Sep 24, 2009 | Field Reports
Oh man, seriously, where do the days go? Here is it Wed night and we’re at the end of another DLWS. A week ago I was at the Reno Air Race, week from today well be the start of Photoshop World and the time in between, DLWS has flown. It all comes and goes much to quickly!
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For our last evening, we headed down to Otter Point, truly a beautiful and romantic stretch of ME coast. For the life of me, I can’t remember what I was taught in a class about this rock other than it is really cool. Whenever I’m there, all I seem to do when there’s no giant waves is crack photography. That’s what you’re seeing here. The twist for me this time was using the 85PC-E and tilting so every edge of granite is tack sharp. I like this stuff!
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Then there is my youthful assistant Stephanie. She has in her mind to do a series of leaping images from everywhere we go. She started in the morning with McNally at Jordan Pond and finished with me in the even leaping over a giant gorge. In fact, she made the leap 33 times. And man, can that girl leap! No, not leap, fly. You have the Karate Leap, Long Jump Leap and the Leap of Joy. Stephanie is a great kid, great assistant and friend. I don’t know of a better visual to say we have a kick ass time here in ME with our new DLWS friends!
Tech Note: Stephanie was shot at 1/4000 f4 at ISO400 using FP Flash. The raise in the ISO was to get the high shutter speed in the darkish light. FP was used to stop the action, a single SB-900 is the light source. Pretty simple stuff, at least when you go to the McNally school of Flash.
Photos captured by D3x, 85PC-E / 14-24AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Sep 23, 2009 | Field Reports
My first morning, not so good. That afternoon, started to get back into landscape shooting mode. Tuesday morning started off to be a challenge in the fog and then as time moved on, there were images to be found everywhere.
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I posted this photo in haste just to make fun of my dear friend McNally but it wasn’t finished. If you look at it, you’ll see what I’m referring to. I wanted darker, cleaner water and wanted the blue in the left boat not competing with the boat on the right. I achieved the finished image by using Silver Efex Pro and painting out via a Layer Mask the effect on the boat on the right. I like this image much better finished.
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Sticking with the nautical theme, I continued down the dock to there boats. This was a pretty image to do once I change my idea to crop out with lens selection the photographers on the right of the dock shooting. That dictated to me going B&W to still further remove visual elements bugging me.
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This was the shot that really made my morning. The colors just knock my socks off! I shot with the 45 PC-E so the plane of focus runs through the bow of the boat to the rope while shooting at just f/4. I needed to do this to get a shutter speed fast enough to deal with wave action. Then finishing was all done in NX2.
Photos captured by D3x, 45 PC-E on Lexar UDMA digital film
Sep 22, 2009 | Field Reports
Here’s the proof….Joe’s lying on smelly, fish gut covered dock with a 50f1.4AFS shooting the bow of a dingy to create a landscape image! No flash, no flash remote, reflectors not in sight. This is a true McNally landscape shooting sighting!
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In all seriousness, Joe had a very cool find which he shared and soon, the small dock was covered with DLWS shooters. Joe shot at f1.4 to have a very narrow band of focus. I wanted the same thing so shot the same scene using the 24PC-E lens, tilting the lens to achieve the same basic effect. In my interpretation of the scene, I went high and limited my band of focus to the seats.
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Photos captured by D3x, 200VR / 24 PC-E on Lexar UDMA digital film
Sep 14, 2009 | Field Reports
DLWS is very excited to be heading to New Hampshire’s Mt Washington Valley in Sept 26-29, 2010. We’re staying at the historic Eagle Mtn House in the heart of great fall color, Americana and ghosts!
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Very few if any workshops head to this part of the country for fall so we thought we’d head there and explore it with you. To be honest with you, I’ve never been there, this photo is from VT. The DLWS will be heading to this locale long before folks arrive and have some amazing shoots already scouted out to share with you. It will be great fun to share this new find with you (don’t worry, we’re heading to this locale for known reasons).
We do regret we are having to raise our prices for the first time. Normal registration will be $995 and we’ll still be honoring the 5% discount for NAPP members. We do expect this DLWS event to fill just as quickly as all our events since it is so special. We look forward to sharing it with you. DLWS, where Passion feels the Pixel!
Sep 14, 2009 | Field Reports
Welcome to the new site! After four years, thought it was time to update. After six months of thought, moving and a lot of TLC, we have the new site up! We, as in that genius RC and myself. RC gets most the credit for making this happen. I said I wanted to combine my website and blog and he did all the heavy listing. I owe RC, again, a GIANT Thanks! He got all the pages from the website moved over and into pages here, I had the fun chore of updating, cleaning up and organizing. What a job!
While all the pages from the website are here, I’ve only got about 65% updated (I got side tracked with making new content). With the genius of RC shaping WordPress, everything is cross referenced so finding the vast content here is much easier (once I get finished organizing everything, I’m close). The top row of tabs basically give you access to all the old website content. The lower set of tabs give you access to all the blog content. That totals over 3000 pages of free information (not including the video library)! While that sounds like a lot, it’s all easy to find and I’m adding more. And when you’re looking for new blog posting, just look to the right under Recent Posts. With as often as I blog, you’ll have to keep coming back to keep up or sign up to get the updates delivered to your mail box.
One new section I’m very happy to add is Moose’s Heroes. These are photographers who are using their skill and talent behind the lens to bring to the public’s attention our wild heritage. These photographers are my heroes!
I do owe a huge THANKS to Jan Allinder for bringing me this far and taking such good care of our web needs and desires. She’s always been there when I need her, she’s a great friend and great at making my web presence looking so good. Thanks Jan!
We think what we have here is the future of the web, a website and blog all in one (or, going back to the old days, take your pick). I know that this will make it possible for me to bring you even more content and highlight more of what I think will help your photography and how your photography can help our wild heritage.
Enjoy, and have fun exploring all that’s new!
Sep 13, 2009 | Field Reports
PhotoRescue has resided on my computer since the first days of the D1. It’s one of the first programs I load on a new computer. I’m never without it. Why? Because there is always the possibility, usually at the worst moment, that images/video have to be rescued off a card. For me that time was when I was in such a bloody hurry, I forget to download a card and went back out shooting with it. This happened once and if it weren’t for PhotoRescue, I would have lost that earlier shoot.
For many though, PhotoRescue is a must because of bad card habits. The program is only $29 yet I know of very few digitals shooters shooting with their $5000 body who’ve purchased this simple butt-saving program. Typically, they come up to me in a panic because they’ve lost their images and don’t have any solutions to rescue them. Do yourself a big favor, your images deserve it. Download the program right here for either Windows or Mac and try it for yourself. I guarantee that it’s not a matter of if, but of when you’ll use the program.
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