{"id":25356,"date":"2012-04-30T02:58:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T09:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/?p=25356"},"modified":"2012-04-30T02:59:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T09:59:02","slug":"km-adventure-fl-3rd-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/km-adventure-fl-3rd-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"K&M Adventure FL … 3rd Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We started a new tradition at our K&M Adventure Monument Valley of going to some place new neither Kevin or I have been to before. It’s a way to see not only how we deal with a new location, but share visual ideas as they come to us. So this morning on word from some birders (which turned out irronious) we headed to Myakka River State Park. It’s really a gorgeous place, when it’s not hot and there is moody light. We arrived when the ground fog was amazingly thick so we slammed on the brakes and stopped in this great forest area.<\/p>\n

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I remembered this photo of Jay Maisel’s of light streaming through the redwoods and his joke that he used a smoke machine to get the image. I thought of that because we could smell a fire and see the tint of it in the light streaming through the trees. So that’s what I went after with the camera. My composition was based on a couple of factors. The first was the sun itself, whether I used it as a star burst or hid it behind a trunk. Then there were the God Beams and finally the forest. So I did a dance working those elements into the frame.<\/p>\n

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Then there was the shooting. These are all 5 image handheld HDR starting at -1exp comp. Shooting with the 18mm, I could “cheat” DOF by shooting at f\/8 which gave me a relatively “fast” slow shutter speed. Then the images were assembled with Nik HDR Efex Pro and then finishing with Nik Color Efex Pro > Glamour Glow. When it comes to my favorite, it’s the bottom image and that’s probably because the light is subtle and not in your face. That might change with time though. I do know it was a gorgeous morning and a lot of fun!<\/p>\n