From the course: Travel Photography: Desert Road Trip
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Getting a shot that includes the road
From the course: Travel Photography: Desert Road Trip
Getting a shot that includes the road
So we were driving down this road and it's just a really great dramatic stretch of, of ribbon of highway going off in the distance. And also, to the left of it, there's a big dust cloud forming, it's got this very strong ceiling on it and that's kind of backlit. And so it seemed like a good time to take a picture. Sometimes, it's very difficult to figure out how big things are out here, and the road gives me a good queue in my photo. Now, we pulled over, but this is a highway, we were going on a highway speed. Saw the photo, then pulled over, takes a while to slow down. So actually, where we've stopped is much lower than where I was when I had the initial impulse about the image. We were driving down a very long, sloping hill here. And so, as I frame up my first shot here. And now, I'm using just a regular kind of walk around lens. This is a 24 to 105. I'm shooting at a pretty small aperture of 10 or 11 to be sure that I've got deep depth of field. I'm focusing in kind of close about…
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Looking at the light on day one4m 25s
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Getting a shot that includes the road2m 54s
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Why shoot in places you've shot before?3m 24s
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Shooting in the old mining town of Ballarat3m 27s
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Working a shot with an old truck as a subject3m 43s
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Composing a shot to show texture in Devil's Golf Course7m 11s
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Racing the light to get the last shot of the day4m 26s
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