April - 8
CHASING LIGHT IN ARCHES N.P.
Today was
basically our last day of shooting this trip. It started with an overcast morning as
we tried to capture what little light was around on the structures: The Three
Gossips, Tower of Babel, and the Organ. Did not have much luck. The sun
was sleeping in!! It was also awfully windy and so we gave in, and went for
breakfast. This we grabbed at McDonalds and took it back to the house so we
could have two tutorials. The first was on how to clean your sensor, and the
second was on Photoshop using two of our images we had shot yesterday.
It was
raining most of the afternoon. Later in the afternoon we went to an early
dinner at the Moab Brewery. As the Raven Maven I tried their Black Raven
oatmeal stout. It was quite good. Lin and I shared a mushroom burger with fried
onion rings for the meal. We treated our driver to his beer, and then Lin
treated me to a souvenir glass with the Black Raven Logo on it.
After eating
we headed back into the Park though it did not look very promising. Due to the
rain we explored an area where water pockets form. It is an opportunity to get
reflections of towers in the water pockets. The challenge is that you need a
very wide angle lens and be very close and low to the ground. I had to do
most of photography hand held so had to push the ISO up to 800. Will look at
the pictures shortly to see how they came out.
You also have
to be sure that the horizon is straight, which is difficult when you are down
on your knees or back. Thankfully I started using the in camera level feature.
It really helped. We
stayed out until after sunset which was about 1953.
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| Three Gossips |
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| Dead Tree and Three Gossips |
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| Park Avenue |
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| Storm Clouds and Reflection |
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| Water Pocket Reflection |
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| Evening Storm Brewing |
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