Storm Chasers - Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Our second day of shooting started with a sunrise at Emerald Bay. The sun was rising a bit too far south to really include the lower portion of Eagle Creek Falls with the best color. I have a shot I want to post from that morning, but Kendra and I want to post our best shots first and give you each of our takes from the same location, so I decided to post a shot from Friday night's amazing sunset.
We had shot some long exposures using our strong, solid neutral density filters as the storm clouds were racing across the sky. But the park closes at 5pm, and we didn't want to get locked inside the gates, so we wrapped things up at 3pm to move the car up the road and walk back into the park.
As we walked back towards Sand Harbor, a couple signs indicated trails would lead us to some nice vistas. I made the assumption these trails would take us back to Sand Harbor. Nope. Although the vistas were beautiful, they ultimately dead ended in areas up higher than we wanted to shoot.
Once thing about shooting up in the mountains, the sun really sets much earlier than you think. It will drop behind the rim of the Sierra Nevadas and the window of good light seems to last a lot longer than I am used to along the coast.
That being said, I realized our little detours were stealing valuable time from our mission to get to our planned shoot. As some clouds passed over the sun, beams of light starting forming. I got really excited, but anxious at the same time. The second trail we encountered took us down to a beach, more than 1/2 mile from Sand Harbor.
I made the executive decision to stop here and just make due with this little cove. We witnessed one of those beautiful, stormy, sunsets which are both captivating, yet full of challenging light. It actually started snowing on us during the shoot. Better than rain, though. Much better than rain.
Head over to Kendra's shot and read her write-up, well, it's actually my write-up. She is currently asleep on the couch and gave me permission earlier to write her description for her.
Nikon D300
Nikkor 12-24mm @ 14mm
2sec @ f16, ISO 100
Singh-Ray Gold-N-Blue Polarizer
Singh-Ray 3 Stop Reverse GND Filter
Lee .9 Hard GND Filter
Storm Chasers - Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Our second day of shooting started with a sunrise at Emerald Bay. The sun was rising a bit too far south to really include the lower portion of Eagle Creek Falls with the best color. I have a shot I want to post from that morning, but Kendra and I want to post our best shots first and give you each of our takes from the same location, so I decided to post a shot from Friday night's amazing sunset.
We had shot some long exposures using our strong, solid neutral density filters as the storm clouds were racing across the sky. But the park closes at 5pm, and we didn't want to get locked inside the gates, so we wrapped things up at 3pm to move the car up the road and walk back into the park.
As we walked back towards Sand Harbor, a couple signs indicated trails would lead us to some nice vistas. I made the assumption these trails would take us back to Sand Harbor. Nope. Although the vistas were beautiful, they ultimately dead ended in areas up higher than we wanted to shoot.
Once thing about shooting up in the mountains, the sun really sets much earlier than you think. It will drop behind the rim of the Sierra Nevadas and the window of good light seems to last a lot longer than I am used to along the coast.
That being said, I realized our little detours were stealing valuable time from our mission to get to our planned shoot. As some clouds passed over the sun, beams of light starting forming. I got really excited, but anxious at the same time. The second trail we encountered took us down to a beach, more than 1/2 mile from Sand Harbor.
I made the executive decision to stop here and just make due with this little cove. We witnessed one of those beautiful, stormy, sunsets which are both captivating, yet full of challenging light. It actually started snowing on us during the shoot. Better than rain, though. Much better than rain.
Head over to Kendra's shot and read her write-up, well, it's actually my write-up. She is currently asleep on the couch and gave me permission earlier to write her description for her.
Nikon D300
Nikkor 12-24mm @ 14mm
2sec @ f16, ISO 100
Singh-Ray Gold-N-Blue Polarizer
Singh-Ray 3 Stop Reverse GND Filter
Lee .9 Hard GND Filter