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In Search of a Magazine Cover Photo
In Search of a Magazine Cover Photo Back in June I described on my blog a trip I took where I'd focus on vertical day and night landscapes to enter into Outdoor Photographer magazine's Cover Photo contest: http://activesole.blogspot.com/2011/06/in-search-of-magazine-cover-photo.html Well, my new shots from that trip didn't win, but a star trails shot from a couple of weeks earlier in Yosemite National Park did! I hear it'll be the November cover, which should hit newsstands in a few shot weeks. I should have a cover mock-up to show you shortly. It's going to be Outdoor Photographer's best issue EVER! No, I don't know what will be inside yet, but the cover will rock, so they'd better make the rest good! I wonder if they'd consider not putting that big yellow title over my stars... Update 9/12 : Outdoor Photographer magazine has posted a copy of the October issue with an article on star trail photography: http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/how-to/sh...
Awesome. What a light.
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ReplyDeletewow. have no words. what a momentum.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful picture!
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ReplyDeleteStunning shot Jeff - You are so lucky to shoot such surreal fleeting conditions
ReplyDeleteGreat sun rays.
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone!Johan Klovsjö, The full intensity of the sun reflecting off of white frost is far brighter than the sky! Like standing on sunlit snow, it's not much less bright than looking directly into the sun itself, so in absolute terms, the frost on the grass is actually far too dark (the image simply doesn't have anything brighter than white to represent that eye-burning intensity). Sure, I could artificially edit the sky brighter, perhaps a bit warmer, but that would take viewer focus off the subject of the image, and reduce the viewer's perception of just how bright that foreground really is.
ReplyDeleteJohan, I apologize for not explaining it further up front... that sort of detail tends to come out in several paragraphs I might write to describe a photo on Flickr, but in the few words for a caption here a lot can get lost. I think once I catch up and start to add photos to Google+ one at a time (rather than sets of 500), the detail will be added with the new post.
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ReplyDeleteWonderful image.
ReplyDeleteThe right moment!
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ReplyDeleteFantastic use of a flare.
ReplyDeleteThank you! This image was actually used by National Geographic: http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/national-parks/yosemite-photos/#/yosemite-sunrise_2087_600x450.jpg
ReplyDeleteLove this!!
ReplyDeleteStunning capture of "Bending Rays"
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