Click on the panorama for a larger view of Glacier National Park. Same spot as the time lapse video. Stitched together from 7 pictures using Photoshop.

Week Three

Here are a few sample photos of the week. The rest are on my website. The week started with the studio work shooting the water bottle. Most of Group A traveled again to Garnet Ghost Town on Tuesday morning. The place was packed with photography students from Summer Intensive and an Intermediate class that was on a field trip. The floors move too much for long exposures when so many people are milling about. Not much success on that trip. Light3 on Wednesday was followed by a talk from the Canon rep. I ducked out (Nikon here) and started driving south on 93 to see what was down there. I passed Lolo, Stevensville and Hamilton. I saw this great mountain peak and took off west to find a trail. Put these coordinates, 45.855849, -114.296265, into Google map and you will find Troy Creek Rd. that leads to the Trapper's Peak trailhead. The switchback road climbed 2,000 feet and the climb up the trail was another 800 to 6,879.

Thursday was our longest day so far with computer in the morning, studio in the afternoon and lab from 7-11pm. We created slideshows of our work which were presented on the projector in the lab. Great fun and excellent work by everyone in Group A. Friday was our first Printing/Output class, and we all enjoyed the critiques in Visual Studies that afternoon. We spent the evening outside trying to play with light for our Photo Studies assignment. Now I am doing laundry and processing a week's worth of photos. Have fun viewing.

Studio

We took Light2 today from Joe Lavine, master studio food photographer. Then Group A went into the studio and played with the lighting and scene. We each shot objects that we gathered from our immediate belongings. Here are four pics that are going to be reviewed in class next Monday. Softbox in two positions for the first two and then direct lighting with a honeycomb and one without. I could use a case of this water.

Nine Pipe National Wildlife Refuge Sunset

Four of us, Shad, Janie, Rita and I, took off after class on Saturday and drove up to Nine Pipe for the sunset. We raced the rain and found a great place to view the Mission Mountains. The clouds caught up with us and threatened to wash out the photoshoot. We stuck it out and were rewarded with some interesting pictures. The tail light picture happened about 9:50pm. Two other photographers stopped by to chat and talk about gear while we were there. We learned about some other spots to shoot from the local experts.

Double Rainbow 1/50 sec., f20, ISO200, 18mm


Tail Lights 8 sec., f13, ISO100, 29mm


B/W 6 sec., f22, ISO100, 18mm

Introduction to my thoughts and work

Most of the posts here concern my participation in the Rocky Mountain School of Photography. Currently I am enrolled in the program called Summer Intensive, which covers everything from basic instruction--look through here, see something out there, turn knobs on camera and push button--to training in the correct way to capture something interesting, compelling or dramatic and display it in a way that will allow people to view, contemplate, investigate or purchase my work or enquire about my services.

Ninety other people made the same commitment toward becoming better photographers. Many in the group have the desire to make photography their livelihood or want to find a way to express what they feel or see when interacting with the world. I hope to find an area of photography that allows me to make photographing an everyday part of my life and work.

See school work and other projects here: kjschambers photography