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First Light on Bandon Beach – Oregon Coastline, Oregon

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Jul 122012
 

First Light on Bandon Beach • Oregon Coastline, Oregon

Hi everyone and welcome to today’s post. This image of complete calm and relaxation was taken at Bandon Beach along the Oregon Coastline. Bandon is a frequent stop over for many photographers because of the beautiful wide beaches and wonderful sea stacks. But the light here can also be amazing. To be quite honest I was hoping for some clouds with open horizons so I could shoot for color and reflections in the left over pools of water. But alas that was not to be. But in the landscape photographers world we have to take what Mother Nature gives us and feel blessed to be in such a beautiful location.

What I got when I arrived was a massive amount of wind. It was really blowing a gale and it made my afternoon scouting trip a little difficult. If this continued the evening shoot would not go well. While back at the hotel the clerk assured me the daily pattern had been calm in the mornings, lots of wind during the day, and calmer by the early evening. So I took him at his word. After all if you want to know the weather it pays to go to the local sources. The evening shoot went off without a hitch and I awoke in the early morning to some very calm conditions. This image was made just before the sun broke the horizon. Fog particulates over the ocean glowed with the yellow tones of the sun and the beach reflected the blue light of the morning sky. This formation is known as the Witches Hat though its shape is not quite as evident from my shooting location. To frame the shot I positioned the Witches Hat in the left third of the frame and used a strong leading line of water to help bring the eye into the shot. The image was made from one exposure and processed in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.

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Bob

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The Witches Hat – Bandon Beach, Oregon

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May 082012
 

The Witches Hat • Bandon Beach, Oregon

Hi everyone and welcome to today’s post. I freely admit that I have been absent from my usual, and consistent, blog posts. Several things in my schedule have conspired to keep from my regular postings. Some of you know that as a side activity I coach pole vault at our local high school. For the past four years I have had the pleasure to coach my daughter in this difficult event and this is now her senior year. The time I have been able to spend with her is priceless and in this last year I have concentrated most of my time to get her to the state meet. I am sure most you will understand the importance of this commitment. On top of all this is the planning and details for her graduation, prom, senior trip, preparing for college in the fall, and, well the list goes on. It is just a busy time and I am wearing many hats as the summer approaches. I have also been hard at photography for quite some time and quite frankly I needed a small break and an opportunity to recharge my batteries. As they say “to much of a good thing…..”

So for this post please enjoy a twilight shot of the Witches Hat from Bandon Beach. The shot represents the many hats I am wearing right now. I do have several photography trips lined up for the early summer including a return trip to White Sands and a visit to Carlsbad Caverns. I am really excited to visit Carlsbad as I will be able to see the twilight exodus of the Brazilian Free-Tail Bats. It promises to be a unique experience.

I hope all of you are well and I appreciate your visits to the site.

Bob

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Vidae Falls – Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

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Oct 052011
 

Vidae Falls, Crater Lake National Park. Image shot with a Sony a900 and a Sony 70-300 lens at 200mm. Image exposed at ISO 100 at f11 for 1.5 seconds.

Hi everyone and welcome to today’s post. Today’s image is a close up view of Vidae Falls, located on the East Rim Drive, in Crater Lake National Park. This waterfall is the best known and most viewed at the park and easily accessible by a turnout on the Rim Drive. Though many people presume the falls represent a leak in the crater the source is actually 600 feet above the lake levels. It is formed by springs which flow together to become Vidae Creek. At a a high point just above the drive the creek plunges over 100 feet through a landscape of native wildflowers.

The closeup was shot at the lower base of the falls as it flows into a scree field. While it is often desirable to photograph the entire waterfall, and I am no exception here, some of the best shots come from isolating the various cascades and shooting a more intimate portrait. A good telephoto works wonders for these compositions and the falls can be explored visually from a safe distance. Though Vidae can be shot in the early morning my preference is late in the afternoon after the sun has passed overhead. The result is a shot where the falls are more evenly lit by ambient light without hotspots and harsh specular light.

Technical Details: To shoot this image I wanted to slow down my shutter speed to produce the flowing, frozen ice, look to the water. To achieve this effect I made a “filter sandwich” with my Heliopan Circular Warming Polarizer and a Singh-Ray 4-Stop Neutral Density Filter. The polarizer has the added benefit of reducing specular highlights in the water and other surfaces wet surfaces such as rocks and plants. As the flow of waters constantly changing I made many exposures so I could chose an image with a pleasing look to the water.

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Bob

 

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Tidal Pool and Sea Stacks – Bandon Beach, Oregon

 Adobe Lightroom, Bandon Beach, Color Burn Technique, Landscape, Landscape Photography, Nikon D3x, Oregon, Oregon Coast, Pacific Ocean, Photography Technique, Photography Trips, Photoshop Technique, Photoshop Workflow, Robert H Clark Photography, Singh-Ray Filters, Split Neutral Density Filters, Twilight Photography  4 Responses »
Oct 022011
 

Tidal Pool and Sea Stacks, Bandon Beach, Oregon. Image shot with a Nikon D3x and a Nikkor 17-35mm lens at 24mm. Image exposed at ISO 100 at f11 for 1.5 seconds.

Hi everyone and welcome to today’s post. Today’s image was shot at Bandon Beach along the beautiful Oregon coastline. I only had time for two shooting sessions at Bandon-afternoon/evening and sunrise. I arrived at Bandon in the early afternoon to a howling gale, high tide, and blowing sand from dunes along the back of the beach. I was hoping to get some dramatic clouds to work into my compositions but I was greeted with clear skies. Scouting for possible shots was a challenge in the contrasty light and I was constantly pelted by sand and debris. I was already tired from the drive and found the beach’s welcome less than hospitable. When you feel this way it is best to back off and just breath a bit. I went back to the hotel to check the weather conditions and the hotel owner told me that the wind would abate for the evening. He promised.

And indeed the wind died. The tide rolled out and left an expansive beach full of tidal pools and amazing rocks covered in mussels and starfish. Though I was hoping for some dramatic clouds I was treated to some amazing pink and magenta twilight light. I found this rock encircled in a tidal pool and set against a back drop of illuminated sea stacks. In the far distance you can see “Face Rock” lying in repose in the Pacific Ocean.

Tidal Pool and Sea Stacks. The Processed RAW file brought into Photoshop.

Technical Details: I used a Singh-Ray 3-Stop, Soft Edge, Split Neutral Density filter to balance the light. The WB was set to 5500K. RAW processing was done in Lightroom with final finishing in Photoshop. Take a look at the RAW file below and you can see the dramatic changes achieved through layer manipulations in Photoshop. The images below illustrate the starting point and some of the details from my processing to achieve the final image.

I almost always start with a Cleaning Layer. I perform some digital gardening in Lightroom but deal with the more difficult spots with the Cloning Tools on a separate layer. I dealt with some color cast issues in the next Layer. Keep in mind that with my first layers I am almost always dealing with Global Image Adjustments. My Detail Image Adjustments are made after Global. So for the color cast I felt the file was a bit too magenta and this was killing off some of the blues in the shot. I used a Curve Layer and adjusted the Red Curve and made a further correction in a Selective Color Layer.

Tidal Pool and Sea Stacks. Images zones worked to achieve the final image.

At this point I began looking at my more specific Detail Image Adjustments based on final vision for the file. In Area 1. I wanted to make some very specific adjustments to bring out the Contrast, Luminosity, and Color in the sea stacks. In Area 2. I wanted to bring out the Contrast, Luminosity, and Color in the rock. And in Area 3. I wanted to make a global Color change to the pool and pick out some minute details.

For Area 1. I used tow Curve Layers, one for increasing the Contrast and one for increasing the Luminosity. By Contrast I am referring to the relative difference between Darks, Midtones, and Lights. Here I am simply making subtle adjustments to the  3/4  Points (darks) Mid Tone Point, and the 1/4 Point (lights). Essentially I am making a slight “S” Curve. For Luminosity I am referring to the overall brightness. This is achieved with another Curve Layer where I am sliding the White Point over towards the Mid Point (see the screen captures below for the dramatic effect this achieves. Since I only want to apply the effect locally I use a Black Layer Mask and paint through to reveal the change.

Screen Shot of the Luminosity Adjustment Layer.

The screen shot below shows the Luminosity Layer turned on to reveal the dramatic difference to the overall brightness of the sea stacks. You will also notice the difference in the sea stack reflection in the water. Painting in the change on the foreground rock also dramatically raised the level of brightness and detail. I had what I needed in overall Contrast and Luminosity so I added a Mid Tone Contrast Layer. This is essentially a targeted High Pass Filter Layer applied to the Mid Tone components of the

Scree Shot of the Luminosity Adjustment Layer turned on to show results.

file. You can search my site for posts on how to make this layer. This was followed by Creative Sharpening applied to a “Merge Visible” Layer. Both this layer and the Mid Tone Contrast are essentially tweaking out contrast against the edges to increase the apparent sharpness of the image. The last piece of the work flow are my Dodge and Burn and Color Burn Layers. I dodge and burn my files extensively. It is essentially painting with light and dark on an Overlay Layer with a 50% Fill. Using a soft brush at low opacity I paint in details where light and shadow meet. It is a painting layer that sculpts the file.

The Color Burn Layer is where I can add and intensify the colors of the files. I have written a post on this as well. Please search the site for the details on how to perform this technique. Hopefully this post has given you some insight as to how I processed this image and some of the various techniques I use to achieve the results. As always if you read this and have any questions please use Contact Form link in the Site Menu and send me an e-mail.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Bob

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Star Trails and White Bark Pine – Crater Lake National Park

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Sep 282011
 

Star Trails over White Bark Pine, Crater Lake National Park.

Hi everyone and welcome to today’s post. In my last post I promised to leave the waterfalls for a bit and post something “other worldly”. I think today’s star trail shot qualifies for “other worldly”. I was at Crater Lake National Park about a month ago and found it to be one of the darkest places I have ever been. The night sky was amazing and every evening you could see the Milky Way glowing brightly and stretching across the sky from horizon line to horizon line. I did not anticipate shooting a star trail shot but after I found this amazing remnant of a white bark pine I had to give it a go. The tree clings to an out cropping of rocks along the crater rim and can be found on the West Rim Drive at an overlook near Hillman Peak. Despite the dark sky I still had an issue with the ambient light coming from the Crater Lake Lodge which can be seen in the lower right hand side of the image. But after working on the file I came to like the amber glow that frames Garfield Peak. You can also see part of the Milky Way which is the blurred area in the upper right.

Technical Details: Image was shot with a Nikon D3x and a Nikkor 15mm Rectilinear Lens. The image was pre-framed when I still had some light. The 40 minute, one-take, exposure was made at ISO 400 at f5.6. I started the exposure at 9:30 which was well after astronomical twilight to ensure a very dark sky.  I used an electronic release with a timer to make the exposure. With 3 minutes to go I light painted the pine using an 80 lumen LED flashlight. I shone the light through my moving fingers which acted as a light diffuser. Just a word of caution when working with single exposure star trails. Make sure you do not turn off your camera after the exposure is made. After your shot the camera will take the same amount of time as your exposure time to process the image. Final processing was done in Photoshop and consisted of a series of layer to bring out details in the tree and the star trails. A small amount of noise reduction was also performed.

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Bob

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Seastacks at Waters Edge – Bandon Beach, Oregon

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Sep 062011
 

Seastacks at Waters Edge, Bandon Beach, Oregon. Shot with a Sony a900 and a Sony SAL 20mm lens. Images exposed at ISO 100 at f11 for 2 seconds.

Hi everyone and welcome to today’s post. Today’s image was shot at sunset on Bandon Beach along the Oregon coastline. I had an opportunity to shoot on the Oregon coast about a year ago and though I had dreadful weather I knew I wanted to make a return trip. It is a wild and rugged coastline with beautiful stretches of beach and incredible shoreline seastacks. Bandon Beach is but one of many accessible shorelines along the Oregon coastline. It is an intimate and intriguing beach that is very accessible and can be shot at sunrise or sunset. In this shot the late evening sun backlit a large seastack out in the ocean causing it to glow in a warm, orange light that was the perfect complement to blue hues in the sand and water. The tide was out and an impromptu river of water was flowing back towards the Pacific Ocean. There was a beautiful, crisp, clarity to the air and the light was simply stunning.

Technical Details: The image was shot in two exposures with a 3-Stop, Singh-Ray Soft Edge, Split Neutral Density Filter. The two exposures were focus brackets and the file was merged in Helicon Focus before final finishing in Photoshop. Each of the RAW files was processed with the same settings in Lightroom and saved out as TIFF files before exporting to Helicon.

If you make the trek to Bandon I would recommend the Bandon Beach Motel. The hotel sits on a cliff over looking the beach and offers instant access to the shoreline via a stairway. When you get there ask for Caleb and tell him you want room 205, the one on the corner with the amazing view.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Bob

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Cloud Reflections – Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

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Sep 042011
 

Cloud Reflections, Crater Lake National Park. Shot with a Sony a900 and a Sony SAL 20mm lens. Image exposed at ISO 100 at f11 for 1/30th of a second.

Hi everyone and welcome to today’s post. After a long stint in the field I am finally back at home saddled with the joyful task of sorting through quite a few images. Many of the images I took on this trip will require some time consuming post-processing as I shot a lot of bracketed exposures for Helicon Focus and Photomatix. I will get to these as soon as time allows. In the meantime please enjoy a new black and white image from Crater Lake National Park.

This shot was made early in the morning from the south rim side of lake and is looking across Wizard Island towards Llao Peak. When I arrived a little before 6:00am the lake was calm and a near perfect mirror for reflections. I fooled around for about 20 minutes trying to decide where to make the shot and by the time I had set up the had wind picked up on the lake surface. Intermittent gusts though only disturbed portions of the lake leaving some areas completely calm. I was immediately irritated with myself for taking too long and losing the opportunity to fill the lake with cloud reflections. But as I watched the lake surface change I found this turn of events far more interesting and liked the muted nature of the cloud reflections in the lake. Often the wind levels on the lake leave the surface featureless which makes composition difficult since you have to balance the thin line of the crater rim and the mass of the lake. On this day I could use the crater rim as a distinctive line that separated the cloud patterns between earth and water. Additionally the patterns in the lake became my foreground elements.

Technical Details: The image was shot with a Sony a900 and a 20 mm lens. The image was exposed at ISO 100 at f11 for 1/30th of a second. The white balance was set to 5500K. I used two Singh-Ray Split Neutral Density Filters: A 3-Stop Soft edge for the top, above the rim to cover the sky, and a 2-Stop Soft Edge, below the rim to cover the water. The RAW file was processed in Lightroom and the final file was finished in Photoshop.

There are more things to come including images from the Oregon Coast and the California Redwoods. So stay tuned.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Bob

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Coastal Sea Stacks – Canon Beach

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Aug 152010
 

Coastal Sea Stacks, Canon Beach, Oregon. Shot with a Sony a900 and a Sony G, 70-200mm lens at 200mm. Image exposed at ISO 100 at f13 for 1 second.

Hi everyone and welcome to today’s post. This post should be filed under the category of acceptance. The image is a grouping of sea stacks off the Oregon Coast near Canon Beach. The weather, which I had to accept, was dismal. I went to Canon Beach with an image in mind but nature chose to hand me a different scenario. It rained for three days. Hard, then mist, then hard again. The wind blew in off the ocean pelting and spotting my lenses. Even with my camera rain cover it was nearly unmanageable. Acceptance became the theme. What I wanted was not going to happen no matter how much I cursed the conditions. Acceptance was necessary to move beyond my irritation and begin to see the possibilities. This image, for me, represents acceptance. After three days I began to really look beyond the weather and to see the power of what the weather created. Plus I realized if I switched to my telephoto lens I could use the deep lens hood to keep water off the lens. Necessity is the mother of invention. Acceptance led me to a shot which evokes the grey, stormy, Oregon Coast.

I shot this in the late evening in tungsten white balance to accentuate the blue tones. And while I like the blues it just did not seem right. I spent some time looking at the image in Lightroom before deciding how I wanted to process the final composition. In this case a severe crop to isolate the sea stacks and a conversion to black and white did the trick. I like the repetition of rock forms and the beautiful softness created by the misting rain. I look at this image now and can still feel the wind biting my face. Acceptance played a hand in the creation of this shot. Letting go of what we want and seeing what we have is the path we must take.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Bob

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Cannon Beach – Tidal Pool Rocks

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Jun 032010
 

Cannon Beach, Tidal Pool Boulder, Oregon. Shot with a Sony α900 and a Sony 20mm lens. Image exposed at ISO 100 at f16 for 1/2 of a second.

Hi everyone. I’m getting ready to head out on a trip again so I thought I would post another image from Cannon Beach on the Oregon coast. This is a shot of one of the many tidal pool boulders that dotted the beachscape. These are not really boulders but are actually connected to the volcanic reef under the sand. As the tide moves in and out the water washes around these rocks creating deep pools that harbor starfish, sea urchins, and other aquatic life.

The RAW file was processed in Adobe Lightroom with final work done in Photoshop.

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Bob

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Cannon Beach Vista – Oregon Coast

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May 312010
 

Cannon Beach Vista. Shot with a Sony a900 and a Zeiss 24-70mm lens at 24mm. Image exposed at ISO 100 at f16 for 4 seconds.

Hi everyone. Here is an image I just shot on my recent trip out to the Oregon Coast. I was in Portland for a few days and spent a day and a half in Cannon Beach. If you have been following my Twitter Posts you know that I did more eating than shooting. The weather was simply impossible. While pelting rain and wind made conditions interesting it was nonetheless difficult for photography. Even with my camera “raincoat” and an umbrella wind blew drops into the lens. So some of my shots came from the short periods between squalls. This image was shot looking towards Haystack Rock and the Needles seastacks. What caught my eye was the distinct dynamic line of the ocean and the clouds leading towards the dark mass of Haystack. Additionally , the wisp of clouds was mirrored in the patterns of sand left by the receding water.

Within minutes the patterns were gone. I shot almost 25 images of this composition to get this one exposure where all the elements were balanced. I would wait for the water line to move in then recede to get the dynamic streaking in the sand. I was positioned in the tides flow with the camera low to the ground to expand the sense of perspective. The image was processed in Lightroom with final finishing in Photoshop.

I have a few other images from this trip which I will show in later posts. I was hoping for the sun on this trip. I envisioned red light reflected in the oceans surface. But instead nature dealt me a different set of cards. And that my friends is photography. We do not always get what we want. I wanted to fill up CF cards with beautiful sunrises and sunsets and I must admit I stewed around about my misfortunes for a half a day. But on reflection I was given a different kind of gift. I slowed down my pace. I rested, watched a few movies, and ate some great food. I walked along an incredible beach in stormy conditions and in those interstitial spaces of time discovered other patterns. This is my favorite shot from those few days and indeed it was the last shot I took which seems fitting. It represents multiple layers of meaning and symmetry but I had to slow down to see it. I had to give myself a chance to just be in the moment. I think nature gave me a beautiful gift.

Thank you for stopping by today.

Bob

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