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This is a focus stack of eleven images. My camera was roughly 1.5 feet from the ground and around 7 inches from the tufa in the upper left corner of the frame. Initially this was going to be an exposure blend, with a 90 second exposure for the sky blended in with the stacked landscape, but the clouds looked much better in first fast exposure in the stack, so I just went with that. © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY http://www.mikeclasenphotography.com
This is an exposure blend of two images. A 90 second long exposure for the sky, and a faster exposure for the landscape. Captured February 2015 for a photography course project. © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY http://www.mikeclasenphotography.com
This image was captured in the Sierra Nevada in a thick aspen Grove during May 2015 storms that moved over the region. There were fresh bear tracks, and some deer tracks in the wet earth from the recent storms. I was not sure how fresh the bear tracks were, but my eyes were more aware after that ;-). This aspen grove was very thick and it was hard to get an open shot that was not just, a bunch of Aspen. I was lucky to find a clearing in time to capture the 'last light' show, and get a more open view of the peaks in the distance, and some interesting foreground elements. The light gets pretty radiant on the Sierra's when the sun goes down. The alpenglow in the distance was a bonus as clouds were blocking the sun shortly prior, like a show about to start with the curtains down, and all of a sudden the curtains opened up and the show began. This is a focus stack consisting of 5 captures at different focus points. © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY http://www.mikeclasenphotography.com
