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Last week, I participated in a workshop taught by Eddie Soloway at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. It was an incredibly intense week with early starts (get up at 3am to be at a location for sunrise) and late nights. On the last evening, we got to see images from all 6 workshops that were going on that week and I was highly impressed with the quality of the images.

Out of all the possibilities, I chose to train myself in using only manual metering. I have to say, it will probably pay off very quickly since I need to do so much less editing in front of the computer. Then, there are all those ideas of how to take images, that I feel will take me a while to integrate. My plan of action is to go out and work with one of them , the next time with another. So over time, I hope to eventually have them all in my ‘tool box’.

Here are some images from the week.

I have been working more with the multiple exposures in camera. The 2 images with the daisies intrigued me and the reaction of people to them was very positive. So I took many more images and am learning how the placement of the flowers in Nature impacts the final image. I tried to figure out a way where I could keep the central flower in focus, i.e. not have any camera movement there. I have not yet been able to do that. I may need a fancier ballhead for my tripod to accomplish this.

Here are a few images. Seems like I am working on a series of in camera madalas.

Let me know what you think. I am looking forward to hearing your comments.

As I said in my last blog, I am learning multiple exposures. This is not that easy and I am beginning to think that the 2 great shots were the proverbial beginner’s luck. There is so much that plays into it. If I want just the stippled effect that many exposures over each other give, the number is not playing that big a role, I just need 5 or more.

The images with the flowers are interesting. I rotated the camera while taking the images. I can see why a tripod is important for those kind of shots. It is difficult to hand-hold and keep the same flower exactly in the same place. I will have to figure out how to do this, since I have only about 25 seconds between shots, otherwise the camera turns off the multiple exposure setting.

I figured I try it also without me moving the camera on something that is moving. The effect is interesting. I am posting 2 images for comparison: one a multiple exposure, the other a long exposure.

Please let me know what you think about the images. Is something like this appealing to you? I’ll keep on shooting.

After all the hectic with the Christmas Fairs, I finally had time to go out and take pictures. I got one Christmas wish fulfilled on the 24th with a wonderful day of a snow covered landscape. On the 25th, I got a surprise present in the form of being the first person in Plaza Blanca: no human tracks!

I wish all of you the best for the New Year; plenty and successful photography

Here are some of the images:

Last week, we had 2 days we did not break freezing and a low of 3 and 7 Fahrenheit. Naturally, I went to the creek and here are some of the shots I got.

The night of 9/23 it snowed. Though not planned, when I saw the snow in the morning of the 9/24, I decided to run up to Chama and get some images of the train in the snow. Here are 2:Then, just last Friday, they had a Moonlight Run. I was wondering what kind of images I might get with the low light I would encounter. Here are 3 of them: