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A single exposure B&W conversion, captured on a nice stormy day at Lake Tahoe. © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY www.mikeclasenphotography.com
This is an older single exposure, captured back in October 2011 with a Canon Rebel T2i and a Canon 17-40mm L Lens. I really liked the combination of the Rebel and the 17-40mm L lens, the images that were produced with this combination, were sharp, and had good detail for the smaller sensor size. I had processed this image back in 2011 horribly, I mean horribly, and have been wanting to redo it for a year or so. As for the name, what could be more fitting? After all, lets not glamorize what went down in that beautiful old weathered outhouse! Another photog friend of mine and I were looking at this image back in 2011, and were wondering what to call it. It started innocent, but soon turned funnier than hell with the names we were coming up with. Autumn Aspen Shithouse had the best ring to it. This area is off of CA State Route 267. I returned in the fall of 2012 again to shoot the old forestry service cabin and outhouse, and there was a tree in the front of the Outhouse that had fallen over, which made for a nice leading line. I returned again in the fall of 2013 to do some more shooting in the Aspen Groves where the old structures sat, and oddly the old outhouse was no longer there, not even the wood, it was just gone. So, this image for me is unique now, not something I, or anybody, can go and capture ever again. © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY www.mikeclasenphotography.com
Captured July of 2015, during one of the best summer storm systems to roll over the Sierra Nevada that I have been able to witness. What you see here was captured on the sloping portion of a steep cliff right off the road. Dare not venture out on the saturated slope too far at all, it would surely be death if one slipped and fell. The cool thing about this storm was, nobody else was up there with a camera, or out in the storm, anywhere! It was wet, it was drizzling rain the whole time, so towels and lens cloths were a must have, along with some very technical rain gear for the camera; a shower cap and a Ziploc bag. This tree seemed to be at one with the storm, a part of it, or conducting it, with it’s branch arms reaching out to the side, and head of branches lowered in the storms direction. This is a single handheld exposure… © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY www.mikeclasenphotography.com
