john michael white
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Zach,
Go to Teton Mountaineering one block north of town square (closest to airport if heading into Jackson). You might also try Dornan’s in Moose, WY (take a right before you cross the Snake River Bridge if you were heading into GTNP) if you’re heading on to Yellowstone.
Good points and encouragement Kendal.
I’m not afraid to try, and have been focussing on this for the last year or so, with both photography and writing. It just seems to be hard going.
I have had some encouraging email responses to a few submissions (which are like gold to me so far), and my first published writing piece in Far & Away Online Jan/Feb 2009. I am very thankful to Roger and the guys at Far and Away Online for the help and encouragement he has given me, as well as the community of gifted folks I have met here on Itinerant Angler.
As far as trying to get published in print magazines with a large subscriber base, it seems that at least half of the time I never recieve any feedback from submissions (which takes lots of time and can be frustrating). And, honestly, it is hard to make time when it is not what you do for a living.
But,…… I am a firm believer that excellence will be rewarded – so I will keep trying and learning, soaking everything up like a sponge 🙂 When I reach the level that my work turns heads, I am sure the rest will follow.
Congrats Kendall and Shannon!
The thing that seems difficult to me about trying to get something published, is how do I write a piece that goes with my images, when most everything has been written about in every conceivable way already? I don’t believe I know any earth shattering new fangled tip to write how to’s about, and it seems that for straight up fishing adventure articles, you have to have a young, edgy/ bum perspective these days….and that just isn’t me 😀
As John said, what I know best are my experiences. Unfortunately, I am limited on travel at this point in life, and don’t live in the middle of beautiful western trout rivers, mountains, etc. I used to be able to travel more, but not as much now. Yet, writing and photography really interest me and I would like to learn them well enough to have work published.
So I keep trying to think outside the box – how can I do something different….draw a blank ::), think some more…
Hmm, Maybe I don’t need to be concerned with the flare? I like the sunburst in image #1 a lot, I just thought the outer ring of flare was distracting, and even the smaller purplish flares in the other images might be a little distracting? I guess I’ve just never experienced it to that degree.
It also appears that the halo flare only happens when the sun is very low in the sky and dead center in the frame.
Thanks for the input Chad, David, and Morsie.
I just recently got my first wide angle(Canon EF-S 10-22mm) and have been playing around with it in short increments.
I have been doing different things with it and one of them is practicing these into the sun shots. I opted for “winging it” and not looking through the viewfinder ;D Anyways, I have found that when shooting straight on into the sun, I get a lot of lens flare and am wondering what I can do about that? It seems like if I use the 10mm-12mm setting, I get flare, and if I use 14mm – 22mm I don’t. Also, I don’t think a lens hood would be any help, as these shots are directly into the sun?
Here are a few test shots. Nothing fancy, didn’t care about composition, just trying to work on exposure and lighting and flare:
Ist 3 images are at 10mm
The image below is at 14mm (others out to 22mm didn’t have any flare today):
Yesterday, I was getting some very harsh lens flare like the full halo in image #1. This is what I am primarily curious about and trying to avoid or see if I can correct it in post processing somehow?
Nice shots Abe. I especially like #1 and #6. Just as a suggestion, you might try increasing the contrast/saturation on #1 and see if you like it or not. I love the detail you captured on the dragonfly. I think you would definitely benefit from a SLR.
I use the X Rite Eye One Display 2 and have been real happy with it. Once you do it a couple of times, it is really simple to do the advanced calibration fairly quickly. Other than just uploading your monitor profile from the calibration software into your photo processing software (and keeping this current), make sure the color work space matches in both camera and processing software… i.e. if you’re shooting in Adobe RGB in camera, make sure working colorspace in processing software is set to Adobe RGB.
As Doug mentioned, you can do this process on multiple computers, so the process is the same….you’re just “setting” each one to the same “standard”.
http://www.drycreekphoto.com/
Check out the far right column on color managementO.k. I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and it’s probably a stupid question, but….
A lot of the into the sun shots I’ve seen posted or done, actually have the sun itself behind some object (tree, cloud, structure, out of frame). But how are you guys shooting when you actualy keep the sun itself in the frame?
The reason I bring this up is because in the manuals for the camera and lenses, it says to not look directly at the sun through the lens OR viewfinder. The only shot I have done like this, was with a dark red filter shooting B&W film (my avatar pic), and therefore it was not hard on the eyes to look through the viewfinder and compose the shot. The sun was also very low on the horizon just before sunset, so it’s strength was not too harsh I suspect.
So, what about the shots I see where it is midday and the full on harsh blazing sun is in the image? Do you guys just hold the camera and not look through the viewfinder and “wing it”, or do you still look through the viewfinder? If looking through the viewfinder, couldn’t this harm your eyes?
One thing I thought of was maybe using a ND filter (or two) with a polarizer to essentialy darken the light coming to the camera enough that it is not a problem to look at, kind of like sunglasses for the camera).
Great post and pics guys.
Cameron – Way to rock the pimento cheese sandwich. I am starving here at work and have been looking forward to going home and previously planned to grab a pimento cheese sandwich as a snack. Then I see this post, and now I am even more hungry!!!
