Fly Geyser Aerial View
I love photographing Fly Geyser. This year we decided to build a very tall tripod to get shots from up above. Unfortunately, this tripod was very difficult to use since we had no way to gauge the composition, leveling, exposure, or polarization state from the ground. For example, we found that we had to offset the polarization by a quarter turn in order for it to be correct higher up in the air. It took a lot of raising and lowering the tripod to get it right. However, I was pretty happy with some of the shots we got. For this shot, I used a neutral density filter to get a 5-sec exposure. It took a few attempts since the wind kept blowing in different directions!
To see more images of the geyser, just click here:
www.picturethejourney.com/p358380039
Here's what the mega-tripod looked like:
[flickr.com/gp/dswindler/6R170B]
Fly Geyser Aerial View
I love photographing Fly Geyser. This year we decided to build a very tall tripod to get shots from up above. Unfortunately, this tripod was very difficult to use since we had no way to gauge the composition, leveling, exposure, or polarization state from the ground. For example, we found that we had to offset the polarization by a quarter turn in order for it to be correct higher up in the air. It took a lot of raising and lowering the tripod to get it right. However, I was pretty happy with some of the shots we got. For this shot, I used a neutral density filter to get a 5-sec exposure. It took a few attempts since the wind kept blowing in different directions!
To see more images of the geyser, just click here:
www.picturethejourney.com/p358380039
Here's what the mega-tripod looked like:
[flickr.com/gp/dswindler/6R170B]