I know I’ve said scenery is boring, and maybe that’s true, but these 5 work well together. Boring, white skies, as if I were using ortho film, but you can’t change the weather. We drove and walked over some interesting ground durning the day that day.
well, these aren’t dramatic nature photos so much. really, these are as close as i get to regular tourist photos.
I did these mostly because it was a grey, cold day in the valley. You can’t predict the weather. so, I did what I’d always been taught to do: when the pictures aren’t working, get closer. Simplify. Figure out what attracted you to what you’re pointing the camera at in the first place, and move in towards that. Sometimes it works. Sometimes that means you have to do a little bouldering. Sometimes that means you’re digging through layers to find something to wipe the mist off of your lens. Whatever works.
We got to the park, and we were all really super tired and cold. Since there were several photographers in the group, though, we had to go out and shoot, at least a little. The first two images I’ve already put out, shot hand-held at obscene ISO. the rest of these were shot on a tripod, at longer exposures (but still at ISO 6400 or so). I really wish it had been this clear in the daylight. Instead, it rained all day on us, and so most of my shots were equally gray. Lesson learned: keep shooting when the light is good. Sleep when you’re dead.
I swear I don’t mean to be dribbling out these photos one at a time, but the last two days… well, I got the flu (thanks, flu shot, for nothing), and my RAID had to be rebuilt. Luckily for me, adding a disk back to the raid is all automagic, because I’ve been pretty worthless otherwise. In any case, I’m alive, and hopefully tomorrow I’ll be back at it.
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