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This is an exposure blend from a stand and shoot capture of one bracketed sequence. It is a tad soft, due to high wind and no tripod use (kicking myself in the ass). This is the only capture that I took zoomed in like this. The other three captures were zoomed out, and did not have it compositionally. I was driving during an approaching snow storm on 11-15-15, when I turned my head and saw the storm coming over this mountain range and descending, so I turned off as soon as I could, grabbed a few captures of this scene, then eagerly got in the car to get to my destination. At the bottom right hand corner of the frame are two smaller tufa towers. On the shoreline where the ‘S’ curve is, there are trucks parked there (pretty small to see), and about 15 fishermen are in the water trying to get their catch in the storm. I wasn’t the only one who enjoys being a part of this kind of weather, and I did not notice the fisherman until I opened up this image in PS. I honestly did not think this would be a good capture, but it probably ended up the winner of this outing. This image is NOT for sale in any medium, it is for display purposes only... © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY www.mikeclasenphotography.com
Captured in early Autumn of 2015 for a class project. Ancient fractured tufa spheroids rest on this dry and barren Lake bed, a remnant of ancient Lake Lahontan. The area where I shot this scene was once deep underwater thousands and thousands of years ago. With changes in nature, and most recently mans involvement, this lake has been a dry lake since the 1930's. This is an exposure blend of two 'point and shoot' bracketed exposures (for the sky). © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY www.mikeclasenphotography.com
I could not think of a more fitting name for this other than ‘Tufa Thing’. It kind of looks like it is part of an alien being’s anatomy, your imagination can take over from there.... Maybe a dinosaur turd that exploded like a volcano, and was then fossilized?? Captured early autumn of 2015, and post processed a couple months later. This is a focus stack of 14 captures for the landscape, an exposure blend of two ‘bracketed’ exposures from the stack for the sky, along with a tiny dash of perspective blending at the very bottom of the frame. Print's not available, for personal display only. © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY http://www.mikeclasenphotography.com
