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Tree On The HillNikon D800e With 80-400mm lens 
Seeing it Is The First Part
After working a good part of the day on Luminous-Landscape business, Michael Reichmann  and I decided we would reward ourselves with a photo excursion. So we drove some back roads near Cremore, Ontario and as we were driving down this remote dirt road we both spotted this far off tree on a hill.  We imediately both saw the potential and pulled the car over. Both of us got our tripods and cameras out and we worked the location.  As I was shooting I saw the shot as a vertical with the tree perfectly centered and the clouds being the main subject. I bracketed the shots with 5 expsoures with a stop difference between each. I wanted to make sure I had an exposure with the clouds not being blown out. I already knew how I would achieve the image I wanted. I knew this image was going to be made in post processing. Capturing it was only part of it.  Let me show you how I made the image above.
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Photography is my passion and has been for 45 plus years. My career in photography has allowed me to travel the world, meet some of the most interesting people on the planet and see things I could never have dreamed of. My goal is to share the passion of pictures taking through photographs and teaching with as many people as I can hoping it brings them as much joy and happiness as it has me. I do this through Rockhopper Workshops and other projects as well as teaching at my Gallery in Indianapolis.
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