Oh, hi! So another day in Oregon, and I'm trying to hit all my favorite spots, and this is one of them
This is Wasco County. This is you can say the desert pretty much. I think it's called the high desert actually
I just got here, so I'm gonna start taking photos here, but
It's already noon because I've been pretty busy today. This morning... let me
go in the car because it's windy
So for those who don't know and this is a pretty cool about Oregon. This is why I love this place
I'm gonna put a map of the state here
so first you have the coast and of course that means a lot of jetties and lighthouses and
What else?
beaches and dunes
all that kind of stuff that you can find at the coast
Then you hit the mountains the Cascade Mountains and that means snowy peaks, and you have
ski resorts, and you have hikes there
and you have... you can go snowshoeing you can do all the stuff that you can do in the mountains, and then after the
mountains you have this vast, the rest of the state is this vast desert
It's called the high desert because I think that most of it is at four or five thousand feet
There are plenty of things here like you have the Painted Hills you have the John Day area, and you have
the Wallowas, you have all these I love this part of the the desert, the Wasco County, you have farther south you have the
Steens. I love Eastern Oregon is one of my favorite places ever
But my point was that the fact that the mountains are so close to the ocean that gives you a lot of different
Landscapes here within like 300 miles you have all those all those landscapes yesterday was at the coast this morning
I was at the
That region that I said is waterfalls and green. And now I'm at the desert so I am able to
Come to all these places just
Driving a few hours, and that is pretty awesome, so now I'm gonna play some footage and gonna show you the photos
I took this morning hoping that they turned out. I went to the Vista house
I went to the Multnomah Falls
And I went to Rowena Crest all of them are pretty popular spots in the gorge, so let's go
I think I talked about this yesterday, but I'm gonna say it again, just in case.
I'm using an orange filter here now as you can see
To capture this scene that you can see there a tiny part of it is because I want to add some contrast
But that's not the point here so this camera and I believe that most of these type of cameras the medium format
SLR
Cameras they can only go to one five hundredth of a second that means that you have to use smaller apertures like on a day
Like today that is pretty bright like f/11
f/16, something like that. But what I wanted to do here is to capture this field here as the foreground
But I wanted it out of focus and the only way to do that for me right now is to shoot it at
f/5.6 or even f/4
But in order to do that I need to put something in front of the lens because it's just too bright to shoot at those
Apertures when I only have one
1/500 of a second. So I could use an ND filter, but the weaker one that I have is six stops
That's too much for this case so I'm just using the orange filter because that means that I have to overexpose by two stops
So instead of shooting this scene at f/11 and getting part of the field in focus
I'm shooting it at f/5.6 and it's gonna be very nice and out of focus in the immediate foreground
And you might be wondering why I want to have the foreground out of focus well in these cases because the...
Oh, is that Google Maps?
now it's just a dude with a stick in the back
A lot of traffic now. So the reason why I put the foreground out of focus is because for me in my opinion
That works very well with these kind of photos where you don't have a clear leading line or anything
So it serves as a leading...
gradient, because it goes from completely out of focus
ideally, that's not gonna be completely out of focus, just a little bit
from out of focus, to more in focus, more in focus... until you get to the main subject that in this case it's
the rolling hills, the far away rolling hills, and the snowy mountains in the background
I think that it also adds a little bit of mystery, makes you think even if it is for just half a second
I'm gonna split the frame in two, snowy patches on the left, nothing on the right, or kind of. I'm using the orange filter
hoping to create even more contrast between the white patches of snow and the grass
This is my second composition, a little bit far away from the first one
I'm again splitting the frame in two, now with a diagonal line
Using those two hills, snowy hill, and the not-so snowy hill as you can see there. Those are the two
So I'm trying to take
Something like that in the middle, with that rock in the middle of the frame
I don't know if that's gonna work out but
It looks cool in my in my head
Okay, and this is the third and probably last composition from here. I'm taking more hills, in this case
going downhill
leading to these two rocks, and I'm placing the Sun that is behind the clouds on the top left
Using the orange filter again. That's the scene right there. That's the Sun and the two rocks that I'm trying to capture. Let's take it
So this is this is the park that I was talking about
Looks like the campground is closed looks like they are working or doing some construction there
I'm not sure, but I stayed at this campground like three or four times already, and it's very very cool
It's like ten bucks a night, it's nothing. It has
hiking trails there and spending the night here in the desert is pretty awesome because
When you have clear skies, you can see so many stars. It's perfect for astrophotography.
It's in a canyon, so you don't have the whole view of the sky, but man,
There is no light contamination or anything like that
So I'm just gonna walk around this part of the park now where there are some structures
And I'm just gonna be taking photos with the Holga. I think is the perfect place to do so. Let's go.
Finally back at the hotel took a shower about to go out for dinner. having a drink
But yeah, what a long day today. I'm putting a lot of miles
I think I've driven almost 600 miles already in pretty much two days. I don't know about the photos
I think I took four rolls today
I have... I don't know if you can see them, there all of those were from yesterday
I forgot the ones I took today in the car, but this is gonna do it for today. Thank you so much
Thank you so much for watching and see you tomorrow