I'm afraid my blog has taken a turn to the darkside. Forgive me for running out of titles for blog posts.
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
I'm not going out to do any photography tonight. I feel like I'm starting to run a fever (despite the antibiotics) - I still went to the hospital that was filled with it's germs/viruses/sick people. I did go out and capture these photos last night.
This was the photo I was after when I left the house; the old John Deere in the field. My Dad just started plowing up the field. I am not a huge fan of darkness. It's a fear, I've always been afraid of the dark and generally don't like the darkness. So last night the air was perfectly still and it was a warm 35 degrees. The animals apparently enjoyed the very dark night too. I set up my camera to compose this shot and I had my handy, dandy headlamp on and I looked off into the distance and could see a few pairs of glowing eyes. Boy, I can move if I have to! I hauled that camera and tripod to the car as fast as I could and turned on the car's headlights. Just some baby deer, I was far more afraid of them than they were of me.
Fear of the dark is a fear of the unknown, what we can't see we fear. But, I'm going and shooting in places I know and walk regularly. Places I'm comfortable at and feel safe. I haven't went further than my comfort zones with this night shooting, yet.
I don't like to fail, so I am careful about learning about something so I don't set myself up for failure. I struggle with my fears, of failure. The stars are incredible out here, even to the naked eye. But with processing the images the immensity of the universe is overwhelming. I have to adjust my settings slightly. This was the darkest night so far. The moon illuminates the landscape but it also takes away the beauty of the stars. So, while a moon can give to a dark landscape it can take away from the starscape.
I walked to the side of my parents home and the tree was shadowed against the house; while the smoke from the fire was escaping the chimney. I love this home, it is the home my Grandfather built with the help of his Step-father - it was the home that my Mother was born in. It is my home.
I couldn't get this shot right, with the smoke coming out of the chimney.
A view of the populated Stephens county up on the open range land in between my home and the farm.
I'm in awe of how many stars there are. I feel so incredibly unlearned about our Solar System and our universe.
The farm takes on a different look at night. It was far darker than this - I couldn't see very much out here.
The old 'barn house' was the shot I was looking to take.
This view is illuminated by the outside lights by my Parents' house.
Another shot of the chimney. So, doing night photography is about facing more than one fear of mine, fear of incompetence with photography and fear of the dark. So now I'm waiting on Spring to see what lightning I can capture- since that is one of my biggest fears. I really am terrified of lightning and bad storms, despite my incredible fascination with them.
So I'm not writing much more tonight, because I'm still not feeling well and need to go rest again.
Most of these photos are thirty second exposures, with a lens set at 16mm on a full frame Canon 6D dslr, RAW format, f/2.8 with an ISO of 800. Edited in Adobe Lightroom 5. How to do this? I was out for three hours and came home with 80 exposures.
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