My Photo Guides

Wheaton & Hollis Hotel Reflection After a rain shower last Sunday night in Bodie State Historic Park, California. #photographyworkshop   #nightphotography   #abandonedplaces   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

This was my last shot before the rain started around 8 pm last Sunday, but the overall night was amazing! Originally shared by Bodie Photo Workshops Arriving Storm It started raining immediately after this shot, and it rained for an hour, but last Sunday ended up being one of the coolest workshop sessions we've had in Bodie.  Can't wait to show you more. #photographyworkshop   #abandonedplaces   #ghosttown   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

A Day in a Wild West Mining Town The California Gold Rush was started by the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848.  In 1959 W. S. Bodey discovered gold east of the Sierra Nevada, and the rest is history.  Fortunately we can explore that history due to local families preserving the town until it became Bodie State Historic Park in 1962.  The town is preserved in a state of "arrested decay", and the interiors of the buildings have been left largely untouched for over 50 years.   We head out there from before dawn, and spend a long day with sunrise, sunset, two golden hours, six hours of access to interiors, and from the time the park closes at 6 pm into the night at 1 am.  It's a marathon, but one full of unique photographic opportunities.   I've created a new blog post outlining a typical schedule: http://activesole.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-photo-workshop-day-and-night-in-bodie.html #ghosttown   #abandonedplaces   #photographyworkshops   Bodie Photo Works...

Exploring an American Ghost Town I received a preview unit of the new LG G4 smartphone last week, just in time for a workshop I was leading last Wednesday in Bodie.  The first photo is an unedited HDR mode photo, the rest went through my usual workflow of making a few minor adjustments in Adobe Lightroom.   These were some of my first photos taken on the phone, so I mainly used Auto and HDR modes.  The HDR mode was critical to eliminating blown out skies and evening out the uneven lighting indoors.   Over the following days I started exploring the option to shoot close-ups, work with RAW file output.  The RAW output offers increases quality when you have time to post-process it, and a matching JPG for when you don't: http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2015/05/18/new-lg-g4-smartphone-review-raw-file-output/ I have 34 samples in my LG G4 album so far, mostly from the afternoon walking around Bodie:  https://plus.google.com/photos/+JeffreySullivan/albums/6150346956545894305 I...

Firehouse Star Trails A 30 minute star trails shot from last year, by the Bodie Firehouse.  I can't wait for our first Bodie workshop of the year, coming up in less than 2 weeks!   #abandonedplaces   #nightphotography   #workshops   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com Bodie Photo Workshops