Bring on the Frosty
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It’s that time of year when morning shoots remind me of eating corn flakes. Crunchy. Frozen ground means lots of mist, and lots of mist means drama. I love this time of year. Bring it on. This trio was shot last week on the Middle Provo during the filming of my instructional DVD on mastering landscape filters. For anyone interested, it will be released in Feb. 2010 by Master Photo Workshops. Happy shooting.
Adam – stunning stuff as always, you have one hell of an eye for making fishing just look so hugely impressive and engaging. Outstanding.
Thanks everyone for the kind words. Making my way up to Sun Valley this afternoon for a shoot up there. Weather is not looking promising, which could mean great, or terrible photos. Fingers crossed…
Adam, care to share the filters you were using? I’m flirting with the idea of getting a Singh Ray Graduated ND 2 stop
Great shots by the way
Hey Mark–
On this particular morning I was using my 3-stop Reverse ND Grad. Definitely handy when shooting into the sun and handling intense “strips” of light like the mountain peaks in the first image.More stellar work Adam.
I have a question for you as well, I don’t think you’ve menioned on the Singh Ray blog. I’m slowly building my SR arsenol and am at the point where my next one will likely be the Vari ND. Can’t decide between the vanilla Vari or the Vari LB warming, in large part due to the B/G and potentially wanting to mount the B/G on it once in very blue moon. The reality is 98% of the time I’d likely just want to add the LB but……….
Any thoughts?
J
Hey John–
Not entirely sure I understood the question. Try me again…More stellar work Adam.
I have a question for you as well, I don’t think you’ve menioned on the Singh Ray blog. I’m slowly building my SR arsenol and am at the point where my next one will likely be the Vari ND. Can’t decide between the vanilla Vari or the Vari LB warming, in large part due to the B/G and potentially wanting to mount the B/G on it once in very blue moon. The reality is 98% of the time I’d likely just want to add the LB but……….
Any thoughts?
J
Sorry Adam I’ll try to clarify.
My next SR acquisition is very likely to be one of the two Variable ND’s. At $500 a pop it’s extremely unlikely I’ll ever have both.
Option 1 is the plain variable which will allow for me to mount any of my CPs.
Option 2 is the Vari ND/LB warming combo.
Logicically Option 1 is the most flexible. It would allow for images with or without a CP..which 99% of the time would be the LB Warming. However that begs the question. If 99 of 100 recorded images are going to be taken with the LB warming mounted, why not go straight to option 2. My understanding from reading various blog entries is that it’s a bit of a pain, aligning both the ND to whichever amount of light reduction you want (say 5 stops), and then having to align the CP.
Hence the Vari ND/LB warming combo. It makes perfect sense to just get it.
But doing so would negate the option of using the Blue Gold CP. I know from our images thats a filter you like to use (like me), but it’s a specialised filter, that one only mounts under certain conditions.
So I guess my question is given you like the B/G on those occassions where it can do something no other filter can. Do you find you mount the B/G on a Vari ND very much….and might it be worth foregoing the mechanical advantage (convenience) of the Vari ND comb which in reality would be the filter combination (Vari ND + LB Warming) used 98% of the time.
Regards,
J
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