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 lots 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 reside, 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.
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 12 months, I’ve missed this common artistic and psychological outlet that has glad an enormous a part of my reside in the course of the previous 15 plus years.
So, I’m again at it at this time with some model new photographs. I just lately 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 digital camera.
Strolling round all day, on each the American and Canadian facet, I shot a whole lot of photographs 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 evaluate 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 pictures outing, so long as you’ve 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, once you’re at a spot like Niagra Falls with tens of hundreds of different folks, 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 at the very least intriguing to your individual eyes and artistic mind?
That is the place lengthy lenses actually shine. Other than letting you eradicate all the opposite vacationers and buildings in your photographs, you possibly can zoom in and compose on particular components of the falls. One among my favourite compositional strategies in pictures is the idea of abbreviation, the place you pick bits and items of the primary topic that recommend the bigger scene. This strategy labored very well right here, and I’m happy with the photographs I used to be in a position to seize.
I additionally loved taking part in round with the totally different movie sims, which additionally provides an excessive amount of distinctive creativity to your photos. The photograph above was shot with Basic Neg movie sim, whereas this one under was ACROS black and white. General, it is a very monochromatic scene, however the totally different coloration palettes add a slight distinctive high quality to every photograph.
I’m fascinated by the geological side of the of the falls, and of the whole Finger Lakes space, the place we spent most of our trip. When the large ice sheets that after coated this space retreated about 10,000 years in the past, the left behind a panorama full of 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 fee of over three thousand tons of water per second.
Residing right here in Alaska, we have now glaciers only a few miles away from our doorstep, and I discover them as typically as I can with my little Cessna bush airplane. After all, 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 once they have completed carving up the panorama up right here, what is going to it appear like? Attention-grabbing issues to ponder…
Some of the memorable side about at the present time was capturing photographs of different folks having fun with their go to to the falls. After watching one couple awkwardly attempting to take a selfie, I supplied my companies, 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 kind the facet earlier than garnering up the braveness to ask me for his or her flip. It was enjoyable to share my abilities on this approach, figuring out that theses strangers will go house with an incredible photograph of themselves in entrance of this superb pure surprise.
Anyway, I hope you take pleasure in these photographs. Thanks for studying and to your understanding throughout my lengthy absence from the weblog. I promise I gained’t let that a lot time cross once more earlier than my subsequent submit.
