1/10 @ f/11 iso 400
Canon 5D Mark II, Zeiss 21mm f/2.8 ZE
w/ 3 Stop Soft Graduated Neutral Density

30 sec @ f/2.8 iso 200
Canon 5D Mark II, Zeiss 21mm f/2.8 ZE

It’s been a crazy week and I’ve been a bad blogger! I’ve been cranking on things in the office, working on a few different projects, and have been shooting a ton. I’ve got a lot of processing to catch up on over the weekend and hopefully I’ll plant myself in front of the computer for a few hours of editing.

Today’s scenes are from Tuesday evening. I’ve been shooting sunset almost exclusively on Pea Island for over a month and I’m feeling a little burnt out on a few of my locations. I really need a good windy storm to come clean things up for me there. Laura suggested that I try somewhere new and with that in mind, I drove a bit further south to try my luck shooting the soundside marsh near Salvo. I worked in an area that I hadn’t visited and had a little trouble finding some inspiring foregrounds. After about 45 minutes of scouting, I decided to work some of the clumps of sea wrack and marsh grasses. Great ball of a sunset and the twilight was pretty good. After I worked the sound for a while, I decided to motor over to Rodanthe Pier to see what was happening. I setup under the pier and worked some long exposures for a few minutes before calling it a night.

Even though I mentioned my SoFoBoMo project in my last post…. I hate to say, but I think I’m going to abandon it again this year. I have just not had a chance to put time into that project like I want. I spent several hours working on some video tutorials this week and definitely feel that I should make some of these teaching projects a higher priority. There are only so many hours in the day… and in this case, I think SoFoBoMo gets cut in lieu of teaching work and my primary shooting suffering. Perhaps this just means that I wasn’t inspired by my own project?