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Blue-Dusk - Stanley Park -Sea wall - Vancouver,BC
A photo of Siwash Park in the distance along Vancouver's famous sea wall and the pacific ocean..
A photo of Siwash Park in the distance along Vancouver's famous sea wall and the pacific ocean..
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Hi there... This photo was taken on the famous sea wall in Stanley Park,Vancouver,British Columbia. You can see Siwash Tree in the distance..Time
I actually took this photo during dusk, if you can believe it . I love this shot because I captured what I was really after and what I saw before I took the shot, and that was an atmospheric surface kinda shot. I was actually getting ready to pack up my gear and go home, it gets extremely dark in Stanley Park. I was walking along the seawall just hoping to catch something I might've missed, I was looking at the shadows (shadow play)silhouettes created on the rocks and water by the sun, and voila I saw my shot.. The sun was diffused so it really gave an alien look and feel as well,plus there was the fog, fog is wonderful in the right capture...Lighting
Lighting... I would differentiate between camera lighting (Flash etc) and natural lighting... I love playing with natural lighting, in this shot, it was the light from the sun and the position of the sun that created the perfect shadows and atmospheric effect on the rocks and water. You can really play around with natural lighting, to create some awesome naturally occurring effects as demonstrated in this shot...Equipment
Believe it or not, I am still shooting with a Nikon D200, it's a really good camera, and I have some decent lens's and focal length, I used a tripod as well. I have not arrived at the point where my camera doesn't respond to my eye and creativity, the only drawback is the size of the crop sensor, I am hoping for a D800 in the near future..Inspiration
Opportunity! Opportunity is the mother of Inspiration... "Seize the moment" should be every photographer's credo.. Photography captures and freezes your imagination and creativity, you imagine you see an atmospheric looking shot,you take the shot and you now have captured and frozen what your imagination saw before you took the shot. Inspiration in photography, in my photography means to do something that's completely different, breaks and bends all the rules and creates new ones, shooting outside the box in other words...Editing
Yes, I always process through Photoshop,Lightroom, but what I do find sometimes is that when you have a shot like this, you're better off to leave it as original and natural looking as much as possible, which compliments the photo rather than doing a lot of post processing which can be overkill and remove or take away the naturally occurring effects in the photo you were trying to capture..In my camera bag
I only own one camera body, so my D200 is always in my bag. I actually don't own a lot of equipment, I have an 18-200mm VR lens, 18-55mm VR lens, 55-200mm VR lens, 75-300mm telephoto AF, a 35 -80mm lens and a Chinese 400- 800mm lens. I also have a gadget for doing time lapse photography, a standard speed light, and several tripods, a high end camera bag capable of carrying several cameras, lens's etc, it's the best piece of equipment I own, besides my lens's and my Manfrotto ball head tripod..When you don't have a lot of equipment, or even top of the line equipment,you have to rely more on creating and finding opportunity, creativity and your eye...Feedback
Stanley Park is not just a famous park, landmark and tourist attraction, but it provides unending photographic opportunities for photographers, if they take the time to look around their surroundings and are patient, the opportunities will jump out at them lol, like mine did with this shot.. The park has so much diversity to be captured. Besides the 200 year old Red Cedars, California Sequoia's, you have the view out onto the pacific ocean, the diversity of the shoreline along the famous sea wall,and the shadow play you can capture and have fun with on the rocks as the sun goes down and everything changes.. What I recommend is especially for beginner landscape photographers, survey the scene,then as the evening turns to dusk, take notice how the scene completely changes, take special notice of where the sun is casting shadows, naturally occurring silhouettes and capture. In my shot, I immediately noticed the atmospheric effect created by where the sun was positioned and the shadow play it was creating at the same time
