rocks | Jerry Slough Photography

So I started thinking tonight that I was unable to go out and shoot this weekend, but I stated in the previous post that i felt some of what i enjoyed about Simoneau Guillaume’s work were things I felt i would need to do in post processing. So I started working on the post process. I went into some images i shot in Arizona almost a year ago that after shooting I kind of imported and ignored and have slowly been picking my way through them since.

I decided the red rocks and landscape of Sedona Arizona would go well for this project of light blasted saturated images. I felt that i wanted to re create the c-type print look. The c-type print was what most of our child hood memories were printed on, the prints are contrasty and hyperstaturated. So I went with it, after achieving a clean look in lightroom i moved to analogefex pro, to try and achieve this look. I thought there might be something close in the presets yet there really was not, i decided to get a saturated preset and moved in deeper adding light leaks on my own and making them different for each image. Guillaume did not have use any vignette in his images, but I felt these images needed to be darker on the edges.

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I have been working with light for a long time. I have been comfortable working in many situations for a long time. However sometimes I forget how amazing the “Golden Hour” can bee, it seems to make every thing fall into place, my golden hour photos however i did choose to go with black and white, I feel that the lighting speaks volumes in gray scale and also the images i was photographing wer of Joshua Tree National Park which overall color wise is fairly beige and I am of the belief that if color does not add to the image it does not need to be included. The golden hour led to long deep shadows and a beautifully rendered sky. I am enamored with these images and hope every one enjoys them as much as I do.

I have actually learned a few things I had forgotten while shooting these images. The golden hour is truly worth its weight in gold, it actually makes the image stronger to start with, you almost only need to worry about exposure and composition. The long shadows and strong highlights make for very rich images.

Joshua Tree National Park also helps in creating images every time you turn around in the park there is a new image that only needs to be framed and exposed. I actually think this is one of the most scenic parks in the United States and one that is severally over looked because it is a desert, which is truly fine with me, i would actually hate to have this wonderful place as over photographed as Yosemite or the Sequoias. I find Joshua Trees also very photogenic are their own, and are not at all ugly though many seems to think so.