In Black and White!
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Make it a Grand Photographic Weekend!
In Color
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While we beat the storm for the morning, the clouds tell the story of what’s to come. High winds, bloody high winds of 89mph in town and 140+mph over the ridges. Seeing the clouds, I stopped with the light skimming over the sage figuring our shooting for the day was quickly coming to an end. Wanting a great starburst off the sun, I grabbed the 24PC-E. I then made a quick 7 iamge HDR exposure.
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The sun was out, then it wasn’t, then it was, I wondered if the D3x 1.8fps could capture enough in 7 images to make a final image with the starburst I wanted. As it turned out the weather forecast in my head turned out accurate, we were literally blown out of our afternoon shoot by amazing high winds and raid. Later this night we had a “tornadic” like event where a large pine was snapped off and carried up and over a home to land in the front yard without doing any damage to the home. We lost a number of trees including a favorite woodpecker tree in the backyard so it was quite the wind storm. It was a killer time with really nice folks. Grateful for their coming up to the Eastside and taking a journey with us in what we think is a slice of paradise!
Photos captured by D3x, 24PC-E on Lexar UDMA digital film
Since the cloud wouldn’t play with me the way I wanted, I went and made do with what I had. Again, using lights and darks, I went vertical. I also went HDR for B&W, finished in color before going to B&W
One of the gang asked why I did HDR for this shot. My reasoning was simple, I wanted detail in the rock. With HDR, it was a solid black mass. It has so much character that I wanted that in the photo. To get that exposure info, I went HDR.
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How can exposure, light and darks change the photographic message or story? Lights and darks along with color are kind of corner posts of my landscape photography. See that white cloud on the left…..
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For some reason, while all the rest of the clouds were cranking on by, it sat still and I didn’t like where it was. So I moved up, down, left, right trying to get it in the place I would have preferred. But I never could get it where I wanted it behind the rocks on the left.
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The reason I wanted it in a different place because of how I felt it would lead the eye around in the frame as well as bring a visual depth to the whole scene. Because in the end, rather then move, the winds just blew it apart and I ended up with nothing. I know I missed a couple of other cool shots by stacking out this one scene, but I do that at times, kinda of putting all my eggs in one landscape basket. And it was all based on simple lights and darks. Oh yeah, thesee are all 7 image HDR photos.
Photo captured by D3x, 24PC-E on Lexar UDMA digital film
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I feel pretty darn comfortable with Photomatic Pro 4.01 and 7 image HDR now. Both of these images which match what I saw and felt pretty damn close through the magic of really good math!
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Yeah, it would have been really easy to whack out the colors with HDR, I could have made the limited glow really dominate the photograph. I could have taken the foreground and made it look like it was lit with 50000 watts of flash but that’s just now how I see our landscape, especially this morning. And all of that doesn’t really mean dittly squat! No matter how you use any particular technique, HDR or anything else, make it match how YOU see and feel and it will have been done to perfections!
Photos captured by D3x, 24-70AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film