Its been a while since my last post but there really hasn't been very many things to photograph in Montana. The Forrest Fire Smoke sat over us in the Bitterroot for 2 weeks or so. Like a thick dense fog you could barely see 1/2 a mile a times and 1 hour of air exposure was considered Extremely hazardous. So here are some pictures before the Forrest Fire's started in August!
Images are shot on:Pentax 645z, 35mm f3.5 and Nikon D800, 17-35mm 2.8, 70-200mm 2.8
I packed up my Pentax 645z and headed to Wisdom yesterday. The winds where blowing, but the light was pretty good for the most part. I unfortunately forgot my tripod at home and found myself attempting to slow down my shutter to try and capture the movement of the grass, clouds and water. I found out quickly however, that handholding a Medium Format camera at 1/6th of a second with the mirror locked up, proved to not be the best method.
Here are some images that I took yesterday evening. Its everything from Landscapes to horses to hiking in a burn area.
Equipment used:
-Pentax 645z
-Pentax 35mm f3.5
-Pentax 80-160mm f4
My attempt at a long exposure hand held. Not so easy with a Medium format camera!
And one more attempt at hand holding 1/6th of a sec!
I put a roll of Fuji ISO 400 Slide Film into my Nikon F3 Camera and snapped some shots off the other day. The C41 film was then X-Processed at the Lab and here are some of the results.
Shooting and processing film in this manner is the direct reason why you have all of those fancy filters in your Instagram...difference is, this was the original way to get that contrasty, heavy red/green look.
A couple of the images are in Black and White, which I edited in photoshop, but the rest of the images are pretty true to the scans from my film.
I went to my first Rodeo the other day in hamilton Montana. It was the National Senior Pro Rodeo tour. Over-all I was blown away by the Cowboys and Cowgirls and there tenacity to wrangle the steers, ride the broncos and make insane hair-pin turns around barrels!
Here are some fun pictures of took of the event!
We spent last Sunday Funday exploring Paradise Valley, (Idaho) in a Mule packed with really good food, a cute puppy and some good friends!
Here are a couple of pic's from our fun exploration!
