Sep 15, 2007 | Landscape Photography
The countryside of the MI Pennisulas is simply delightful! The folks are so nice and helpful, and curious just what this white van full of photographers find interesting in their backyard. The answer is lots! Here’s a couple more examples.
Spider Lake is a small boat launch tucked way back in the middle of nowhere. We pulled up and I instantly saw the dock, shoreline and the clouds as this amazing merge of line and texture. Lens selection was a no-brainer, a 10.5, straight shot.
The bottom image is of Old Mission Lighthouse which is just a really cool place. On our visit to it yesterday it was pouring rain. The clouds started to part this afternoon so we made a run hoping to find a great sunset but instead, nearly bald skies. With the turn of the clouds, it was a high contrast B&W image which I achieved using CS3. I’m really looking forward to returning to the lighthouse to see its other moods.
DLWS starts tomorrow, no shooting but we’ll be back at it hot and heavy on Monday so I’ll post new images than. Have a great weekend shooting!
Photos captured by D200, 10.5 & D2Xs, 17-55AFS on Lexar digital film
Sep 15, 2007 | Landscape Photography
The DLWS Staff woke up and started out in a gentle rain heading up the coast to Elk Rapid. The rural landscape, barns and villages are so inviting and the land just sucks you in. In the top photo, we ventured to a great preserve that runs along the lake where some kid made this cool pattern. It was real easy to stroll out into the water and make the first capture. The B&W was even easier in Photoshop again using B&W Adj Layer with an additional Contrast Layer. The bottom image was taken along the Rapid River and is a simple straight capture. Walk up, click and continue to enjoy the grove. It was a great morning!
Photo captured by D200, 28f1.4AF on Lexar digital film
Sep 14, 2007 | Landscape Photography
My good friend and DigitalPro creator David Cardinal has for a long time told me how gorgeous this region of the US is (and he leads workshops here) but not until today doing our scouting for our upcoming Great Lakes DLWS did I discover this for myself. This is a gorgeous, gorgeous place to come and shoot! We had a great time today cruising around, exploring, shooting, playing tourist and of course, finding all the good food in preparation for our start on Sunday. All I can say is, wish you were here!
Besides keeping track of our photographic pursuits on my blog this coming week, please check out other photographic visions of the same opportunities on Laurie blog and my assistant Josh’s blog. I selected my images to blog prior to seeing what Laurie & Josh posted just because I too wanted to see how we photographically communicated the uniqueness of the same locales. It’s what makes photography so special!
In regards to these two images, the top image was shot with a 10.5 because I had seen how the waves were breaking. They were curving up towards me kinda looking like a smile. To accentuate that curve, capture that vast, great sky and the expanse of Lake MI, the fisheye was the only lens to use. The horizon is straight because I kept it dead center in the frame. I than converted the image to B&W quickly using the Black & White curve in CS3. The lower image, I just happened to have lucked out to be in the right place at the right time when a spotlight of sun hit the farm. It was only present for a few minutes.
Photo captured by D200, 10.5 & 17-55AF on Lexar digital film
Jun 7, 2007 | Landscape Photography
We were treated to Laurie’s secret big wave locale tonight. The tides weren’t huge so huge waves weren’t on the menu. But it SURE was gorgeous!
Photo captured by D2Xs, 70-180macro on Lexar digital film
Jun 6, 2007 | Landscape Photography
Holy Cow! We arrived at Bandon Beach this AM and the rain that chased us off the beach last night was still going at it. As if by control, when we opened our car doors it stopped and the light show began. I’m running out of hard drive space!!!
Photo captured by D2Xs, 14f2.8AF on Lexar digital
Jun 5, 2007 | Landscape Photography
This is the worst shot of the night. No, really! We had a storm come in that as we left in the dark, started to pour on us. Before then, we had the most incredible light, rainbows, clouds and of course this very cool lighthouse. Another late night…life is good!
Photo captured by D2Xs, 14f2.8AF on Lexar digital film
