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Speaking of Silhouettes
December 25, 2006I'm pretty fond of them...in the right situation.
Sometimes I wonder if I go overboard with them. I'll have a couple in a few weeks, then go months without one.
Here are two for you.
Vernon resident Sammy Sanches sets up his 10-inch telescope at sunset Saturday, July 22, 2006 for the Star Walk, a naked-eye tour of the stars and constellations at Copper Breaks State Park. (Jason Palmer/Times Record News)
This was easily one of the coolest assignments I had the entire year. Mainly because I'm an astronomy-wanna be.
I've spent countless hours staring into the night sky during a meteor shower or picked out constellations.
This was a story we did on the Star Walk tour at Copper Breaks State Park between Quanah and Crowell. The hard part was trying to show people looking at the stars in the pitch black of night.
Basically...I had to get shots of the astronomers setting up their telescopes and watching a few stars pop out of the twilight sky before it got too dark. I couldn’t' use my flash, or I'd blind people and ruin their experience.
The entire time we're driving out there...I'm thinking to myself, get silhouettes of a guy setting up his telescope in the sunset. That's the shot. That's the big shot for the entire trip.
So we get there about an hour before sunset, I'm working around the site, getting shots of this and that...all the while paying attention to the colors in the sky to get the perfect shot.
Time goes by and before too long, I'm set up, waiting for Sammy to make some last minute adjustments on the telescope before it gets too dark for him to do so.
A few frames later, I've got my silhouette and then I get to enjoy the rest of the evening staring at the stars.
Jason Palmer/Times Record News
Robert Ernst escapes the late afternoon heat as he sits in the shade and takes a drink from a bottle of water during the Men's Doubles Championship match of the Wichita Falls City Tennis Tournament.
This is one of those random photos that happen when the editors ask me to get some "weather art."
It was hot as fire out and I was shooting tennis action at the City Tennis Tournament. I saw this shot happen during a break in play, but wasn't prepared to shoot it. I was taking a break myself.
I was pretty mad that I missed the shot, especially since it told a really good story. This guy, sitting in the shade, drinking from a huge water bottle that reflected the blue sky.
So I'm sitting there thinking...okay, IF it happens again, I'll be ready this time.
Luckily...it did happen again, and I got the shot I wanted. I used the 80-200mm f2.8 to get the shot. That would blur the background nice enough to have a fairly artistic shot.
Posted by Jason Palmer at 12:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
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The guy getting a drink is AWESOME!!!!! Nice shot.
