I’m a bit of embarrassed to say that that is my first weblog submit since June 2023. What can I say, I’ve had plenty of private stuff and different pursuits take precedence over writing weblog posts. I’ve all the time been a proponent of following your coronary heart and doing what you need at any given time in your dwell, and after recovering from shoulder surgical procedure final summer season, I used to be far more into driving my mountain bike than sitting at my desk writing weblog posts.
Nevertheless, I’ve missed it. I truly love writing, and whereas I’ve been doing different forms of artistic writing throughout the previous 12 months, I’ve missed this common artistic and psychological outlet that has glad an enormous a part of my dwell throughout the previous 15 plus years.
So, I’m again at it at the moment with some model new images. I not too long ago spent three weeks in upstate New York, which kicked off with a day journey to Niagra Falls. I visited this place as soon as earlier than once I was a child, and even then it was a spectacular sight. Think about the identical child 50 years later, however with a digicam.
Strolling round all day, on each the American and Canadian facet, I shot a whole bunch of images the Fujifilm X-T50 physique {that a} good friend loaned me, and three lenses, the 16m f/2.8, 35mm f2 and 70-300mm. I beloved utilizing the X-T50, (right here’s my first look assessment of the X-T50), particularly the devoted “movie simulation dial,” and that trio of lenses was an ideal combo. I usually say that for any journey or pictures outing, so long as you may have extensive, center and lengthy, then you definately’re lined for absolutely anything. No want to hold greater than you want, proper?
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Nevertheless, once you’re at a spot like Niagra Falls with tens of hundreds of different individuals, and you’ve got only a few distinctive vantage factors, and there are already tens of millions of images of the falls, how do you provide you with one thing distinctive, or no less than intriguing to your personal eyes and artistic mind?
That is the place lengthy lenses actually shine. Except for letting you remove all the opposite vacationers and buildings in your images, you may zoom in and compose on particular components of the falls. Considered one of my favourite compositional strategies in pictures is the idea of abbreviation, the place you pick bits and items of the principle topic that counsel the bigger scene. This strategy labored very well right here, and I’m happy with the images I used to be capable of seize.
I additionally loved enjoying round with the completely different movie sims, which additionally provides an excessive amount of distinctive creativity to your photographs. The photograph above was shot with Basic Neg movie sim, whereas this one beneath was ACROS black and white. Total, this can be a very monochromatic scene, however the completely different colour palettes add a slight distinctive high quality to every photograph.
I’m fascinated by the geological side of the of the falls, and of your complete Finger Lakes space, the place we spent most of our trip. When the huge ice sheets that when lined this space retreated about 10,000 years in the past, the left behind a panorama crammed with mountains, steep gorges and quite a few massive lakes, together with the Nice Lakes themselves, which comprise 20% of the world’s recent water, all of which flows over Niagra Falls at a fee of over three thousand tons of water per second.
Residing right here in Alaska, we’ve got glaciers just some miles away from our doorstep, and I discover them as usually as I can with my little Cessna bush airplane. In fact, even with more and more hotter temps yearly, it’s nonetheless going to take a really very long time for all of our glaciers to soften, however after they have completed carving up the panorama up right here, what is going to it seem like? Attention-grabbing issues to ponder…
Some of the memorable side about this present day was taking pictures images of different individuals having fun with their go to to the falls. After watching one couple awkwardly making an attempt to take a selfie, I provided my companies, which started a 15 minute session of me taking pictures portraits of individuals and {couples} with their telephones, some at my very own providing, and some others who watched kind the facet earlier than garnering up the braveness to ask me for his or her flip. It was enjoyable to share my expertise on this method, realizing that theses strangers will go dwelling with an important photograph of themselves in entrance of this superb pure marvel.
Anyway, I hope you take pleasure in these images. Thanks for studying and on your understanding throughout my lengthy absence from the weblog. I promise I gained’t let that a lot time go once more earlier than my subsequent submit.
