Strong Roots

Jan 262010
 

Some more from this past weekend up in the Sierras.  I turned my attention from the water for a bit to the great trees surrounding the stream.

The light range was getting pretty extreme even for the Split Grad to bring the range of light back down into the cameras range so I went a a quick blast of HDR to get the shot.  I added a bit of Tonal Contrast, and then a quick trip  into Silver Efex to finish it off.

This shot was taken before before the range of light went too far out of range using a .9 and .6 Split grad Neutral Density  filter  stacked I was able to bring the sky back in just enough for the shot.  Finished in Silver Efex Pro.

Top Image Captured with 1D Mark IIN 70-200f2.8 on Lexar digital film

Bottom Image Captured with 1D Mark IIN 16-35f2.8 on Lexar digital film

Playing in the snow melt

Jan 242010
 

So I was able to get some time today to go shooting up in the Eastern Sierras for a bit Saturday morning with my good friend Kevin.  So we packed up the gear and headed for the hills.  We were headed for a spot where we shot late last year near Quaking Aspen.  But when we started toward the top we found that due to the recent storms the road was closed.  Consequently the road closed sign stopped us right on top of a fairly fast flowing creek that provided some great shots for the day.  So with all this water blistering by I decided to get some practice in on some long exposure shooting.  My main inspiration for this was my good buddy Jeff Lynch who is a master at this stuff.  Who by the way is going to have a Texas Landscape Safari coming up in April, that I would recommend checking out.

With all these, the motion was captured by just pushing the f-stop between f13 through f22 depending on how much blur I wanted out of the water.  I lucked out that the day was overcast with another storm getting ready to blow through, which made it possible for me to do this without additional filters.  However, if you want to learn the steps in doing this with all the goodies, I highly suggest you sign up for the Safari with Jeff through the link up above.

It was a great time out there and there will be a few more posts this week with other shots form this location.  So keep and eye out.

Images Captured with 1D Mark IIn 70-200f2.8 on Lexar digital media

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