Monday, January 28, 2008
Storms come to SoCal.......
Yesterday i was in Encinitas shooting an event for a local magazine, i was incredibly exhausted since i had not been sleeping well and was running on a few hours of sleep for two days. After my shoot i decided that it was time to go home and get some much needed rest, i love to drive the coast so i took Coast Highway. It had poured the night before and there were puddles everywhere, as im driving i glanced over at the ocean and there they were HUGE storm clouds!!! Well i got really excited and all of a sudden my exhaustion seemed to disappear, the wind was howling, trees bent to one side. Everything looked just dark and gloomy.....i knew exactly where i needed to be. A while back i had shot a photo of the coastline with part of this cool looking tree in the foreground, the tree is dead so it never grows leaves........but its bare branches i knew would make a cool silhouette against the ominous storm front. So i made a u turn as quick a i could and doubled back to find the tree, there at last i grabbed my gear, opened the door and was almost knocked over the wind was so strong. I had an incredible time so much so that i forgot to call my wife and tell her i had stopped.....she was worried sick but was gracious to me when i got home. I got the lensbaby out for this one too, and will report that im more pleased with the results this time around. Anywho, heres some photos. Enjoy!!
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2 comments:
Gorgeous work. Reminds me of my brother's most inspired landscape paintings, only moreso...
I wonder if these are raw images right out of the camera, or do you work with Photoshop?
As an animator / artist, I have come to accept that a photograph can be a starting point. (I mean I don't think it's a sin to mess with Mother Nature.)
I'll be coming around to look some more.
mad fiddler,
thank you for your comment and questions.
to answer you question, no these are not straight out of the camera. With my Nature/Landscape work i really try not to use Photoshop in order to enhance them. The dark images of the tree and some of the lensbaby photos are the exception. With those i felt that they needed a little bit more than what i had captured so i added some filters in PS. For the most part though i just convert them from the RAW format into jpg's using Nikon Capture NX and add some contrast and saturation bumps. I work hard to try and capture as much detail as possible when i 1st shoot the image.
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