
Ann & Dan’s Excellent Adventures
Brice Creek - January 2019
This past weekend Ann and I pretty much had to get out and do some photography - we were going stir-crazy. Even if we have been working a lot on images lately, developing images (and the whole import into Capture One thing) is not the same as photographing. It had been way too long since we’d been out to photograph. Thinking about where we could go for a quick excursion led us to one of our usuals - Brice Creek!
Printing the Image - Test Printing from Capture One
It was about time to run prints through the printer again . . . while it sometimes interrupts with other plans, needing to print to keep the printer operational in top efficiency has its advantages - it gets me up off my butt to think about printing. There is something lovely about having a tangible print in your hands that gives a very different feeling to one’s images. And since we’ve been making the effort to become familiar with Capture One, it was time to go through the printing settings and variables with a bit of forethought to see if they all make sense (not totally). So I chose a couple of images to first, develop them from scratch in Capture One, and then to print them.
Shooting the Shooter - Badwater Edition
As you’ve already seen, Ann made some interesting images of me while on our Death Valley trip. And while the previous shooting the shooter showed off Ann’s composition skills for leading the eye, this one takes a very different approach and takes advantage of photography’s technical potential.
Shooting the Shooter - Badwater Edition
As you’ve already seen, Ann made some interesting images of me while on our Death Valley trip. And while the previous shooting the shooter showed off Ann’s composition skills for leading the eye, this one takes a very different approach and takes advantage of photography’s technical potential.
Breaking up is hard to do!
This has been a long time coming, but Ann and I thought it best that we make the announcement to everyone at the same time. Ann and I are breaking up . . . with Lightroom. Lightroom has served us well these past few years, but as I’ll explain below, it was time to call it off and move onward with our lives. It wasn’t an easy decision to make, nor has it come without costs, but we’re convinced it was the right one. We remain friends with Lightroom, but as we move forward in our photographic journey, our organization and image developing tool will be Phase One’s Capture One.
Breaking up is hard to do!
This has been a long time coming, but Ann and I thought it best that we make the announcement to everyone at the same time. Ann and I are breaking up . . . with Lightroom. Lightroom has served us well these past few years, but as I’ll explain below, it was time to call it off and move onward with our lives. It wasn’t an easy decision to make, nor has it come without costs, but we’re convinced it was the right one. We remain friends with Lightroom, but as we move forward in our photographic journey, our organization and image developing tool will be Phase One’s Capture One.
Desert Skies
One of the things that many landscape photographers will tell you they dread the most is clear blue skies. As much as they offer incredible pre-dawn light in certain places (such as the coast, or the desert), clear blue skies are, in a word, boring. Which means the skies are often pretty much framed outside of the picture when they’re totally blue. Landscape photographers will opt, hands-down, for partly cloudy skies.
Desert Skies
One of the things that many landscape photographers will tell you they dread the most is clear blue skies. As much as they offer incredible pre-dawn light in certain places (such as the coast, or the desert), clear blue skies are, in a word, boring. Which means the skies are often pretty much framed outside of the picture when they’re totally blue. Landscape photographers will opt, hands-down, for partly cloudy skies. Many such as myself will even prefer the soft light of overcast skies. And certainly that is why, in part, we go out in adverse weather conditions. It’s not that we like being wet, or cold, or both, it’s that weather gives us amazing conditions of light and clouds. That’s one reason why Ansel Adams’ Clearing Winter Storm is so amazing. Well, the one thing we really didn’t have during our December adventure was plain old blue skies. That meant that the skies above presented some rather incredible photographic opportunities!
Shooting the Shooter - Dunes Edition
Ann and I spent a couple of hours at the Ibex Dunes. As I said in my post of the trip, I had a blast. Ann had less of one given that it was harder for her to avoid the footprints that tracked throughout the dunes than it was for me because of her wider, landscape approach to image making. So she continued to photograph anyway and wound up doing what she often does, which is to start including me in her landscape photographs. Which always leads to the inevitable shooting the shooter question - what in the world was Dan making a photograph of?
Shooting the Shooter - Dunes Edition
Ann and I spent a couple of hours at the Ibex Dunes. As I said in my post of the trip, I had a blast. Ann had less of one given that it was harder for her to avoid the footprints that tracked throughout the dunes than it was for me because of her wider, landscape approach to image making. So she continued to photograph anyway and wound up doing what she often does, which is to start including me in her landscape photographs. Which always leads to the inevitable shooting the shooter question - what in the world was Dan making a photograph of?
Printing the Image - Death Valley
Ann and I spent part of New Year’s day printing photographs. We printed some images for friends, and also were testing a new program we’ve acquired to work on our images. Most importantly, we took the time to work on a couple of images from our recent trip to Death Valley, which leads us to this installment of Printing the Image.
Printing the Image - Death Valley
Ann and I spent part of New Year’s day printing photographs. We printed some images for friends, and also were testing a new program we’ve acquired to work on our images. Most importantly, we took the time to work on a couple of images from our recent trip to Death Valley, which leads us to this installment of Printing the Image.
December 2018 Adventure - Death Valley
The next morning found us up and early driving down 20 Mule Team Canyon Road by moonlight. Given that it was a full moon and the moon was out (unlike when we were driving around in the Alabama Hills), we could actually see where we were going and, more importantly, whether we wanted to make any stops before we hit our GPS pinned photo locations. It was like driving through an alien landscape, simply incredible!
December 2018 Adventure - Death Valley
The next morning found us up and early driving down 20 Mule Team Canyon Road by moonlight. Given that it was a full moon and the moon was out (unlike when we were driving around in the Alabama Hills), we could actually see where we were going and, more importantly, whether we wanted to make any stops before we hit our GPS pinned photo locations. It was like driving through an alien landscape, simply incredible!
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