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“Fire on the Flats” – Salt Creek Flats, Death Valley National Park, CA

 Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Lightroom Workflow, California, Death Valley, Death Valley National Park, Death Valley Photography, Desert, Lightroom, National Parks, Photography Technique, Photography Trips, Reflections, Robert H Clark Photography, Salt Flats, Split Neutral Density Filters, sunset, Water  1 Response »
Jul 222012
 

Fire on the Flats • Salt Creek Flats, Death Valley National Park, CA

Hi everyone and welcome to today’s post. Today I am bringing you a little color and a little intensity. The image was shot on the Salt Creek Flats, a large expansive playa of heat tortured earth. Here in the summer the temperatures can reach well over 115 degrees. The heat leaches the salt and minerals from the soil which leaves the earth with a myriad of patterns, salt circles, ruptured soil, and the occasional pool of water. In the winter, when this shot was made, the temperature is more moderate and in fact very pleasant. Alec John, Travis Bechtel, and I spent several days exploring and shooting in the flats. It is a habit we have to shoot and scout locations multiple times in order to get to know the conditions and find interesting compositions. This was made on the evening of our second visit to this area. We had experienced amazing clouds through out the day and geared up for a potential “special event” for sunset. We were not disappointed. The clouds thinned along the western horizon and cleared the way for the sun to really light up the clouds moving in from the east. A large amorphous dragon-like cloud began to spread out over the playa and I began to look for a location to pick up a nice foreground and some water to capture the intense reflections of t he cloud. I found this beautiful round pool rimmed by puckered soil and a rime of salt. I began to shoot as the color started to happen. The intensity built till it looked as if the entire cloud was on fire. About fifteen minutes later it was all over as the flats entered the twilight zone of darkness.

How I Made the Shot: As a matter of photographic practice I often use a series of graduated split neutral density filters in my work. The filters allow me to balance the exposure in high contrast scenes such as this shot. Here the sky was well over 4 stops brighter than the foreground. So a split would allow me to expose for the foreground and hold back the sky creating a balance exposure. But on this trip I was experimenting without using filters. To capture the full range of light I made bracketed exposures-usually 5 stops but sometime 7, in the following increments: -2/-1/0/+1/+2 or -3/-2/-1/0/+1/+2/+3. In this way I was assured of having the data I needed to make blended exposures in Photoshop. I have found on recent shoots that I prefer this method as I not so intent on fumbling with the filters and instead looking at the light and watching it unfold. I can set the bracket sets on the camera and freely shoot. Back in the digital darkroom I can process the RAW files and bring them into Photoshop for blending. In this case I only needed two RAW files, one for the sky and one for the foreground, to make the final master.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Bob

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Silver Bay – North Shore of Lake Superior, Minnesota

 Lake Superior, Lake Superior Photography, Landscape, Landscape Photography, Minnesota, Nikon D3x, North Shore of Lake Superior, Singh-Ray Filters, Split Neutral Density Filters, sunset  2 Responses »
Aug 202011
 

The Golden Boulder, Silver Bay, North Shore of Lake Superior. Image shot with a Nikon D3x and a Nikkor 17-35mm at 17mm. Image exposed at ISO 100 at f13 for 1/2 of a second. The white balance was 5500K.

Hi everyone and welcome to today’s post. I am in between trips at the moment and have managed to carve out a little time to take a look at some of the images I shot from Lake Superior. Everyone had a great time at the workshop and all the participants took some amazing photographs. During a few scouting trips I managed to get in a little shooting. This shot was taken at a location called Silver Bay. It is a rocky, shoreline that runs almost north to south and affords the opportunity to shoot at sunrise and sunset. there are several small rocky islands out in the lake that make for great backdrops against the shoreline.

On a previous, early morning scouting trip I became fascinated with this orange, lichen-covered boulder. I could only imagine the forces necessary either by glacier or storms that could move this rock. Its orange color was due in some part to geology as well as a generous coating of orange lichen. The boulder stood out in stark contrast to the darker shoreline rocks. Given the sun angles I knew this would be a great shot for late afternoon and sunset. As you can see the light did not disappoint and the boulder lit up in the late evening light. A beautiful band of low-slung clouds moved in from the east and the composition was complete.

I have always enjoyed the many contrasts that nature provides. In fact these are the types of compositions I am drawn to shooting. In this case the huge boulder is so out of place and yet it is not. It represents contrast in the landscape by virtue of its color and seemingly random placement along the shoreline. Compositionally I used the boulder as “mid-foreground” element and a framing device for the distant island. There are some interesting repetitive patterns in this shot as well as the beautiful gold and blue color combination.

Technical Details: The image was shot with a Singh-Ray 3-Stop Hard Edge Split Neutral Density Filter dropped in to a line just above the far island. The camera was set to Matrix-Evaluative Metering Mode with a White Balance of 5500K. Focusing was done manually with the hyper-focus point approximately 2 feet into the composition. This image was shot very wide with a 15mm Rectilinear Lens and did not require a great deal of focusing. At this wide angle the shot was almost in perfect focus anyway. I did some lens correction in Photoshop though to even up any curvature in the horizon. The RAW file was processed in Adobe Lightroom and finished in Adobe Photoshop.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Bob

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