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Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast.
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Hey, what’s going on? This is Billy Newman, I’m a photographer you can see some of my work at Billy Newman photo calm or hanging out here on my YouTube page and check out some of these, these photographs that I’ve made a few videos about. Today’s photograph is an image that was taken on film it was of really it’s just kind of an interesting one. And this is what I wanted to talk about this is from a real simple kit and it’s probably something that would cost less than $150 in equipment overall to make this type of image. Now that comes from this photograph was made using an old used film camera with a regular 15 millimeter lens on I bet you can go to a thrift store and find something like this for really a pretty inexpensive price. And there’s an amazing amount of quality you can get from it. But this this Daisy and grass field was photographed really just right next to me beside a curb on 18th Street in my town was kind of interesting how it was but there’s a nice soft evening light that was coming in low against the horizon backlighting, this little patch of grass, it’s just a little patch of lawn that had a handful of daisies blooming in it. So I pulled up real close with the 50 millimeter at one, eight. And I photographed this image on film of these daisies and the soft evening light of the early springtime really cool image and I just kind of like the mood of it. But it was kind of cool to be able to talk about how inexpensively and how effectively you can use equipment that’s still available.
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You can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think if you look at Billy Newman under the authors section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism on camping, and cool stuff over there. Thinking about a couple of the photo things that I’ve been trying to put up I just posted one earlier it was a backpacking photo that I’d taken when we were out in the willow mountains up in the eagle cap wilderness. And that’s a really cool spot. I’ve talked about it a ton of times before but but it really is a special location as it goes even for Oregon which is really blessed with a lot of very nice, very approachable photographable locations. But the will our mountains have always been something that stood out to me as one of my favorites. And I’ve heard that region has a lot of stuff like that like as you move further over into Idaho into the sawtooth mountains in the house Canyon, there’s a lot of really peculiar spectacles to go see in that area. And it’s really interesting how it’s laid out. I appreciate it and I love to kind of getting to go through the whole area. But the allow mountain specifically have something kind of special to him, especially when you get up into the Alpine area. And you get away from people even as it goes when you get to Joseph, you’re significantly away from people but as you leave and kind of pushing further into the ego cap wilderness
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number of people just drops down to less than a dozen by far. And, and even less than that, you know, as you move into the more remote areas, it’s sort of interesting how there’s a threshold of where people are like if it’s under so many miles of a hike, there’s going to be a lot more people there just sort of evolution maybe it’s our you know, it’s it’s just a natural selection, right? It’s, it’s where people would naturally select their interest to be closer to the main road and then further and more competitive at a farther distance. And so it’s interesting, like if you go to a lake that’s six miles in, there’s going to be more people there than if you went to the lake that was nine miles and it just people kind of pull out first or they pull out to the to the route of the trail it’s going to not be as much it seems like but also on top of that, really. And I blame myself for this specifically. It’s way busier now. This decade just generally it seems like the Rei or the the whole outdoor industry, this whole outdoor media industry outdoor adventure industry, it just seems like it’s double what it was 20% up from what it was a decade ago. That might make sense. And the reason that I would say that is it just seems like there were so many more people filling the parking lot of the area than there were in the years past. And the reason I say that and the reason why that’s that’s qualified information maybe is it’s after Labor Day. Now what’s the trick used to be when I was doing a lot of the photo trips that I do, as I kind of travel east trim here and kind of do a big loop in the fall to take photos is after Labor Day where you really need Notice that a lot of these state parks, a lot of the managed locations where there’s a park coast or something like that those all get shut down for the winter, it’s closed off unless it’s like a bigger, higher volume National Park kind of area. But all of these remote locations like the walala wilderness, or the alvord Desert that we went to these were places where there would likely be no people, especially no people, if it were off hours off season, sort of stuff, sort of visitation. But what we noticed when we were there is that the parking lot was filled up, like you know, it was 5060 7080, cars deep, they all just kind of Park in a line up above the trailhead, and that’s, you know, you kind of visually just are impacted by Wow, there must be this many people from all these cars up in the mountains right now. And in the past, like when I was there in 2011. And then again, in 2012, and 13, there would be no car, like there was five cars in the parking lot. It was me, I pulled up right to the very front. And I mean, and even when we went this last time, it was a mid week trip. It wasn’t it wasn’t Friday, Saturday, Sunday. And even still, with that midweek trip, there was more traffic up there. So we went to our noid Lake, I believe. And that was an area that was I think, like six miles. And so a little bit of what I was talking about before about natural selection of the hike, you’re going to go on that day, six miles was is less of a hike. I think the other one icelake is nine miles, maybe the other one is 10 1213 miles, you know, somewhere in there, but it just kind of progressively goes on from about six there’s about one every two miles or so if you know if you kind of put you know your so many more miles after that. There’s this next one, so on and so forth, as you can imagine, but a lot of people go up to this like for like a lunch day hike, which sounds like a blast not having to actually carry all the heavy stuff with you or, you know, all the equipment, all the overnight stuff that you’d have to deal with. But it was fine. It was it was cool. We went up to our North Lake, we camped up there for a night. And we did a lot of photo stuff. But it was kind of tough because I think I mentioned on that last podcast where the we were prepared, but the weather would kind of get twisted on us more often than really what I wanted it to. But the weather would kind of spin out on us a little bit. So the first night we were there, it was nice and decent. And temperature and weather as we were hiking up to the location where we’re going to camp. There’s only one other couple camping up there I think was like a mom and a daughter team that were there were camped out of the site. And then so we pulled away from them on a lake and you know, it’s just the whole lake to us, which is really cool. It was fun. So we shot around there for a while but there’s rain that picked up it was probably one of the first rains of the season while at least for me or for us or for that area but it seemed like it kind of built up over the mountains you know, like how you see storm systems kind of build up over the mountain top sometimes seems sort of like it was that like it was some kind of weather pattern that was about that allows it seemed like it was nice everywhere else. But it just seemed like it wasn’t very nice there. So we camped there for the night. We got through some rain. It was nice. The next morning, we
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took a lot of photos that morning a lot of photos through the day, we kind of walked around the lake and it was interesting, I guess way back before it was before it was a wilderness area. Before whatever kind of legislation went into effect in the 60s I think was the Nixon era. You know, a Nixon had just gotten in and what was like 68 and they pushed for the Wilderness Act or the wild and scenic act are brothers a bunch of stuff before that, but from way back like 100 years ago, like before, these regulations existed on what could and couldn’t happen in wilderness areas. I guess it was a bot area next at Lake and they built like six or seven cabins up there. Like we just cut down wood and built these cabins so you got there I think they’re still owned as private property was sort of grandfathered in. Once the whole wilderness thing was established there’s a lot of those private land facilities that were grandfathered into that system because they’d already existed there. So these are all like undeveloped and maintain things that I guess you could you could pay someone to to hike up all the way there and then camp there if you’d want to. It seemed a little dilapidated to me though I don’t know if I’d want to put out some cash for that after especially after hiking all day, I might as well just take my tent or hammock or sleeping pad or something, you know if I’m doing that, but it was cool to go check out and it was kind of cool to spot something a little different up there. But it’s really fun. You know, honestly, I don’t like the cabins because really what I want to go to the allowance for is the wilderness experiences the getting away from the cabins, the private property, the signs that say you can’t go here, someone else owns this sort of thing. I’m trying to get away from that and go to public land and go to places where I have access where I get to do things. And so if it’s in civilization like downtown and I see private property or whatever it might be, or you know, this is ours, it’s not yours. I say all right, fine, that’s okay. Because that’s the that’s the negotiation we’ve made here and civilization, but when we go way out when we’ve hiked in miles and miles under our own discipline, and accord to get Somewhere to spend time there and then there’s some sign some indication that we’re not supposed to be there or we’re not supposed to be a part of it or we’re not supposed to whatever we’re supposed to respect their private property and it’s a big open field that is a place that everyone gets to hike to that’s just a big lake that’s a tourist destination now I’m not respecting that rule I’m going wherever I’m going to do whatever that’s your business to get a camp post to discipline not mine. So that’s might be a leg that I don’t go to anymore or that we won’t really hike out to again I think mostly you know, photos were fun it was fine other than like not really getting the the light and the opportunity you know running into a storm roll the rest of it that kind of took away a little bit but really there’s there’s just not as many How do you say like priority landscape features at that at that location there’s a pretty Lake it’s very nice it’s very Alpine looking and you know in its presentation but it just didn’t really have one of those those triple A titles to photograph when you get there there’s not like a lake and then this really cool perspective of a mountain it’s just sort of a big Ridge that runs along this this glacial lake cool really pretty beautiful shouldn’t take away from it but but when your goal is just kind of to get to a specific kind of thing and then get a photo in the can as they’d say in the beers or you know when you get to finish it it’s done it’s already locked off and it’s already captured you got what you want then you can move on it just didn’t really feel like we got there at our location in the allow amounts but it was super fun being there it was cold at night though man made mornings bad that’s the thing that sucks about morning photos at night. You get the sun to heat up the earth all day and then you get to go out and take photos of it in the morning though it’s just been cold the whole time especially as we move into fall as we move into winter like that cold just really starts to peak it seems like well you know we’re getting really close to the freeze I’m sure it was already freezing up there above the Alpine level like we were 7500 feet something like that. So that’s a lot Are you from coming down here oh man and the altitude not altitude sickness, altitude fatigue it just drew on me Marina to she really noticed it but you know, as you go around, it’s like one o’clock that next afternoon you’re just trying to you’re just trying to have energy to sit and eat lunch it seemed like it seemed like you know, if you’re really pumped up and you really got to hike in or something you could struggle through it, but just that that native energy that you would have to go do something it just was really zap that might be just from sleeping on rocks for four days beforehand, and then try to hike or something like that. But it’s but it’s it’s weird. I don’t know. I remember a couple other times he was he kind of if the backpack and you climb up in elevation, it just can be really fatiguing.
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So we made it through it, I posted a photo up to Instagram today it’s hitting Facebook and Twitter and whatnot this afternoon. I’m also trying to run through and find a good video clip like a good behind the scenes video clip of us kind of walking through or running around up in the clouds as we’re hiking and I know I have a bunch of those of us backpacking and trying to put in some work to get to a spot to take some cool photos so
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So I wanted to talk about the training stuff that I’ve been doing. I think I’d mentioned I had done a good bit of work with, you know, other programs in the past. But this is really the first time that I’ve gotten into spending time learning specifically about some of the features and the controls in Logic Pro and now Logic Pro 10.5. So what I’ve done is gone to now what’s called LinkedIn learning. LinkedIn learning com. They used to be a website called lynda.com and lynda.com was these these screencast video tutorials of how to use different types of software and how to be trained, you know, just training for different types of most of the time computer related skills. So I’ve used that service for a number of things over the years specifically I think Chris orbix Lightroom tutorial is probably like standard for a lot of photographers that have been interested in and learning about photography editing. And so all of those courses that have existed over the years have a lot of a lot of good information in them. But so I went back to, to what would be lynda.com. Now as it has been purchased by LinkedIn, through Microsoft, it’s now called LinkedIn learning. Right on Hmm. So LinkedIn learning has all of the old Lynda videos, including all the updates to the videos that they’re still continuing to produce. So I went on and I tried to find some training videos about Logic Pro 10. There’s a number of videos for like Essential Training for Logic Pro 10. But there’s nothing because now this new update Logic Pro 10.5 is really only maybe two weeks old or something. It’s, there’s no there’s just no new video training established for it. So I think for Logic Pro 10.4, there’s a full Essential Training Video that was produced by was a Scott Hirsch music producer out of New York. And he just kind of goes through the controls and the system and stuff and you get you get a good feel of like how to how to make changes, how to use different features, how to use the mixer versus like the linear tracking system, you know how to use different controls and stuff. A lot of this stuff is similar if you’ve used GarageBand, like I was mentioned, or another digital audio workstation that does multi tracking in the past. But it was cool, yeah, learning licks and techniques about how to apply different different compress, or how to make the settings of a compressor do more specifically the types of things that I’m wanting to do in a mix, I think was some good information for me to be learning about through the the Logic Pro training stuff. Also, in addition to that, if you don’t want that, so LinkedIn learning is a paid service, you can get a one month free trial at that too, which I’m taking advantage of at this moment to get to get some new information. But what you can do is go to YouTube and look up similar, similar training videos. And there’s a lot of people a lot of music producers out there that have done their own screencasts of kind of walking through different services or different techniques that these digital audio workstations provide so as looking at a guy guys website, I think it was why Logic Pro rules calm and that had a lot of good training videos on it too. He had a lot of information about how different pieces of it work and just how to how to make use of a lot of the techniques that you’d have to apply in a certain piece of the software to make it more effective. And I thought that was really cool. I really appreciated some of the stuff that he’d done and thanks a lot for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Hope you guys check out some stuff on Billy Newman photo.com few new things up there some stuff on the homepage, some good links to other other outbound sources, some links to books and links to some podcasts like this a blog posts are pretty cool. Yeah, check it out at Billy numina photo.com. Thanks a lot for listening to this episode. And the lucky next