hi I’m Dan Westergren from National
Geographic Traveler I’m here in Austin
the state capital of Texas and the music
capital of America they’ve got history
parks music of course and great barbecue
I’m here to find and photograph things
that are quintessentially Austin stuff
like the Driskill Hotel behind us this
would make a great photograph but not at
this time of day we’re gonna come back
later as daylight transitions in tonight
when the street really starts to glow
Austin is often billed as the live music
capital of America so we’re going to go
into the Continental Club and listen to
Mel Davis and the Blues specialist it’s
really dark in there I’m gonna have to
set up a couple of strokes and see if we
can use flash to make things a little
bit better let’s go in and listen to
I’ve got two strobes set up I couldn’t
do it with ambient light but I’m afraid
they’ll be moving too much and we’ll get
too slow of each other speakers cameras
set on manual and thirtieth of a second
f8 everything’s fine so we’re here this
morning at Barton Springs in Zilker Park
is this man-made swimming pool right in
the middle of the city we got here right
before sunrise so the beautiful pink
color the sky was reflected in the water
and I underexposed by one stop because I
wanted to make sure that the silhouette
was going to be nice and clean and crisp
I also wanted to have that strong color
but when she lifted up in hands to
adjust her goggles everything came
together and click there was the shot
with one of the best ways to find
interesting photo subjects it’s just to
be friendly and meet people we saw this
guy walk by with a huge beard and he
said you need to come to the beard
contest sponsored by the Austin facial
hair Club so here we are let’s go look
at some crazy beards I love taking
pictures at a place like this because
everybody’s on display they want you to
take their picture after you get a bunch
of standard portraits but then looking
straight into the camera I like to just
go try to get some grab shots some
people call it street photography it
could be a more compelling picture I
needed a great scene setting picture of
Austin so we came here to South Congress
Street to look up the street and take a
picture of the state capitol the biggest
state capitol in America the weather
forecast was for cloudy skies so I knew
that would be a problem we just have
white skies but if we got here early
enough we’d get a beautiful blue sky we
just shot the picture during the
transition from night today all the
streetlights were on it worked out great
and we got this weatherproof picture it
didn’t matter that the Sun didn’t come
out today we got a blue sky and
wonderfully lit Capitol
Geographic Traveler I’m here in Austin
the state capital of Texas and the music
capital of America they’ve got history
parks music of course and great barbecue
I’m here to find and photograph things
that are quintessentially Austin stuff
like the Driskill Hotel behind us this
would make a great photograph but not at
this time of day we’re gonna come back
later as daylight transitions in tonight
when the street really starts to glow
Austin is often billed as the live music
capital of America so we’re going to go
into the Continental Club and listen to
Mel Davis and the Blues specialist it’s
really dark in there I’m gonna have to
set up a couple of strokes and see if we
can use flash to make things a little
bit better let’s go in and listen to
I’ve got two strobes set up I couldn’t
do it with ambient light but I’m afraid
they’ll be moving too much and we’ll get
too slow of each other speakers cameras
set on manual and thirtieth of a second
f8 everything’s fine so we’re here this
morning at Barton Springs in Zilker Park
is this man-made swimming pool right in
the middle of the city we got here right
before sunrise so the beautiful pink
color the sky was reflected in the water
and I underexposed by one stop because I
wanted to make sure that the silhouette
was going to be nice and clean and crisp
I also wanted to have that strong color
but when she lifted up in hands to
adjust her goggles everything came
together and click there was the shot
with one of the best ways to find
interesting photo subjects it’s just to
be friendly and meet people we saw this
guy walk by with a huge beard and he
said you need to come to the beard
contest sponsored by the Austin facial
hair Club so here we are let’s go look
at some crazy beards I love taking
pictures at a place like this because
everybody’s on display they want you to
take their picture after you get a bunch
of standard portraits but then looking
straight into the camera I like to just
go try to get some grab shots some
people call it street photography it
could be a more compelling picture I
needed a great scene setting picture of
Austin so we came here to South Congress
Street to look up the street and take a
picture of the state capitol the biggest
state capitol in America the weather
forecast was for cloudy skies so I knew
that would be a problem we just have
white skies but if we got here early
enough we’d get a beautiful blue sky we
just shot the picture during the
transition from night today all the
streetlights were on it worked out great
and we got this weatherproof picture it
didn’t matter that the Sun didn’t come
out today we got a blue sky and
wonderfully lit Capitol
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