorgeous light, lots of it brought all down within the range of our limited gear. All that really counts is, you feel the wow we felt that morning.
Photos captured by D3x, 24-70AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Oct 25, 2010 | B&W Photography, Landscape Photography
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It might seem like a real stretch but I tend to take folks on our Eastern Sierra Adv to my favorite places in the Eastern Sierra to shoot. One on the top of the list is Horseshoe Lake. A true lake not messed with by man, it screams Sierra, especially when storms are blowing in like this day.
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Our participants were a bit lost probably because I ran to one spot in the bottom of the lake and planted, simply spinning around in place in a circle shooting like a mad man.
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With the high winds blasting the clouds past overhead, the scene was constantly changing. Shooting really wide, I simple kept turning and in a short time had clicked over 200 frames, each basically different. I’ve not gotten through all of them, just grabbed the ones that caught my attention.
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This is by far one of my favorites (I know, it’s a repeat). The Maple Leaf looking design in the water’s edge is what caught me attention and then finishing in Silver Efex pro made the rest a snap. The key to making this type of photography work are the trees in foreground, they give scale and sense of place. It was a gorgeous afternoon.
Photos captured by D3x, 18AF on Lexar UDMA digital film
Oct 25, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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As the light slowly leaked over the ridge, it painted more and more cool canvas for us to photograph. When I lined up this shot I was thinking I would just remove the fishermen in post but once I looked at the image on the monitor, I liked them. It’s just simple slice of Eastern Sierra life in fall, probably why I like it.
Photo captured by D3x, 600VR on Lexar UDMA digital film
