The Megapolis I was spending the day with various characters including June Arunga, Paul Roussin, and Cali Lewis while hunting around New York City for some interesting shots. I never get tired of shooting there. It's a bit like the ocean in a way... it changes and cycles with the light and the motion. I find myself circling back to the same bits again and again to see how things have changed.I don't know why I happened to be posting this one so close to the Petaluma puddle shot from a few days ago... I suppose it is just somewhat of a coincidence! The hardest bit about these shots is getting my head so close to the ground. It's impossibly awkward, and I'm sure I look like quite the loon, splayed out across the pavement of Times Square!- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog. - Trey Ratcliff | Stuck In Customs

Thank you again for all the comments and feedback - much appreciated and I read them all! A lot of requests come in for my tutorial about how I do these shots - you can find it here: HDR Tutorial

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StuckInCustoms > A Silent Evening in Kyoto Under the Cherry Blossoms The beautiful white cherry blossoms were in full bloom and their gentle petals would fall down like snow, collecting on the ground.To get here to Kyoto, I took the bus from Osaka — and this was not the most simple thing in the world. I’m used to traveling in strange places and getting around confusing transport systems, but that doesn’t mean it is always easy! The Japanese transportation system is particularly perplexing. The train system is the easiest to figure out. The bus system is second. The subway is last — dead last.Many of these places I end up have no one that speaks English, so there’s a bit of guesswork involved. After I’m on a bus for 5-10 minutes, I start to have a sneaking suspicion that perhaps I am on the wrong one! With no one to ask or no one to call, it’s a bit more uncertain than I prefer it!- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.

StuckInCustoms > The Mysteries of Rodeo Drive I have a long-format piece coming up about something very cool in California. While I was putting together that whole piece, I made some time to get out at night for some HDRs. There's one very strange and mysterious store right in the middle of Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Who can figure out what is happening in this photo? - Trey Ratcliff Read the rest of this entry, including some news on an upcoming long-format piece as well as a new print, at the Stuck in Customs blog.

StuckInCustoms > Pasture Sentinel After I drove through Nelson, I was ripping along the highway and noticed an old farmhouse. I'm not sure how I noticed it, but the area was so different, I just had to stop. I spent 90% of my time taking photos of the farmhouse, and on the way back, I saw this tree. It stood solitary and wonderful; I had to grab a shot.- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.

StuckInCustoms > Tokyo Tunnel During a fun photowalk in Tokyo, we were doing our best to get a city shot around sunset. We speculated that perhaps the best way to get from Point A to a mysterious Point B was to go through this tunnel. It didn't quite get us where we wanted to go, but we did arrive someplace different. - Trey Ratcliff The full post is available here.

StuckInCustoms > The Mighty Castle The beautiful castle shifts and changes its color every few minutes. The way the light cycles and changes on it is mysterious ... - Trey Ratcliff Read the rest of this entry here.

StuckInCustoms > The Shuttle in Spacedock I finally got to see the Space Shuttle! It’s one of those things a young boy always dreams of seeing, don’t you know? I’m still waiting on that phone call from NASA where they invite me to see one blast off. I’d love to do a creative shot there…This was shot in the new Air and Space Museum on DC. Yes, not that old one that I used to think was cool when I was a kid. This is a new and improved center that is completely unbelievable. I had a small argument with a security guard that would not let me take my tripod. He said I needed a “blue card”. I asked how to get that and he said the only person that could possibly give it to me was probably at home. There were a number of bureaucracies where I could have filed a series of complaints, but only if such complaints were filled out in a way as pre-approved by other bureaucracies. I did send out a self-serving Tweet to @Smithsonian asking them for special dispensation — I hoped to sway them since, after all, one of my photos did hang in the Smithsonian. They did indeed respond, but one day late. So, I’ll still keep @Smithsonian on one of my Five Twitter Lists.So, I was forced to take my HDR shots with a hand-held pose. How barbaric and depressing. I would try to wedge myself up against a beam or a foreigner when possible, but that rarely works out as good as a tripod. Those things are never placed in the right compositional spots, sadly.But, I did have the Nikon D3S as a backup, and I fired this one off. It was a 4-exposure HDR from -2 to +1. ISO 400, 23mm, f/6.7 and 1/6 second shutter speed. The +2 exposure was too blurry, and I got most of the light I needed out of the +1 anyway.- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.

StuckInCustoms > The Enola Gay This is a 5-exposure HDR of the Enola Gay at the Air and Space Museum in DC. It was shot with a 14-24 lens and the Nikon D3S. The aperture was F/8 and ISO 200.- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.

StuckInCustoms > Our Night Under the Stars I'm in the middle of a great trip to a ranch in Montana that I'll never forget. The nights here are always strange and different. I've only gotten outside a few times to take photos, mostly because of inclement weather. - Trey Ratcliff Read the rest at the Stuck in Customs blog.

StuckInCustoms > The Gentle Eye of the Beast I gave a little impromptu workshop a few days ago. I took a group of friends for the afternoon and we went out for an instructional photowalk, followed by a hardcore critique. On the short walk, we visited a barn and a stable. I gave assignments to people to all gather photos of the same subjects, find unique bits, and then submit a few photos for critique. I've done this sort of thing many times before, and I'm always surprised at what I see ... - Trey Ratcliff Read the rest at the Stuck in Customs blog.

StuckInCustoms > The Metal Moose After the book party in Chicago (thanks again for all of you that showed up!), we had a little photowalk the next day. Along the way, we stopped outside an office building near Michigan Avenue that had this enormous metal moose. I'm not a big fan of taking photos of art, but this was an exception. - Trey Ratcliff The rest of this entry, as well as plugs for a few eBooks by friends of mine, is here.

StuckInCustoms > The Bund in the Rain This is shot from the old British part of Shanghai called the Bund. The rain was bitter rough that night and I was on the roof, but I managed to get in position and stay dry enough (for a moment) for this one.- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.

StuckInCustoms > The Megapolis I was spending the day with various characters including June Arunga, Paul Roussin, and Cali Lewis while hunting around New York City for some interesting shots. I never get tired of shooting there. It's a bit like the ocean in a way... it changes and cycles with the light and the motion. I find myself circling back to the same bits again and again to see how things have changed.I don't know why I happened to be posting this one so close to the Petaluma puddle shot from a few days ago... I suppose it is just somewhat of a coincidence! The hardest bit about these shots is getting my head so close to the ground. It's impossibly awkward, and I'm sure I look like quite the loon, splayed out across the pavement of Times Square!- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.

StuckInCustoms > Heavy Industry in Petaluma Taking photos near ground-water can be very interesting. And hard! Getting near that puddle is tough because you have to splay out the tripod. Even worse, you gotta kneel down in the muck (since puddles usually involve nearby muck). But, these are all relatively high-grade problems, all in all ... - Trey Ratcliff The rest of this entry can be read here at stuckincustoms.com.

StuckInCustoms > The Inner Sanctum Here is a cool and relatively unknown place in San Francisco. Can anyone figure out where this mysterious location is?I went in here with my dad while we were looking for cool photo-ops. We weren't so sure we were allowed in this place, but we just busted in quickly for a shot before anybody said anything.- Trey Ratcliff Read more here at stuckincustoms.com.

StuckInCustoms > About to Explore Milford Sound Milford Sound was one of the three places that everyone in New Zealand told me I had to visit. And after arriving there, I'm glad I did! It was a bit foggy and cloudy while I was there, but it made for a nice mood. The light rain would get a bit annoying on the lens, but we all learn to deal with these little bummer things that happen. Nothing is perfect and nothing is easy... - Trey Ratcliff Read the rest of this entry here.

The Megapolis

I was spending the day with various characters including June Arunga, Paul Roussin, and Cali Lewis while hunting around New York City for some interesting shots. I never get tired of shooting there. It's a bit like the ocean in a way... it changes and cycles with the light and the motion. I find myself circling back to the same bits again and again to see how things have changed.

I don't know why I happened to be posting this one so close to the Petaluma puddle shot from a few days ago... I suppose it is just somewhat of a coincidence! The hardest bit about these shots is getting my head so close to the ground. It's impossibly awkward, and I'm sure I look like quite the loon, splayed out across the pavement of Times Square!

- Trey Ratcliff

Click here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.

The Megapolis

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