Our last shoot of the Moab 2008 DLWS event found us back at Cisco. It is truly a treasure chest made up of old junk just crying to be photographed. The “Thelma & Louis” car was quite a popular prop for folks. Few found this cool, old, rusty coke machine and lastly is my favorite, Sharon looking out through that killer homemade screen door at sunset.
Photos captured y D3, 14-24AFS & 200VR on Lexar UDMA digital film
We went scouting today and did we strike pay dirt! The old town of Cisco Landing landed us a treasure trove of great images. Starting with moonset. This is a composite of two images, one with the buildings in focus, the other of just the moon in focus. Even Nikon can’t pull off that kind of DOF with the 200-400VR!
Next, I walked down the “street” to this old gas station and with the 14-24AFS, did a artsy fartsy self portrait.
Then, I got out of my own way to photograph the front of the gas station. What appears to be the shadow of my legs on the right is actually a paint stain. Using the 200f2VR, I could shoot through the rear window and have it totally out of focus. This image was finished using Nik ColorEfex 3.0, Monday Morning filter. Whenever I’m doing this type of shooting, I already have in my mind applied, like in this case, the Monday Morning filter which makes composition possible.
Laurie on her explorations found this cool green door which I shot with the 14-24AFS really wide. This was finished with ColorEfex 3.0 Tonal Contrast.
Then, finding this cool door with a hand made screen, I got Laurie to pose to finish off a great morning of shooting!
Since I’m spending the rest of the day in my room putting the finishing touches on my Photoshop World presentations (I’m doing a record number for me this time), I posted extra images. Hopefully you can get a sense of how my mind was working this morning by the progression of images. It was a good, solid morning of making images!
Photos captured by: heck, everything in my camera bag!
FL Base Camp was great, thanks everyone!
I can’t thank enough my own “personal” videographer Jason for spending so much time making me look good. Look at him, hard to believe this was his first “wildlife” video.
But ….there’s no place like home!
You asked for it and the DLWS Staff is going to deliver! We’ve added back the 6th 2008 DLWS event and man, I can’t wait! 09-12 Nov, based out of Bozeman MT we’ve got two, never before shoots lined up that, well, simply we just can’t wait to bring folks! We won’t all be wearing cowboy hats but to say it’s a western theme is an understatement. But who knows, may be we’ll all have an opportunity to photograph Joe McNally riding a horse off into the sunset. I don’t want to give too much away but with all our 2008 events full, I wouldn’t wait too long to register. Look forward to seeing you there…partner!
Oh my, we’ve gone and finally done it, joined the online video craz (remember, I was hesitant to get into the blog craz too). The first two of our D3 videos are now posted. They cover the AF operation of the D3. Learning Premiere actually turned out to be the easiest part of this. Did you know that SB-800s don’t work with video? I’ve got new lights coming because I’ve got to improve the lighting but at least the information is still there.
Working on the next two videos right now on D3 flash, hope to have them up in the next week. Enjoy!
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