{"id":274,"date":"2013-05-14T14:42:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T00:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2013-05-14T14:45:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T00:45:30","slug":"garden-of-good-and-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/garden-of-good-and-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Of Good And Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nWhen I travel to shoot I need to research an area to get an idea for what to explore perhaps, and find other things along the way of course, but in doing so I try to extremely limit my exposure to other people’s photographs. \u00a0Never do I want to be at a location and have a shot to replicate. \u00a0Of course there are very oft photographed areas that I am sure to overlap, however if similarities occur this would most likely be by chance. \u00a0Which I am ok with as my intention was pure.
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\nArriving at this southern Utah location I knew very little about what to find here, other than bizarre rock formations. \u00a0Which could be said about much of southern UT \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0I took the late afternoon to wander around and explore what the area had to offer. \u00a0Rock monoliths standing like goblins or some otherworldly creatures. \u00a0As I came across this arch section the challenge became how would I photograph this place. \u00a0And I moved on to find other rocks to photograph at sunset. \u00a0 The clearish skies did not lend themselves to good color but my default then becomes stars. \u00a0Making my way back to this spot I moved back and forth trying to best compose the shapes in front of me and then the waiting game for the night sky to make it’s full appearance. \u00a0During this course of events I took out my phone and checked the Sky Walk app to see what kind of sky I would be looking at. \u00a0Fast forwarding to the morning I saw that the Milky Way would actually cross in to the gap! \u00a0Well that settled it. \u00a0I was going to set my alarm for 5am and come back here. \u00a0Knowing it would be almost impossible to compose this shot in the dark, even with my headlamp, I marked the sand where the tripod legs were to be able to place it back at the weeee hours of the morn.
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\nDinner in the car and sleeping in the back of the truck…5am comes. \u00a0I head out to my spot and set up. \u00a0There’s the tail end of the Milky Way as expected though not the super vibrant section that was over my right shoulder. \u00a0I ran around for about 30-45 min light-painting and shooting. \u00a0Then finally deciding to try and capture other shots while the stars were still blazing (see: There Be Goblins<\/a>). \u00a0For whatever reason I decided to head back to the spot of the arch to just capture it one more time. \u00a0Just in case. \u00a0The faint light of dawn already starting to rub out the stars I ran around even faster. \u00a0Finally settling on the fact the stars were gone to the daylight and off to find other compositions.
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\nWeeks later, while going through the photographs it was clear. \u00a0My choice to go back and reshoot the original idea was a good one. \u00a0While the sky was not the blazing Milky Way I wanted the cool blue tones of twilight combined with the warmer light from my headlamp created a surreal scene. \u00a0And even still, the Milky Way can be seen through the arching rocks. \u00a0When it all comes together, even if different than planned, it makes all the early mornings worth while \ud83d\ude42
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\nThanks!
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