One Location, One Lesson, One Lens with Cecil Holmes (ep. 1)
Professional Photographer Cecil Holmes uses the new Tamron 100-400mm lens in Grand Teton National Park.
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Transcript:
Today we're in Rand Teton National Park during one of the quietest times of the year: winter. While some of the roads are closed due to heavy and drifting snow, you still can get access to a wide variety of amazing places. We're here with Cecil Holmes, professional wildlife and landscape photographer from Huntsville, Alabama. After photographing some wildlife, Cecil decided to capture some images on triangle X ranch on a snowy afternoon.
We're staying here at the Triangle X ranch in News Wyoming which is the only operating dude ranch inside of a national park. We're here in winter, it's really cold and not only do we have the advantage of great scenery here, but they also have horses that we could photograph anytime right out our back door and they're great, friendly subjects. In fact when doing these portraits a lot of the horses were so friendly they'd come up real close to you. So one of the features of the 100 to 400 camera lens is really short minimum focusing distance which allowed me to get 5 feet away from the horses and get a really nice intimate portrait with super sharp details. Have to pick your horses here because the darker ones you have to expose for differently than the lighter ones. So I try to go from dark horse to dark horse and then switch over and do light horses all at the same time. So I don't have to make a lot of adjustments on the fly.
We weren't expecting the snow at the end of the day but we were sure happy to get it and we use that to our favor. I was using the lens wide open in most cases to isolate the horse. The lighting was really overcast, heavy overcast lighting, which made for great beautiful even lighting on the horses but I did have to increase my ISO a bit to keep my shutter speed up. At 250th of a second that was enough to freeze any action of the horses moving, but I also use the PC to compensate for any movement I might have had, hand holding the camera. I'll take your picture, easy. See if he knows anybody. You recognize this cat? Brown horse, white stripe.
Hold on boss, hold on boss. Dude, we haven't had dinner. If I can guarantee one thing, it's gonna be cold. When you're planning your trip to the national parks, think about going during the winter months. It'll be a lot quieter, with less crowds and provide you with unique and exciting visual experiences.
21 янв 2018
