Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Intro. In April, 2013, I traveled to Tennessee for a photo shoot in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This was a Joseph Van Os photo tour led by Len Rue, Jr. The trip was a little different than others because:
Compared to the chaos that is Gatlinburg (where we stayed), the Smoky Mountains are an oasis of peace, solitude, and beauty. Patty has often told me that Glacier National Park is her favorite place that we've visited. On this trip, she modified that and now, the Smoky Mountains are her favorite. It is lush with vegetation and (in season) flowers, replete with streams and waterfalls, and blessed with ridges of cloud shrouded mountain peaks. Unlike other U.S. national parks, there is no admission and that, combined with it's close proximity to dense population centers, makes it the most visited national park in the U.S. system. About Photo #33.
So, Andy set up his shot, explaining to me how he picked and placed the elements in the composition and how the movements worked to help increase the depth of field through the image view. After he shot, I put his lens on my camera body, set up on the tripod, and made a few adjustments to the focus and also the shutter speed and made my shot. So, what you see in photo #33 is really Andy's vision, with some minor influence by me. It's such a pretty shot that I thought to include it even though it's not exclusively my work. One of the real advantages of participating in photo tours like this is that you often get to share the experiences and expertise of others in the group, which only goes to improving your own work. Thanks so much, Andy. You can see more of Andy's work here: http://www.LermanPhoto.com Photo info. Click the slideshow icon at left to see the photos from the trip. The following equipment was used:
All images were shot Raw and processed in Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4.4. Additional photo data is provided below each photo in the slideshow. Enjoy the photos! All photos are Copyright © 2013 David W. Boston, Patty Boston, & Cheryl G. Pelavin |
Photo #33 in this web gallery is not solely my
work. Actually, it mostly not my work. We were at a spot along the
Middle Prong Little River late one afternoon and the light was pretty
harsh. Andy, whose work I admire, is really great at creating dynamic
compositions and he offered to give me a little impromptu workshop. The
emphasis was on how to maximize the use of a wide angle lens (rather than just
including everything) to have a dynamic anchor in the foreground that naturally
leads the eye through the rest of the scene. Additionally, you can control
focus, depth-of-field, and the parallax issues that are inherent at wider
angles, through the use of a tilt-shift lens. This is a specialized lens,
which works somewhat like the bellows lenses on view cameras, allowing vertical
and horizontal corrections (called movements) to correct the view through the
lens.