Accidental Minimalist + Bonus
We just came back from NE Oregon location scouting Zumwalt Prairie and Enterprise/Joseph area as well.
First photo: BRIGHT sun with a cloudless sky calls for a 10 stop ND to start with. So, according to my App a 1/400 second and a ND1000 would make a shutter speed of 2 minutes 56 seconds.
Guess who can't read the App in BRIGHT sun? That should have been 2.56 seconds.
So, now I have a minimalist photo.
Second photo is the view from the motel parking lot.
Third photo was taken at the southern point of Wallowa Lake. I don't remember seeing Kaleidoscope of Western Tiger Swallowtails Muddling.
3 Comments
That farm sitting there alone...would be nice to own...
2 minutes! LOL! Got it. Nice images! Love the butterfly in flight either coming in for a landing or leaving.
:-) bright sun and almost 3 min... Just from gut feeling, something is missing here: a further nd filter.. but you mde the best out of it. Congrats! Just cut the shrubs at the bottom to achieve more interest/ less visual noise.
#2 the light is just beautiful, adding a wam glow compared to the green.
#3 my favourite: a lot of life inn there. Swallowtails are rare here in EU. They have an interesting behaviour: if they detect another they fly to him directly for attacking. A short battle in the air, and both go their paths. The game will restart sooner or later.... Seeing them together like sown in your photo is not imaginable for me.