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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