Jose Suro
TVWBB All-Star
I RATHER BE LUCKY THAN GOOD!
Hi All,
On my shoot to NC for the fall foliage I got some really nice images but this one is special. I love this image, probably my favorite so far from the ones I've scanned from the NC trip, and it was an accident .
It went this way:
I had finished the shots of the Looking Glass Falls using Ektar negative film, with all that great dynamic range and all. I had the climb out and up to the truck so I figured, why not shoot a Velvia 50 film image since I was already there and had some in my tripod bag. The trick was that I had to wait for the wind to stop moving the beautiful, little yellow tree to the right of the falls so all the leaves in the rest of the image wouldn’t show blurs with the 2-second exposure. I used it as my wind telltale.
So, I waited, and waited, and waited….. It must have been close to five minutes before that little tree stopped moving. When it did I immediately pressed the shutter and made the exposure. I was concentrating on that thing so hard that I didn’t notice that a cloud had blown overhead and now my exposure was about 1.5 stops to the dark. But lo and behold, it is beautifully dark. I cropped it to a 1:1 ratio.
And in case you’re thinking why not bracket exposures, at $15 for a single processed Velvia 4x5 sheet, I try not to .
Better lucky than good is all I have to say…..
Best,
Jose
Hi All,
On my shoot to NC for the fall foliage I got some really nice images but this one is special. I love this image, probably my favorite so far from the ones I've scanned from the NC trip, and it was an accident .
It went this way:
I had finished the shots of the Looking Glass Falls using Ektar negative film, with all that great dynamic range and all. I had the climb out and up to the truck so I figured, why not shoot a Velvia 50 film image since I was already there and had some in my tripod bag. The trick was that I had to wait for the wind to stop moving the beautiful, little yellow tree to the right of the falls so all the leaves in the rest of the image wouldn’t show blurs with the 2-second exposure. I used it as my wind telltale.
So, I waited, and waited, and waited….. It must have been close to five minutes before that little tree stopped moving. When it did I immediately pressed the shutter and made the exposure. I was concentrating on that thing so hard that I didn’t notice that a cloud had blown overhead and now my exposure was about 1.5 stops to the dark. But lo and behold, it is beautifully dark. I cropped it to a 1:1 ratio.
And in case you’re thinking why not bracket exposures, at $15 for a single processed Velvia 4x5 sheet, I try not to .
Better lucky than good is all I have to say…..
Best,
Jose