From the course: Travel Photography: Desert Road Trip
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Looking at the light on day one
From the course: Travel Photography: Desert Road Trip
Looking at the light on day one
So if you step off the road just about anywhere in this whole park, you've got these little creosote bushes everywhere, and it's the middle of the day. The light's pretty drab. It's really hazy over there, so it's not a great time for big landscape shooting. But I've got so many of these things, it's silly not to try to look at them as potential subject matter. So I've just been wandering around out here. And the first thing that strikes me is, because it's still winter, the sun's still kind of low. So even here, it's coming on 10:30. We're still getting a nice, good, strong shadow off of them. And it's kind of cool, because I get this sort of symmetrical thing. If I'm shooting into the light, the bush itself becomes more of a silhouette. And, and so there's kind of this axis across the middle that's interesting, the shadow versus the bush itself. that said, right here, this one I'm looking at, the ground's kind of rocky and it, it drops off right here, so the edge of my shadow here…
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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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