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Planning out the third day

Planning out the third day

From the course: Travel Photography: Desert Road Trip

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Planning out the third day

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(SOUND). This is the bad news about landscape photography. If you really are serious about it, you have to get up very, very early. Some people may not think of this as very, very early, but, they're weird. You gotta get up before sunrise, whoa, and we're about to miss our turn here. You gotta get up very early to get the good light, so, it's about 6:30 right now. Now, I know I'm a wimp and we are heading off to Panamint dry lake bed. You can see that the sun is already rising, it's hit the other side of the valley. And so we're going to watch that line come forward and eventually swallow us up in what should be very, very pretty light. there's not much preparation other than I grabbed my camera, and now, we've gotta drive this pretty rutted-out road for about 20 minutes to get to the spot that I want to go to. This is a case where I've been to this spot before, so I know where we're going. If I hadn't been here before, what I would want to do is try to, I probably would have noticed…

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