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so I'm out here at Lake bukkake the wind
is crazy and we just had the most epic
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sunrise was absolutely gorgeous I'm
gonna talk about how I got the shot what
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I was looking for and what I didn't want
to include
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I'm out here at bukkake lake and the
wind is absolutely ripping this morning
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but the sunrise that I just shot was
just dropping absolutely gorgeous the
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trick is when you're when you're gonna
shoot sunrise in the morning to make
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sure that you know where you want to be
the night before so last night before
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sunset Jane I were driving up and down
the banks of this this lake on both
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sides east and west and also the
southern end trying to find the best
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spot we didn't want to a straight boring
coastline we wanted a nice curve in the
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coastline we wanted trees like the ones
you see behind me these brilliant golden
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trees there are a lot of places where
there is some scrub on the side that was
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pretty dead lookin so we didn't want
that you know so gathering and being
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ready for a morning shoot I mean we got
here before the light came up it was
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pitch dark we had our headlamps on and
you know coming out here we wanted to be
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able to put ourselves in the right place
at the right time and we absolutely
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nailed it this morning that's the clouds
are still a little color back there but
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they were pink and and just gorgeous
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so let's talk a little bit about what i
was thinkin whatever shooting I started
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out with a wide angle lens and and I did
take some shots that were with a longer
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lens but in the end I really felt that
that wide lens gave me the best view I
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wanted to make sure I could see the
curve of the lake really important to me
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but also get as much of the cloud action
into the shot as I could so I went
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really wide I met
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ten millimeter on my my lenses attended
22 on a crop factor camera I also use a
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long exposure I wanted to make sure I
had a thirty second shutter speed I
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actually started out at thirty seconds
and whatever average her I needed to
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keep that thirty second shutter speed I
kept changing my amateur to keep my
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shutter speed the same as the light
changed I think I started out with an
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average of seven my foreground is pretty
far away I don't need clothes hyper
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focal distance I didn't need to worry
about that so I went ahead and I chose
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average of seven and shutter speed of 30
seconds that gave me the smooth surface
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of the lake I didn't want the choppiness
of it and it made those clouds just come
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in you know to capture the movement of
the clouds which is really really cool
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so I got that and then as the light
started to come up as I got brighter and
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brighter I kept that thirty second
shutter speed and I just adjusted my
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aperture a little bit at a time closing
it down each time a little bit more and
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ended up with a temperature of about
sixteen when I got to sixteen I didn't
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want to close it down any more than that
I don't like to go beyond 16 starts to
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get messy so I used a neutral density
filter to keep that shutter speed really
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long and at that point I could mess with
my average again until I got that right
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where I wanted it kept my shutter speed
thirty-seconds throughout my my shooting
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eventually of course that was impossible
and I started to use shorter shutter
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speeds but I'm still trying to keep a
pretty long was down 28 seconds six
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seconds at the end and that point but
shooting because they're really rich
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color in the clouds with pretty much
gone from my point of interest here is
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that curve in the lake and of course the
brilliant cloud cover so those two
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elements working together make this
photo what it is I wanted to make sure I
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didn't include anything in the photo
that would take away from that they're
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dead bushes around I made sure they
weren't gonna be in the frame there's
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sort of a rocky hillsides here lotsa
grasses I don't want that in the frame
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very important to me to keep that out so
I zoomed in
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in when necessary to to take care of
that I also decided not to use of
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vertical composition I tried it a couple
of times and I just felt like I lost the
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expanse of it the wide beautiful this
stuff but I do have a couple of images
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just just in case the magazine calls and
they want a vertical cover right I also
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wanted to make sure that none of these
big trees with blocking my view so I was
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moving back and forth on the hillside I
started out way over there
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set up my shot decided it really wasn't
working for me too much blocking that
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curve in the water I ended up over there
for a little while but there were tons
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of bushes too close to me they're
beautiful color but they're really
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moving in the wind and I think that
would have taken away a little bit from
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the shoreline that I really wanted to
capture so I ended up right back here I
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like to hear I'm high enough that I can
see the lake I get a lot of Lake if I go
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too far down the lake starts to compress
it starts to look smaller than it is the
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height let me capture not only the the
expansive the lake but also the rich
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color in the lake the further you go
downward the closer you get to the water
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the less I'm gonna be able to see that
rich blue alright so this is a shot I
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didn't take take a look around me i've
got the bushes are big they're in the
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way they're kind of dark an overbearing
out in what any of those are my frame
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absolutely not the the trees behind me
are sort of coming up over the edge of
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the lake so they're hiding that
beautiful curve that I was scouting out
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last night don't want those in my shot
lots are rocking is happening here lots
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of wind all of that is gonna affect the
finished image it it takes away from my
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point of interes I want this shot to be
about the curve of the lake the
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brilliant sky and the colors of the
trees and that's it nothing else
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anything else if it's just striking
element gone