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Earth Shadow Glow - East Shore Lake Tahoe
I was feeling a little claustrophobic the other day, and had to get out of the house and into the mountains. I drove up to Sand Harbor State Park, but the there was a huge group of snapshotters lining up to fire away at Bonsai Rock. I walked down the shore to get away from those other humans and the sound of their DSLR's whacking away 5 shot HDR exposure brackets. I decided to work on a composition I've been thinking about. I was not optimistic about the prospects since we had blue-bird skies and a fresh wind had blown out most of the atmospheric particulates over the previous few days. Indeed, the actual sunset was very lackluster, but as I've learned, sometimes you've got to wait a little longer. The group of photographers left, huffing up the steep slopes above Tahoe's East Shore. After the racket of their exit quieted down, it was time to stretch out on a large smooth boulder that was giving back the warmth it had borrowed from the sun all day. I was blessed with peace, quiet, and, surprisingly, the surreal light of Northern Sierras.
John Muir wrote in The Yosemite (1912) "... it seemed to me that the Sierra should be called, not the Nevada or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light. And after ten years of wandering and wondering in the heart of it, rejoicing in its glorious floods of light, the white beams of the morning streaming through the passes, the noonday radiance on the crystal rocks, the flush of the alpenglow, and the irised spray of countless waterfalls, it still seems above all others the Range of Light."
One of the reasons I chose the Fuji XE2 was because it doesn't have an aliasing filter and reviews have given it high marks for long exposure, two things important to me for landscape photography. This was with a Nikon 28mm 2.8 AIS via adapter. This is the sharpest and widest lens I currently have that will work on this camera. Processed in LR5 and NIK plugins. The raw file turned out very different than the in camera JPEG set to Velvia. There is a lot more detail here and the colors are much closer to what was in my mind when I shot it.
Earth Shadow Glow - East Shore Lake Tahoe
I was feeling a little claustrophobic the other day, and had to get out of the house and into the mountains. I drove up to Sand Harbor State Park, but the there was a huge group of snapshotters lining up to fire away at Bonsai Rock. I walked down the shore to get away from those other humans and the sound of their DSLR's whacking away 5 shot HDR exposure brackets. I decided to work on a composition I've been thinking about. I was not optimistic about the prospects since we had blue-bird skies and a fresh wind had blown out most of the atmospheric particulates over the previous few days. Indeed, the actual sunset was very lackluster, but as I've learned, sometimes you've got to wait a little longer. The group of photographers left, huffing up the steep slopes above Tahoe's East Shore. After the racket of their exit quieted down, it was time to stretch out on a large smooth boulder that was giving back the warmth it had borrowed from the sun all day. I was blessed with peace, quiet, and, surprisingly, the surreal light of Northern Sierras.
John Muir wrote in The Yosemite (1912) "... it seemed to me that the Sierra should be called, not the Nevada or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light. And after ten years of wandering and wondering in the heart of it, rejoicing in its glorious floods of light, the white beams of the morning streaming through the passes, the noonday radiance on the crystal rocks, the flush of the alpenglow, and the irised spray of countless waterfalls, it still seems above all others the Range of Light."
One of the reasons I chose the Fuji XE2 was because it doesn't have an aliasing filter and reviews have given it high marks for long exposure, two things important to me for landscape photography. This was with a Nikon 28mm 2.8 AIS via adapter. This is the sharpest and widest lens I currently have that will work on this camera. Processed in LR5 and NIK plugins. The raw file turned out very different than the in camera JPEG set to Velvia. There is a lot more detail here and the colors are much closer to what was in my mind when I shot it.