14 Friday Jun 2013
There was something new in the way I photographed Second Beach this last time which was different fro previous times. Many photographs are very minimalistic with vast open spaces of sky and ocean. I’m wondering if that an influence of Michael Kenna’s and John Paul Caponigro’s work.
11 Tuesday Jun 2013
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Photograph, Tree, Landscape, Sky, Sunset, Cloud, Beach, Rock, Color, Water, Blue, Twilight, Wave, Surf, Second, Sea, Stack, Black, Magenta, Photo
It is amazing how many different photos can be made in the same spot and of the same subject. Look at this photos for example. The same sea stack at Second Beach, just different atmospheric conditions, different light and different exposure.
And here is a couple of photos with a different angle:
Yet one more angle:
More photos of this place from my earlier trips can be found on my website: http:///www.vitphoto.com/?folio=Olympic.
07 Friday Jun 2013
Patience is a virtue for landscape photographer. Waiting for the right weather, for the right light takes indefinite amount of time.
In Olympics when it rains it pours. But it can stop as suddenly as it starts. This is my favorite time to photograph as I get great cloudy sky. All I need is a bit of patience.
On my second day of the last trip to Olympic Peninsula I woke up to a pouring rain. Well, what could I do about that? Nothing, really nothing. What I can do is to read a book or a magazine. And that’s what I did. I was sitting in a car in a pouring rain reading thru a recent issue of Lenswork. Once I was done with it I moved onto a photography book.
By the noon the rain stopped. I got out of the car put on my backpack and headed to Second Beach. I was rewarded with great skies. Just the kind I like.
04 Tuesday Jun 2013
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Branch, Creek, Forest, Grass, Green, Greenery, Landscape, Leaf, Log, Olympic, Photo, Photograph, Road, Rock, Spring, Stream, Track, Tree, Water, White
Photographing the same place again and again is like visiting an old friend.
A couple of weekends ago I went to Olympic Coast for 3 day photographic trip. I decided to start this year with visiting my old friend: Second Beach. By far it is my favorite beach for photography. There are so many different opportunities there.
While driving there I noticed something else that caught my eye: an amazingly saturated greenery of fresh spring leaves. It was amazing. The result was that I spent most of the day time during those three days in a forest.
Now let me welcome you to Olympic Peninsular forest in spring.
18 Thursday Apr 2013
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Arboretum, Branch, Grass, Landscape, Light, Moss, Nature, Park, Photo, Photograph, Ray, Rim, Seattle, Sun, Table, Tree
Can light be a subject of a photograph? I’m absolutely sure of it. More than that, light is often the main subject of my photographs.
A week ago I was walking in Seattle Arboretum looking for spring blossom. I made a few photos but nothing was clicking. I was ready to give up and headed back to my car, when I saw this light. Actually several kinds of light in one scene: rim light on tree branches, and sunrays breaking thru the branches forming a waterfall of light.
15 Monday Apr 2013
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Bench, Blossom, Blue, Branch, Brick, Building, Cherry, Color, Flower, Grass, Green, Lamp, Lawn, Light, Red, Sky, Sunrise, Tree, White
Finally, I’m done with processing my photos from my winter trip to Canadian Rockies. And all of a sudden spring arrived to Seattle. This means it is time for photographing cherry blossom. One of the most popular places for cherry blossom in Seattle is UW Quad. During weekend of nice weather the place is packed.
I typically go there early in the morning, somewhere around 6am. It is more deserted and with street lights it looks more interesting.
I noticed though that with each year more and more photographers come early too. On Saturday there were 20 photographers, on Sunday – 30. With tripods standing, bags lying on the ground and photographers walking around it becomes quite a challenge to have a clean photo. Well, it seems coming even earlier and on workday, I still can have the place to myself.
11 Thursday Apr 2013
Posted in Canadian Rockies, Close up, Color, Photo, Waterfall
10 Wednesday Apr 2013
Posted in Canadian Rockies, Color, Landscape, Photo, Sunset
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Blue, Canada, Cloud, Color, Green, Illuminati, Landscape, Mountain, Photo, Photograph, Pink, Rocky, Sky, Snow, Sunset, Tree, Winter
I’m a perfectionist in everything I do. And I’m twice perfectionist in photography. In the field I keep taking photo over and over changing my position, perfecting composition, and changing settings perfecting my exposure. In post I can spend endless hours on a single photo perfecting every pixel of it to tell a clear story with my photo.
This was the case with this photo. It looked like illuminati sign for me. The problem was that pink spot in the sky was too weak. I wanted to make it clearly visible. Except I could not get it too stand out more without color shift and without impact on surrounding clouds. I’ve spend many many hours on it, printed proof after proof all of them going to garbage.
Finally, I think I got it. One thing is that it is unlikely you’ll be able to appreciate it since it pushes the limits of what uncalibrated regular monitor can show. That’s the problem with subtle color variations. Even on my laptop where I type this post I cannot see pink in the sky. I can see it on wide gamut calibrated monitor that I use for photo editing and on prints that I produce.
Illuminati
09 Tuesday Apr 2013
Posted in Canadian Rockies, Close up, Color, Landscape, Photo
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Blue, Canada, Close, Cloud, Curve, Foot, Landscape, Light, Mountain, Photo, Photograph, Rocky, Shadow, Sky, Snow, Step, Tree, White
What can be simpler than a single curve in snow. It is like an artist calligrapher drew a hieroglyph with a single movement of hand.
What’s interesting is that I found the same curve in a track of foot steps that a fellow photographer left behind.
08 Monday Apr 2013
Posted in Canadian Rockies, Close up, Color, Landscape, Photo
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Bubble, Close, Cloud, Color, Ice, Lake, Landscape, Moutain, Photo, Photograph, Sky, Snow, Sunrise
The main attraction of the lake by the small town of Nordegg is bubbles caught in the ice. As the lake freezes bubbles of air float up from the bottom of the lake to the surface where they are captured and then enveloped by ice. Those frozen bubbles form amazing surreal three-dimensional structures.
