Day 1 of our Wildflower Intensive

The fully laden bee butt shot.

Another great day at Light.  Hal's Wildflower Intensive is in full swing.  We spent the morning in the studio, gallery, and around the school perfecting our techniques of live view, expanded depth of field, flash, multi flash, reflector, diffuser, and more.

After a quick break we took off for a few acres of poppies.  Weather cooperated beautifully with full sun, blue sky, and cool (but light breezes.)

Deep cover.

Five and a half hours in the field with the flowers was incredible photography.  Off early tomorrow morning to do it all again with different subject matter (ok, I'll probably sneak a few poppies in.)

Fiat Lux!

Poppies are Here

Happy as a bee in pollen (a little more blog friendly than the other expression.)

Out scouting again today and found huge fields of poppies.  I am always impressed by the intensity of the orange.  I am always underwhelmed by the sRGB conversion for web.  Hope to see you out here for a wildlfower excursion. 

All shots today were handheld with a Canon 5D and EF 180mm f/3.5L macro. 

Fiat Lux!