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Cliché Friday – Shooting on set

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When you head out to the pumpkin farms this autumn to pick your own gourds, remember not to pass up those prebuilt staging areas for your family photos.  They are everything that cliché friday is about.  Even though thousands of people are going to have that same location in their photos, you’re going to get the best image.  Why?  Because its going to be of your family!  (by the way this dosn’t mean skipping the more “authentic” photo out in the orchard.  We didn’t miss out on this flat bed truck set on our fall outing and it pay out in spades! It is my favorite capture of the day.

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ISO 400 : 16mm : ƒ/5.6 : 1/1600 sec : No tripod

Cliché Friday – Shallow DOF Fall Leaves

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There are all kinds of photographs depicting autumn.  I can guarantee, now that I live in New England, that I will posting many here in the next few months.  Well I thought it would be a great idea to kick off the season with a cliché friday post.  When out shooting I noticed this spiraling leaf pattern that pretty much replicated the golden ratio. I set my aperture to ƒ1.2 to get a super shallow and to accent the compositional foundation.

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ISO 50 : 50mm : ƒ/1.2 : 1/2500 sec : No Tripod

Cliché Friday – The Car shot

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How much more cliché can you get then the car shot?  Hey let’s get even more specific, shall we? How much more cliché can you get then the 3/4 SUV shot in a desolate landscape?  If you don’t have this one in your image library you may just be asking yourself “am I adventurous enough?”  Labor day weekend we decided to take the Land Rover out on to the Flats.  For those not familiar with the Cape, when the tide goes out on the bay side of the lower Cape, it goes out more than a mile in some spots.  Some towns allow you to drive out there if you have the proper over sand permits.  This gave us a little taste of what the Land Rovers sand driving capabilities and let me tell you, they did not disappoint. Once we got out as far as the tide would allow, I had to hop out and grab this iconic picture.

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ISO 100 : 23mm : ƒ/2.8 : 1/1600 sec : polarizing filter : No Tripod

Cliché Friday – Sunset Cape Cod Style

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Another sunset for cliché friday?  Well come on it is the most commonly photographed phenomenon.  I captured this one above Paines Creek.  Since the sun was putting on such an amazing show I decided to break the rule of a strong foreground object.  Also to capture this photo I knowingly ventured deep into a poison ivy patch… bare foot…. again.  The couple of weeks of itching was well worth it, because when I look at this photo I smile rather than scratch.

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ISO 50 : 105mm : 0 ev : ƒ/22 : 1.6s : tripod

Cliché Friday – Mount Rushmore

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I am feeling a little patriotic looking at todays Cliché friday picture.  Obviously, these guys were far from being cliché but, this is the perfect example of a cliché photograph.  I know thousands, if not millions of people have taken this photo from almost the same exact spot.  So Why did I take it?  Well Photos are like snowflakes, no two are ever the same.  No one will ever be able to get the sun and the clouds in the same exact place and shape again, which casts the same subtle god rays down on the likenesses of some of this countries greatest men.  I got it though, and when I look at it, it reminds me of a great day. By the way I live on the East coast but, I have never felt humidityy like the humidity I felt in South Dakota that day.

Cliché Friday – The Lobster Pot

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This Fridays cliché photo is for all the New Englander’s, Cape Codders to be specific.  Anyone who venters to the tip of the Cape and is carrying a camera can not resist at least grabbing a snap shot of the overtly regional neon signs.  Amazing that the Lobster Pots signs can stand out in a colorful town like Provincetown but they do and all of us photographers are drawn to them like moths to a, well, neon sign.

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ISO 200 : 105mm : 0 ev : ƒ/14 : 1/50

Cliché Friday – Stormy Sunset

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Nothing more cliché then a sunset photo, right? Well, when lighting, thunder and hail unleash a lot of people run for cover, I run for my camera.  This storm passed through right before sunset.  We were getting pounded out here on the Cape.  I had already caught the picture I wanted for the day and I didn’t think that I would get a sunset picture on this day.   I was wrong, the storm passed and the sun peeked through the clouds for 5 minutes.   I am glad I stuck around.

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ISO 640 : 1/30 : 16 mm :  ƒ/11 :0 ev

Cliché Friday – Old Faithful

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Its Cliché Friday again!  Here is my version of the Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park.   My first attempt at getting this photo was a bust, the weather of that day was of the thunderstorm flavor, which made it very dramatic walking in the volcanic landscape but,  gave me very little contrast to capture steam and erupting water.  So we had to return the next day, which was as perfect as they get for photography.

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ISO 200 : 33mm : -1.33 ev : ƒ/8 : 1/1250

 

Cliché Friday – Devils Tower

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Another rock formation that every geek in the audience will recognize right away,  the star from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Devils Tower.  This is the actual one not a mash potato model.  As with other Cliché Friday photos, there is not much to say, just that this is my version of a well photographed location.

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ISO 400 : 35mm : 0 ev : f 16 : 1/100

 

 

 

Cliché Friday

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I think this has just become my first themed weekly post!  On Fridays I will post my version of cliché photos.  They may be a photo of a tourist site or even a theme that is commonly used in photography.  As I have said in my previous post on cliché photography (the one of the Goonies Rocks), these are very important photos.  This is my version of the upper falls in Yellowstone National Park, taken at a scenic look out.  Let me tell you why this is an important photo to grab.  Yellowstone is a violently volcanic setting, at any one day it may erupt and that would drastically alter the landscape in this beautiful location.  I would say that would make my cliché image a hell of lot more important.

 

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ISO 100 : 35mm : -1.33 ev : f16 : 1/40