Sep 23, 2008 | Landscape Photography
We woke up to a gorgeous morning. That might sound wonderful but we were all set to shoot a foggy, moody morning in a graveyard with a model. So we went to plan B, Friday Harbor.It’s not that we suffered, not by any means, but it meant at least for me I had to work past “not seeing” subject to seeing photographs.
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In fact, I had to reach down and think about what I wanted to do with my images. It meant pushing my limited PS knowledge to come up with the dock shot. It’s another subject to think about, learn to come up with a little better image next time.
Photos captured by D3, 16f2.8, 14-24AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Sep 22, 2008 | Landscape Photography
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It has been one heck of a day! I’m so late getting blogged because I still had so many cool images I like from this morning AM’s shoot, I just got through this evening photos. We’re very fortunate to have Joe Sliger, our own Mr Wacom with us because he use to live on San Juan Island.
Tonight he took to a forest where elves surely live. This grove had its own very unique character. Perhaps it was the graveyard, perhaps it was the view of all the surrounding islands from the top of its knoll, perhaps it was just all the energy from photographers thoroughly enjoying photography. Whatever it was, I thank it for all the images it gave up to us.
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These images were finished by lighting the forest floor in NX2 and polishing the colors with Color Efex’s Tonal Contrast. More great stuff to come, I can’t wait!
Photos captured by D3, 24-70AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Sep 22, 2008 | Landscape Photography
photo captured by D3, 200VR on Lexar UDMA digital film
Sep 22, 2008 | Landscape Photography
Oh man, what a morning! The weather opened up and the light just kissed us this morning! We started at 06:00 making sure all cameras were set, questions answered so when the sun would hopefully arrive in 30min, we’d be good to go.
We only venture three minutes from our lodge to the docks this morning. Getting up early, being in the right place and the right time and a little luck is all that was required to make the images. Life doesn’t come any sweeter!
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Both of these images were taken with the same lens and finished the same way in NX2 & CS4. Combined, it took a minute to finish these images. Life is good.
Photos captured by D3, 24PC on Lexar UDMA digital film
May 22, 2008 | Landscape Photography
It’s hard to say good-bye, but we’ve had our last shoot, saw an amazing participant slideshow and now it’s time to die. Tonight we went to another favorite grove, Del Norte. More difficult to shoot, it does have some real treasures locked up in its trees. As you can see, I was shooting in a B&W mode and enjoyed every moment of it!
I want to publically state a huge thank you and express my respect for those who are the DLWS staff. Joe, Laurie, Kevin, Josh, Brad, Joe and especially Sharon make DLWS special for our participants and make sure that the main ingredient of DLWS, the passion for photography, flows! Here’s right back at you guys!
Photos captured by D3, 200f2VR on Lexar UDMA digital film
May 20, 2008 | Landscape Photography
We spent the evening out on the rocks over Battery Point. While this God Beam is kissing the horizon, McNally has nine guys lighting themselves with SB-800s just out of frame left on a rock out in the water. It’s a typical scene at DLWS but man, did we draw a crowd.
The main show was the Battery Point Lighthouse. While it normally doesn’t work this way (requiring the taking of two photos, one for the waves and a second for the light), I lucked out and got the waves and light in one capture making my post time a snap. For the very first time, I found a when the “vivid” setting in the D3 worked.
Photos captured by D3, 200f2VR on Lexar UDMA digital film
