jason & cheri weed .::. photographing alaska

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Ever wonder how one gets from the initial image to the final edit? I have. Sometimes I wonder if other people take as long as I do to finally get the image complete in the dark room. Well, here we have an image I took a couple of months back while driving the Denali Highway on the last Alaska Photo Workshop. Now, because I shoot in native RAW and not JPG the image looks a little flat when it comes to colors, brightness and the like. This is...

Gunnysack Creek 07

These Gunnysack Creek images were taken during the last Alaska Photo Workshop on our trip to the Maclaren River Lodge. About a 1/4 to 1/2 mile up the creek from the bridge is a really narrow spot where the water has cut through the rocks making it a pretty cool place to visit. The water rushes pretty quick through this narrow gap and creates quite the scene. Just below this point we measured the waters depth to about 4.5 feet, with a tripod of...

Gunnysack Creek 06

These Gunnysack Creek images were taken during the last Alaska Photo Workshop on our trip to the Maclaren River Lodge. There are also lots of opportunities to stand on the rocks in the middle of the creek and watch the water pass by. This is a 1/10 of a second exposure to blur the water as it flows past. This was tripoded and taken at f/22 with the polarizer.

Gunnysack Creek 05

These Gunnysack Creek images were taken during the last Alaska Photo Workshop on our trip to the Maclaren River Lodge. There are a tone of great rock and cliff formations up this creek which make for wonderful photo ops. This is a huge rock which sticks out 4 – 6 feet and overhangs the casual observer. Once on top you can dangle your feet and watch people pass by beneath.

Gunnysack Creek 04

These Gunnysack Creek images were taken during the last Alaska Photo Workshop on our trip to the Maclaren River Lodge. The problem with adding a polarizer to a wide angle lens is twofold. One, vignetting becomes an issue if your polarizer is to think. Try to purchase one that is thinner so as to avoid this. And Two, when you include much of the sky with a wide angle with polarizer the sky becomes polarized in one spot and usually by the edge...