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I'm pretty excited about it starts with
the guy sitting there sitting there in
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the big open mister and this symbolizes
me not knowing quite where to go where I
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stand and what lies ahead it's
interesting when you restart your life
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in some ways that you kind of question
yourself you are you gonna go what's
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next and that's what this picture is
about now in telling that story I don't
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want to do a self-portrait by them to do
something that intrigues me visually
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something that I'm curious about so I
draw from myself my emotional well so to
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speak and I apply that in a cinematic
setting gonna do this by going into some
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memories that I have going up
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always fascinated as European about the
american western movies so we're going
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to tell my story
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the cinematic quality of this guy
standing there with this horse looking
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out to this vast enormous blister now
we've all seen this picture before it's
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done many many times
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symbolizing saw the same thing but
important for me that may apply
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ourselves and I we are at the moment in
our lives to picture making and I think
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it will be more honest because of it so
they're gonna drive from San Francisco
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about six hours across the Sierras and
then looked back towards the west and we
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gonna have our guy looking out in this
massive a massive overview from the top
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of this cliff and I'm really excited
about this beautiful beautiful picture
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so when I create these pictures why when
I have an emotional I want to disqualify
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start finding the story around it and
there's several tools there you can
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start with the landscape and say this is
the place I want to shoot this in and
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then let that dictate how you set the
color palette and light on who the
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person is or you could start with the
person and then let the landscape follow
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it for me this is about big landscape
and a small person in it
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feeling almost lost taken on the
elements taken on a journey so there's a
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story there really that's the approach
for me so I started thinking
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how can I tell this story and we all
have visual references somehow that the
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draw from in particular outfit we can
take pictures I feel of something that
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we haven't read or seen or experienced
they got to be some connection there so
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for me there's two reasons for wanting
to go to this place and tell this story
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this cinematic story from my emotions
and it's knowing that his location is
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there which is extraordinary I've been
driving through it a few times 395 along
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this year is one of my favorite
stretches of land in the us- and then
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this character as I mentioned the movies
that kind of style so I started this and
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some things start to flourish i just
want to see pictures in my mind so
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that's how I come to those other visual
tools I used to get the story started
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but then divorce right what does this
guy look like boys they closed like what
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is the color of what is the feeling now
a story like this for me it's not happy
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or bright or is not a guy running
through the landscape is not sporty it's
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it's a quiet contemplative moment so we
gotta find that describe that within the
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color now then you wanna take these
pictures you ask yourself as well right
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what is quite for you is it cool in the
paula is it warm in the pilot what is
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that emotion and for me it's gonna sit
in the light quality that's right before
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or right after sunrise or sunset really
really soft like maybe see the Sun
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hitting the top of the mountains in the
background as if the Sun is starting a
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new day starting and i dont some mood
boards here is some of them I warmer
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some of them are cooler but I think the
palate and this does it towards the
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muted tones in the cooler cooler Browns
I know that sounds like an opposite but
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there say almost pinkish bluish tongue
to that like quality that gonna try to
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capture so when you wanna create
something that's personal to you
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you also know that the emotional time
when it comes to the color tonality and
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the light and for me when you have this
big open landscape I want low reading
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light to it
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ask yourself what colors and if you want
to describe the moment that's happy and
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bright then you should sign a sprite but
for this contemplative moment walking
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into the unknown you want something
that's needed something that's quieter
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and more contemplative for sure to face
to do this before the Sun comes up we
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talked about that in practice it's very
blue light quality or we can do it right
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as the Sun at the top of the mountains
in the background will create little
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warmth and maybe that's something we
embrace I mean Western every color
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palette of the better movies is brown
and dusty and it's something that I'm
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sure everyone I think about this comes
with that warmer so that on some of
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these references I have here
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Clint Eastwood all warm the color
leather the horses landscape is old
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dusty and warm now I want to take this
more muted by as in blue there's an
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amazing amazing references here this is
a picture of mind this is some facebook
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pictures of friends then this other
imagery that I'm really really found out
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that I think speaks this emotion so I'm
trying to find references right that can
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help me find the time from this I start
with how I feel about it and then try to
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find visual references that speak to it
so we gonna get up early in the morning
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come up on this bluff and they gonna
shoot this I think throughout you know
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sometimes we have some images as Blue
Earth MN just as warmer and then we
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could take a look at those after it
posted the kids shoes which one may want
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to use I always like to have any tension
before I take the picture but also
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follow the light of its it's not just
one thing but there's some options there
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are messages from me getting to post so
having an idea having a vision for what
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kind of picture and emotion you want to
create a new follow the steps I just
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mentioned the hard disk space