Oct 19, 2012 | Landscape Photography
On a gorgeous fall day in NYC, 433 photographers gathered for the largest shooting event in B&H history. Sponsored by Lexar, we headed out for a 3 hour tour circling Manhattan. We had the greatest folks! Before we even sailed, I headed out to the line and meet them all. Talk about a hoot, there were folks who had flown in from Seattle to join us. How cool is that?
Even though I said I was going to wear a pirate hat, eye patch and have a sword (the ear ring was not my idea), I don’t think anyone thought I would actually go through with it. Surprise!
And the lovely lady who’s idea it was and who made it all happen, Jesica simply rocks! And she looks much better in the hat than I did! mtc
Oct 16, 2012 | Landscape Photography
I’m coming off simply an amazing 8 days of shooting in some great places with great folks and have so much to share, I honestly don’t know where to start! Sharon & I are now at our friends home in NJ and the blessings simply just keep on going. What I simply wanted to do for your Tuesday, is remind you of just how fortunate we are to be able to get out and shoot the wonders we have around us, thanks to all those who make it possible for me to do what I love to do, and give you a hint of some of the stories to come. Of course, I’ve gotta have a moment to sit down and write them and since I’m on the road for another week (and then only home for 2 days), I’ll do my best to tie a thread through all the photos you see here and a lot more. I’m a very lucky photographer to have such problems!
Oct 14, 2012 | Landscape Photography
We’re still up in NH thoroughly enjoying this gorgeous place. True, fall color is past peaked but hey, looks pretty good to me. We’re been to a bunch of cool places simply photographing the beauty that is almost around every corner. This photo was taken from the rear of the train on the way up Crawford Notch. It’s a simple click out of the D600 & 24-70AFS. I continue to shoot with the D600 as it does just a wonderful job. This day in five hours, shot 24GB of images which while it sounds like a lot, it was only 1029 images. If you look to the top of the frame on the right, that white stuff is snow. That’s where we’re heading today…can’t wait!
Oct 12, 2012 | Landscape Photography
“What do you see?” This is a question I get a lot and there’s good reason for it. I’m simply not normal! This is a prime example, we go to beautiful Jackson Falls this morning and everyone heads to the falls, I go the opposite direction. Folks have on wider lenses and I have on tele. They are pointing them up, I’m pointing mine down. It’s just me, but shooting a waterfall with a slow shutter just because I can doesn’t produce most of the time a photograph I like. And while that is the essences of the waterfall for most, that noisy crash and spray, I like the calm waters. So that’s where I tend to gravitate to when I go to photograph flowing water.
The other thing that personally works against my going to those big, overall waterfall shots all the time is sense of scale. I recently included a shot of one of the tallest waterfalls in No Am in a slideshow. It’s little known so no one in the audience except me knew just how tall it was. Ya, I could have done something about it when I took the photo but in those few seconds of the image on the screen, doubt you would have seen the scale. So for these reason and more, when I tend to do what you see here. And that leads to the question again, “What do you see?”
So what you see here is what I “saw” and then what I saw in making these images. You still don’t know scale, have no idea if the water feature is the size of a quarter or as big as a log. But you do get a little sense that what stopped me is what normally doesn’t stop others. As I said, I’m just different.
The way I go about making these images is pretty simple. I walk along the creek looking at the bubbles. We’re photographing the bubbles the water creates as it turns over the rocks. I look for simple contrast, white against the dark. When I see something I think I like, I set up the shot (D4 w/70-200VR2) and take a quick click. If I see something I like, I proceed to the next step (often, I keep on going). Next step is to dial in the shutter speed. I simply change the aperture to lower or raise my shutter speed. When I find the speed I like the best, I will shot 20+ images of the one water feature. This is because each and everyone is different. I make my selection which I like the best in post. So, I hope this long winded post answers at least for this one example, what I saw.
Oct 10, 2012 | Landscape Photography
Why do we wait? Why do some not wait? Life as we all know is fast paced, time seems to slip away even though we wish otherwise. So I often wonder as I watch photography, why they seem to want to make life and time go faster than it already does. It is not like if we do wait it guarantees success and often it’s quite the opposite. But when we do wait, even if we do get skunked, we still come away with the sweetness of that time we did stop, smell the roses and wait. I treasure those moment when I can do just that, stop and simply let life blow by me knowing, that’s what life should be doing at that moment
And such was this morning. We got up early and hit the road as usual on K&M Adventures to chase the light. We headed to a favorite Pemiquad Lighthouse, a very unique and moody lighthouse on the ME coast. When we arrived, the light was hidden behind clouds. But we knew with time, it would appear. We just didn’t know how it would appear. So we positioned ourselves for when that moment, if it happened, we could make the photo. What you see is 30min of sweet time just smelling the sea breeze with the sound of the crashing waves waiting. As it happened, the sun broke for just a heartbeat to make this scwheeeet image. This is a single click made with a split grad on the lens and nothing more. Oh, there is that one special ingredient that you can’t buy. Time and a love for just watching life go by.
