Ah, landscapes... my happy place.
17 March 2008, Photography
| I just added a new Landscape class to teach over at the University for the summer, as I continue to get all I have going ready for release, and I thought I'd share a couple shots from my last trip to Arches National Park, in Utah's southern desert. | |
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Bryan |
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So my friend Ed McCulloch and I just spent a few days in Arches National Park, located in southern Utah, trying to remove ourselves from the business side of our jobs for a bit, and re-focus on the very reason we started our companies in the first place...PASSION. It was only my third time there, but it was exactly what we both needed. I truly believe that to be really good at something, one needs to have a very open mind to that particular something, always willing to do whatever it takes to produce better, more inspired work, and never feeling that they are too good for something or someone, even if their main work my be worth more money in the larger scheme of things. I also believe that good landscapes usually require lots of patience, quick thinking, some climbing skills, and a willingness to deal with the elements.
With that, I leave you with two of my favorites from that trek.
This shot was a really risky image to capture because it was getting dark. The sun had begun to set earlier than I had hoped, and I was literally scrambling along this narrow ridge that was only about 2 feet wide, and roughly a couple hundred feet straight down on either side of me. The wind had picked up and I was shooting with my heavy Canon EOS 1Ds Mark 2, with my camera bag swishing from side to side, while trying to balance my weight with my extended tripod. When I finally set up my camera, I had only minutes to capture this image before the light went behind the rock faces to the West of me.
The funny thing about this shot was that after I captured the previous image, it was so dim outside, and I was carefully trying to climb down to lower ground, that I didn't notice the sun still hadn't really set yet, it was just being blocked from my view. This was the scene that greeted me just around the corner when I got down from the ridge. The moon was high in the sky, and even after I got what I wanted I sat there and watched the color of the sky shifting around, hitting the low lying clouds until it was dark. Hope you like it too.
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28 March 2008 - 23:54:23 -
MLSBETTIS
Gorgeous shots! Are these just straight from the camera or did you do any post production work?
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29 March 2008 - 11:39:17 -
Bryan
Ms. Bettis, ALL great art involves post production:) Dont worry about IN CAMERA, or POST, just do what you want to do, the WAY you want to do it. The process is always irrelevant in my book. Here is a quote from one of my favorites:
-The negative [RAW file], I believe, is equivalent to the composers score, and the final print is equivalent to the conductors performance...over half of the creative process happens in the darkroom [post production] for me, and each new print is essentially a rebirth of an image.- -Ansel Adams
As always, thank you for your kind words. I am glad you like the shots... oh, and yes, I dodged and burned these two images in my tent that night, on my laptop. This is how I envisioned what I saw that day.
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