Sunset tree
Jun, 2016Views
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Behind The Lens
Location
Off the road between Cairnes, and Port Douglas AustraliaTime
Sunset in Early October, the week after I covered the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.Lighting
The whole area was a photographers paradise, amazing trees, and beach landscapes. I had been to the Great Barrier coral reef earlier that day, and this was on the drive back to CairnesEquipment
Old School, Hand held Nikkomat probably with my Nikor zoom 23 to 86? with Agfa chrome filmInspiration
What didn't? I pride myself in seeing beauty or art in what others might walk right by, but this was a gift horse!Editing
I only digitized the original slide to a disc, about 14 years ago when the technology wasn't that great, I should send all my old slides in again to have them transferred with the newer technology available, but no enhancement here in post, I'm a believer in taking a great shot and leaving it natural, it has a more organic feel to it, some of these super photo shopped photos that were already great shots, have a fantasy feel to them that isn't very realistic.In my camera bag
I was originally a Nikon guy, and still like their glass, I switched over to Canon for their use of the full frame sensor back in 2002 when Nikon still used a cropped sensor, now I'm moving over to mirror less DSLRs. I like the Sony a7S and the Sony a7R, it was tough because I love the simplicity of the Canon menu, and I'm not crazy about the Sony menu and codecs as well as not very happy about adapting the mounts, but loosing the vibration from a shutter actuating seems to make for very sharp pictures. I really like the way these new Sony camera Sensors feel and handle the light, especially on both extreme ends of the grey scale. Since I am a cinematographer by trade the Sony a7R with 4K video, and 45 megapixels is the best bang for my buck. As a photojournalist when I'm on assignment the Sony is a lot lighter to carry around, I don't think it can take a bump as good as the Canons though. I'm not a big proponent of Zooms but they do come in handy for street photography, but I have a full set of Nikn primes 20 to 300 that I have for more planned out stuff, and landscapes. I do shoot stills with my RED Dragon on occasion, but not as single stills, rather rolling the camera at a desired shutter speed with the right lens and pulling photos from those 6k frames off of a DeVinci Resolve... In the end it's not the camera that makes the great shot, it's the person behind the camera, so give me a Lumix, pin hole camera, or a Brownie and I'll still make some magic! You just need to know the limitations and strengths of your equipment, and use that to your advantage.Feedback
Well this was a definite silhouette situation, which I didn't mind for this shot it's the way I saw it, but I'm positive I had a Polarizing filter and a yellow enhancer on the camera. Eearlier I had been fighting the overwhelming blue light in that part of the world during the mid day, at that moment in time. I never leave home without a polarizing filters that will work for every lens, I love what they do especially on landscapes and seascapes. Well today that same shot with a digital camera is a bit more simple, and you see what you will get right away so keep trying and changing settings until you have something you like. The thing to remember when taking a silhouette shot like this is to expose for the sky, get detail in the clouds and just be careful how much sun bleed you get from the back light. Make sure you have a lot of stop so everything is in focus, even though you loose detail in the tree from it being dark, it's still sharper. The Polarizing filter really helped here, I've been known to use two at a time!
