All photographers at one time or another get asked the story behind a photograph. I know I have. As a photographer I love hearing about how someone else achieved an image. I love how more times than not it is just plain luck. The intention is to go out and photograph one thing and you end up with something else completely different. So I thought I would do some behind the image posts of some of my favorite images.
The image above was taken Christmas eve 2007 at Netarts Bay, Oregon. It is one of my very favorite landscapes that I have captured. Cory and I had been living in Idaho for a year and a half, so whenever we made it back to Tillamook we like to try to go to the beach. Cory had gotten a crap trap that attached to a fishing pole and wanted to try it out. This is something that happens often for us. He loves to fish, but me not so much. So I always go with him and shoot pictures instead. It was raining on and off. So he would cast the trap and I would take pictures and then jump back in the car until the next break. We were sitting facing the rocks there and saw this break in the clouds. I jumped out and set up my tripod and camera real quick and fired off a few shots before I got too wet.
I was pretty excited when I got back home and saw how well it turned out after looking at it on the computer. I am not one to spend a lot of time manipulating an image in post processing. I do believe in making the image as it really appeared, because a camera cannot capture the array of colors that we actually see. But other than bring back some detail in the clouds in the blue sky I have really not done much to this image. Many people think that the vignette was added in post production, but it was what was actually happening in the sky then.
