This image was made at 9:24 p.m. just as some thick cloud cover was moving in, and also marks the first time that I used my 3-stop SINGH-RAY reverse grad ND filter on a night-time image! The first few images that I made at this location were without the use of any filters, and I just wasn't getting the definition that I wanted along the lower 1/2 of the frame. Everything was just a little too dark, so I decided to try my reverse ND filter. With the use of the filter I got much more definition in the details of the weeds. It also helped to get them to stand out more from the water rather than getting lost in the dark, so to speak.
Another little trick I employed to get the color you see in this image was to experiment with the white balance setting. On auto white balance the colors weren’t coming out the way that I was seeing them, so I started trying different white balance settings. Fluorescent turned out to be the setting that gave me colors closest to what we were actually seeing. Roger Nordstrom was visiting again on this weekend, and as Roger and I were creating images of this piece of shoreline (which is part of Grand Portage National Monument), the soundtrack for our shooting was music from the Bayou Boogie, 1/2 mile down the shore at the casino. As I made this image the performers were doing a rendition of "Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis (which was actually quite good!). I would much rather listen to the music where we were than under the tent. While everybody else was drinkin' and partyin', this image is a sample of what Roger and I were experiencing. I'd much rather be doing this, I must say!
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This looks like flooded trees at first, until I realized A) Grand Portage is not flooded, and B) it's lakeshore reeds instead. Cool image!
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