I’m a little bit embarrassed to say that that is my first weblog put up since June 2023. What can I say, I’ve had loads of private stuff and different pursuits take precedence over writing weblog posts. I’ve at all times 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 time, I used to be far more into using my mountain bike than sitting at my desk writing weblog posts.
Nonetheless, I’ve missed it. I truly love writing, and whereas I’ve been doing different sorts of artistic writing in the course of the previous yr, I’ve missed this common artistic and psychological outlet that has happy an enormous a part of my dwell in the course of the previous 15 plus years.
So, I’m again at it as we speak with some model new pictures. 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 after I was a child, and even then it was a spectacular sight. Think about the identical child 50 years later, however with a digital camera.
Strolling round all day, on each the American and Canadian aspect, I shot lots of of pictures the Fujifilm X-T50 physique {that a} pal 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 evaluation of the X-T50), particularly the devoted “movie simulation dial,” and that trio of lenses was an ideal combo. I typically say that for any journey or images outing, so long as you have got vast, center and lengthy, then you definitely’re coated for absolutely anything. No want to hold greater than you want, proper?
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Nonetheless, while you’re at a spot like Niagra Falls with tens of 1000’s of different individuals, and you’ve got only a few distinctive vantage factors, and there are already thousands and thousands of images of the falls, how do you give you one thing distinctive, or not less than intriguing to your individual eyes and artistic mind?
That is the place lengthy lenses actually shine. Except for letting you eradicate all the opposite vacationers and buildings in your pictures, you may zoom in and compose on particular components of the falls. One among my favourite compositional strategies in images is the idea of abbreviation, the place you pick bits and items of the principle topic that counsel the bigger scene. This method labored rather well right here, and I’m happy with the pictures I used to be capable of seize.
I additionally loved taking part in round with the completely different movie sims, which additionally provides an excessive amount of distinctive creativity to your photos. The picture above was shot with Basic Neg movie sim, whereas this one under was ACROS black and white. Total, it is a very monochromatic scene, however the completely different colour palettes add a slight distinctive high quality to every picture.
I’m fascinated by the geological facet of the of the falls, and of the complete Finger Lakes space, the place we spent most of our trip. When the large ice sheets that when coated 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 contemporary water, all of which flows over Niagra Falls at a price of over three thousand tons of water per second.
Dwelling right here in Alaska, we’ve glaciers just some miles away from our doorstep, and I discover them as typically as I can with my little Cessna bush aircraft. 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 appear to be? Attention-grabbing issues to ponder…
One of the memorable facet about today was capturing pictures of different individuals having fun with their go to to the falls. After watching one couple awkwardly attempting to take a selfie, I supplied my providers, which started a 15 minute session of me capturing portraits of individuals and {couples} with their telephones, some at my very own providing, and some others who watched type the aspect earlier than garnering up the braveness to ask me for his or her flip. It was enjoyable to share my abilities on this means, figuring out that theses strangers will go house with a terrific picture of themselves in entrance of this superb pure surprise.
Anyway, I hope you get pleasure from these pictures. Thanks for studying and in your understanding throughout my lengthy absence from the weblog. I promise I received’t let that a lot time move once more earlier than my subsequent put up.
