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Alpenglow at Maroon Bells
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At the end of our fall trip, we made one last stop at Aspen, CO. I had hoped for fall color on the way in, and it looked promising. Next morning, we got to Maroon Bells, and setup with over a hundred of our closest friends. The guys next to me had 2 huge tripods, laptops, cases, the works. After I got talking with them, I saw that they were shooting tethered, technical camera. I've always called those camera a "Digital Back camera", but Technical Camera is the correct term. It had a super old looking, wood, lens mount, with a manual lens, a cable style mechanical shutter release, leather baffles so you can tilt/shift the camera plane, and a digital sensor back that goes where the film would go. Each file were over 500gb! So they shoot it tethered, and store it straight on the laptop.
I rarely have equipment envy, but one peek at the results they were getting, I was blown away. The dynamic range on their camera is so big that they can shoot the same scene that I’m shooting, but don't have to use the 2 stop graduated ND filter that I needed. They were also shooting ISO 3200, 30 sec. exposures, and would have no noise showing up. Very impressive piece of kit.
For this image, I took advantage of the alpenglow lighting up the peaks of Maroon Bells, and used a 2 stop graduated ND filter to bring up the exposure of the foreground a bit. The red glow that you’re seeing on the peaks is from the alpenglow, not from the sunrise. Soon after this shot, the wind came and messed up the lake surface, but I was content with this shot, so I packed up and left even before the sunrise.
Canon 5D Mark III
16-35mm F2.8
Lee Graduated ND filter 2 stop
Alpenglow at Maroon Bells
I finally got a website together with some of my favorite images. Check it out at: www.whosHuLandscape.com
Join me on facebook too: www.facebook.com/whoshuphotography
At the end of our fall trip, we made one last stop at Aspen, CO. I had hoped for fall color on the way in, and it looked promising. Next morning, we got to Maroon Bells, and setup with over a hundred of our closest friends. The guys next to me had 2 huge tripods, laptops, cases, the works. After I got talking with them, I saw that they were shooting tethered, technical camera. I've always called those camera a "Digital Back camera", but Technical Camera is the correct term. It had a super old looking, wood, lens mount, with a manual lens, a cable style mechanical shutter release, leather baffles so you can tilt/shift the camera plane, and a digital sensor back that goes where the film would go. Each file were over 500gb! So they shoot it tethered, and store it straight on the laptop.
I rarely have equipment envy, but one peek at the results they were getting, I was blown away. The dynamic range on their camera is so big that they can shoot the same scene that I’m shooting, but don't have to use the 2 stop graduated ND filter that I needed. They were also shooting ISO 3200, 30 sec. exposures, and would have no noise showing up. Very impressive piece of kit.
For this image, I took advantage of the alpenglow lighting up the peaks of Maroon Bells, and used a 2 stop graduated ND filter to bring up the exposure of the foreground a bit. The red glow that you’re seeing on the peaks is from the alpenglow, not from the sunrise. Soon after this shot, the wind came and messed up the lake surface, but I was content with this shot, so I packed up and left even before the sunrise.
Canon 5D Mark III
16-35mm F2.8
Lee Graduated ND filter 2 stop