Award winning photographer, Satish Menon, selling fine-art prints and sharing photography insights with other photography enthusiasts.
Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, California, 2016, 2017.
I have visited the Lake Tahoe area several times. Here are two images of the exact same location, Emerald Bay, shot in 2016 and 2017 respectively. The light is the differentiator.
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Burj Al Arab, Dubai, 2015.
I visited Dubai for a few days and knew before going, that I had to get a shot of the Burj Al Arab. As a photographer, it is never a good idea to drive straight to the building or monument, it’s gate, to make a good photograph. Since I didn’t have several days to revisit Burj Al Arab, to conceive a good composition while on location, I had to do a bit of homework beforehand. Based on quick research, I became aware of a good outdoor mall near Burj Al Arab, the Souk Madinat Jumeirah. My imagination led me to conceive an image of Burj Al Arab, with parts of Souk Madinat Jumeirah as the context. This is the image I ended up making. A good unplanned outcome is the cool blue lighting on the building, contrasting with the warm lighting of the foreground buildings from Souk Madinat Jumeirah. Most travel photographers, like to be free of the burden of a tripod, but given my landscape photography background, I carry a light tripod for such occasions. Using a tripod ensured the high quality and sharpness of this 2 minute exposure.
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Moving Rock, Racetrack Playa, Death Valley NP, CA, USA, 2014.
Death Valley is one of my most favorite national parks. Of the various locations within this park, I love the Racetrack Playa. I have been there twice and this image came about during my second visit. From a paved road, it is a hard 2+ hours of rough unpaved road to get there. A serious workout for your car’s suspension. The rewards are well worth it. As a landscape photographer, although we reached there in the afternoon, I insisted that we wait until the sun sets, so that I can get some cool photographs. The hard part is that once the sun sets, the return journey becomes all the more difficult, given that it turns pitch dark. Along the way, we stopped a few times to enjoy the starry night with no light pollution.
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