[Music]
[Music]
this is a dry pan known as debt flight
the scattering of camel thorn trees now
harder stone many photographers have
been here and my challenge was of course
to show it in a new way
so I looked for different ways to
juxtapose the trees with the dunes using
a telephoto lens to compress the scene
experimenting with a wide-angle lens
that would create more space now once
the Sun is up the contrast between the
dunes lit by the Morning Sun and the
clay pan still in shade became so great
that I needed to apply a special
graduated neutral density filter to
expose the image properly and as the
sunlight moved across the pan the scene
literally changes by the minute so it
really helps to have an idea in mind
before you go out there and I did I’d
scoped out a particularly interesting
set of trees and then it became a matter
to finesse the details executing the
image in different ways less depth of
field blurs out the background as you
can see here but then I closed my
aperture down all the way I could render
the grasses on the dunes in the
background more crisply by the time I’d
figured out all these technical details
the Sun had almost reached a pan and
this is the magical moment when this
image was published in a geographic even
viral on the internet I think something
like half a million people looked at it
in the course of two days and many of
them wondered whether it was a painting
and others thought it was heavily
altered in Photoshop but it wasn’t it
was purely a matter of being in the
right place at the right time with an
idea in mind now you do need serendipity
from time to time sometimes things just
happen like after I composed this image
subtly these early morning hikers walked
into the scenes and I said thank you
very much
but five minutes later when the stun
started creeping across the pan the
magic is gone because now it no longer
looks quite as surreal as it did in that
earlier image and ten minutes later it
is a totally different scene by the time
the first tourists arrived we were done
you
[Music]
this is a dry pan known as debt flight
the scattering of camel thorn trees now
harder stone many photographers have
been here and my challenge was of course
to show it in a new way
so I looked for different ways to
juxtapose the trees with the dunes using
a telephoto lens to compress the scene
experimenting with a wide-angle lens
that would create more space now once
the Sun is up the contrast between the
dunes lit by the Morning Sun and the
clay pan still in shade became so great
that I needed to apply a special
graduated neutral density filter to
expose the image properly and as the
sunlight moved across the pan the scene
literally changes by the minute so it
really helps to have an idea in mind
before you go out there and I did I’d
scoped out a particularly interesting
set of trees and then it became a matter
to finesse the details executing the
image in different ways less depth of
field blurs out the background as you
can see here but then I closed my
aperture down all the way I could render
the grasses on the dunes in the
background more crisply by the time I’d
figured out all these technical details
the Sun had almost reached a pan and
this is the magical moment when this
image was published in a geographic even
viral on the internet I think something
like half a million people looked at it
in the course of two days and many of
them wondered whether it was a painting
and others thought it was heavily
altered in Photoshop but it wasn’t it
was purely a matter of being in the
right place at the right time with an
idea in mind now you do need serendipity
from time to time sometimes things just
happen like after I composed this image
subtly these early morning hikers walked
into the scenes and I said thank you
very much
but five minutes later when the stun
started creeping across the pan the
magic is gone because now it no longer
looks quite as surreal as it did in that
earlier image and ten minutes later it
is a totally different scene by the time
the first tourists arrived we were done
you
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