Oct 22, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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A short time later, we’re down the road a little further when all the energy building in the skies let loose and man, it was simply, undoubtedly, amazing weather preforming magic for our cameras!
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Here’s the massive challenge. I’m shooting towards the sun, it’s on the right side of the photo. The clouds are dark as sin and then there is all that light leaking through. One capture wasn’t going to bring out that detail let alone the tans in the foreground. Both of these images are 5 image HDRs. Why don’t they look like HDR? I’m using it only to grab the highlight and shadow detail and that’s all. When mother nature provides you this kind of drama, I’ll be damned if I’m going to mess with it!
Photos captured by D3x, 24-70AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Oct 22, 2010 | Landscape Photography
Heading down the hill I thought I wanted to go south. Once in the flats and looking around, I said let’s go north. Then a second later I said, “Nope, let’s go south.” Then I looked north again and said, “Keep heading south!” Having been in an area for 50yrs and exploring it during every time of day and season and with a little sixth sense on weather helps in instances like this when the heavens open up.
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Western movie buffs will recognize this place from such classics as True Grit and Nevada Smith. The Hot Springs are a favorite locale WHEN the heaven are full of drama which today, they sure were. This is a 7 image HDR to pull off the range of light, especially the god beams.
Photo captured by D3x, 24-70AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Oct 22, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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The boys had been on their best behavior so I took them to a favorite fall locale. Another life ago, a photo from this same locale, possible same boat served as an ad campaign for Agfa Film, so I’ve always been partial to it.
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It’s really just a simple class in light, form and texture that is so bloody fun to do! We spent a good hour here playing with the hulls as they reflected the killer cloud overhead bouncing down really sweet light.
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The natural brassing on the bottom of the boats is what really sets them off. If they were all pretty and clean, they might not have been as fun.
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I shot so much this morning that I’ll be blogging pit and pieces of it for weeks to come. You really can’t ask more from a morning then such a reward. And I did it with just one cup of coffee. Miracles do happen!
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And this is my favorite from this stop. I like the simple.
Photos captured by D3x, 18AF / 70-200VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film
Oct 21, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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I don’t wanta brag or anything, oh yeah I do…I know how to pick dates for an adventure! Fall color will peak in the next day or two and the weather is SPECTACULAR for photography. And the Eastside, it has some of the best color in the country. These images are right out of the camera. Just take a look!
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Backlighting….nothin finer for fall color!
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Look at the background….killer!
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And this, probably my favorite fall color photo I’ve taken in the last decade. I knew it as soon as I put it in the viewfinder. Why? Well, I’m putting up these blogs on the fly. We’ve got killer thunderheads cooking over the house and gorgeous light so I’ll have to leave the reason why for a later posting. Wish you were here, this is truly paradise!
Photos captured by D3x, 70-200VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film
Oct 21, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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And just like that, the clouds slip away, the sun comes up and as it happens often at Mono Lake, the shooting becomes a challenge. A challenge why? Because you have to work for your images, mother nature doesn’t dump them at your feet.
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What I like to do in these cases is go to B&W. Now I stood exactly where I did to make this click because the dispersing cloud left a little halo around the top of the Tufa on the left. Looking at the thumbnails here on the blog, it just looks like a processing screw up. And if I didn’t say anything, half of you wouldn’t have noticed it and the other half would have thought processing error. It’s those little details that can make or break a photo.
Photos captured by D3x, 70-200VR2 / 24-70AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Oct 21, 2010 | Landscape Photography
Fall on the eastside, I still know of no batter place to experience or enjoy fall and all its rewards. I’ve been “doin” fall now for 8 weeks and while saw the best “eastern” color this past week, nothing beats the color at home!
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We started off at one of my still favorite places, Mono Lake. These photos were taken this morning, they hot off the sensor. And the sum up a point I try to make with folks. Move!
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Mono Lake is a busy place right now with the fall color in the hills and the full moon rise comin up. So as much as I watch the scenery, I watch other photographers and parking is really common. They put down their tripod and there they stay until time to get breakfast. What you see here is just five minutes of time but in those five minutes the clouds change and since they tie everything together, I felt I had to move ten feet to my right. I’m glad I did, a stronger photo for it. For both photos, a split grad .9 was used and the camera’s WB was Cloudy A6 with -2.5 exp comp. Easy stuff.
Photos captured by D3x, 18AF on Lexar UDMA digital film
