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settings Aperture f/3.5 ISO 250 Shutter 1/125 Focal Length 1800/100 

upload_dateSep, 2015

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SuzMDixon
 
SuzMDixon December 29, 2015
This is an amazing shot! I love the point of view!

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Behind The Lens

Location

This photo was taken right off the side of a busy highway, right behind a shopping center. Too often you hear people tell you they would take more photos, but there's nothing to take photos of. Finding a location is important sure, but what if your location doesn't have everything you want? Maybe find a creative angle and create a new vision of it.

Time

This was taken at sunset in the early fall as the leaves were changing. Early fall sunsets in the mountains can create sime interesting colors not jsut in the sky, but all over the scenery. Very much about taking advantage of natural lighting.

Lighting

Sunsets are always fun to shoot, it takes your natural lighting and creates a endless cascade of incredible effects, ever changing. Spring and fall are really my favirote times of year to capture sunsets, mainly because of the colors in the sky and the ground, it creates a beautiful contrast if you shoot it just right.

Equipment

This was taken with my Fujifilm X-T1 with an 18-135 f3.5-5.6 lens. It really is a workhorse. No filters, just me and the camera... and a few batteries just in case.

Inspiration

Sunset is its own inspiration. A natural muse daring you to capture it at its finest. With this photo I wanted to try something a little different though.Everyone is always worried about the far off full backgrounds these beautiful crisp background shots for sunset. I decided to take sunset from a different perspective, laying down. What if the focus was really what was right in front of the lens, and the sunset was just a blown out backdrop? It was a lot of fun taking this shot really.

Editing

I did some minor tweaking in light room afterwords. Brightening it just a touch. Bringing a bit more clarity. I try to be minimal when I tweak my photos, the more I learn about how to work it, the better off I am.

In my camera bag

I have a dozen flashlights for light painting, different lighting at night, a flash, fve extra batteries, camera straps, a monopod, a tripod is part of that kit. The camera and lens of course. But I try to keep the bag farily light, no one wants to go trudging up a mountain with fifty pounds of equipment swinging perilously beneath them.

Feedback

Photography is a labor of love. Capturing images is not about seeing the big picture, it's about capturing a vision, lightning in a bottle. This photo I wandered around a field snapping photos, composing different shots, and it's not easy when your lighting is fleeting. But there is a idea within photography called working a scene. You jsut keep changing and trying to create a special unseen vision of the area until you think you have it. Then you shoot even more. Eventually you will find yourself shooting a certain thing a few times, that's when you begin working towards finding what drew you in. You find ytour subject, compose, and have as much fun as you can with it.

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