I love looking for abstracts and one place I found a lot is in Las Vegas and its old neon signs. The secret to getting interesting photos like this is keeping your eyes out for. good shot and see it in a small frame of the overall image. I call this a picture in the picture. This means that the big overall shot is most likely nice, but the tight close up shot is another good shot and part of the big one.
I ws testing out the Fuji GFX50 camera in Toronto this past fall. I took one of the shots made outside my hotel window of the Toronto City Hall and turned into a Tiny Planet circular image. I did this by importing the image from my computer into Photos and then editing it on my iPad and then exporting it back to my computer. Sounds like a bit of work but it was real simple.
Sometimes it’s not always the landscape that I shoot. i enjoy photographing many things. While in Oregon along the Columbia River we re we shooting the river and fall colors. I hear the horn of a train and luckily we were position below a set of train tracks that run along the river. I set myself up wanting to see how well continuous autofocus on my camera works and prepare for the train I heard coming. In about a minute this giant mile long train come rushing by. This is the shot I like the best. Low angle and fills the frame just right. Ends up making. pretty cool image.
It’s been several years since I had been to Bryce Canyon National Park. I visited Bryve back in the fall and just now I’m really getting a chnce to edit and work my images. I like to photograph Bryce with long lenses. I have done way too many postcard shots of Bryce. So, I set my tripod up and put on a 100-400mm lens on my Sony a7r III and started to search through the viewfinder. The landscape would change as the sun would rise and shadows and light would dance. It was great and I had a chance to make some real nice expsoures. This is one of them.
I was going through the images from my trip last August and came across this one. I like this image as it really sums a lot up about Greenland. Large rock walls, icebergs and bits of humanity. The sailboat and iceberg against the solid towering rock walls makes a great shot. I printed this image to 17×22 inches and will be hanging it in my office.
I have visited Scotland a few times while running photo workshops there. It’s an amzingly beautiful country with all sorts of photographic surprises. One plave that I alwasy visit is Castle Eilean Donan. No matter what time of day you go you can find good shots. During the day though you may find too many tourists. I like to shoot at dawn and dusk. This is one image of the castle I really like.
A few years ago I did the Red Center in Australia. Before we got too deep in the outback we visited Ormiston Gorge a littles ways from Alice Springs. There are a number of gorges in cental Australia. during some of the year there is hardly any water running in them. when I visited there was great water and I was able to do some nice images. This is a pano image done from a small uprise in the middle of the river. my feet got wet and cold but I got the shot.
One of the most picturesque areas of Italy is the dolomites. The mountains and villages are straight out of a storybook. This little valley is just one of those places. Not too many places have a view that lloks like thgis. I have been to the Dolomites a few times and each time find new locations that make the area so special.
Like yesterday’s post I look for images that are just part of something bigger. This image is an oil storage tank I found in Valparaiso, Argentine when visiting there. I put the long lens on and shot the tank with the stairway going through from one corner to the other. It makes a viewer stop and look at the image because they don’t know what they are looking at.
In my last post I spoke of looking around you to make sure you don’t miss the shot. Today I want to encourage you to look into the landscape. Put a lonh lens on your camera and explore the elements that make up the shot. I have been doing this a lot lately and come out with beautiful images. This ius part of the Grand Canyon visia in UT. I did my wide shots with the wider angle lenses and then put a 100-400mm lens on my Sony. Zoomed all the way to 400mm I loooked around the landscape and he image above is one of the many elements I cme across.
I hv done this for the last year and found I am getting some beutiful results.