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Submitted by keithloh on Thu, 2008-12-04 18:26.
My shot in Pacific Yachting | Dec 08 p.30, 31
As I wrote before, this week really was all photo all the time and while it tested the patience and love of Sarah it really represents cresting a bit of a threshold for me in the photography world. I've been published already but this was the first time it was real money. Then to actually see it in a two-page spread to start a feature story blew me away. All of you for whom this is old hat, please bear with me and my afterglow.
The funny thing is that when they asked me for it I was thinking, how could this even work in a layout? Now I can see why I'm a photographer and they are the magazine designers.
The shot
I took the shot on a tripod with a Sigma 10-20mm. In front of the Sigma I held two Cokin ND grads so that I would keep as much of the sun peaking through the swirling clouds as I could. Because it was a landscape I shot with deep DOF at f/11 (anything above f/8 would be all right) and probably shot at 1/200th for exposure reasons. I bracketed the shots and kept this one.
My friend Matt has bugged me that it was actually his shot. Well, let's just say that we shot very similar photos on the way back from Brackendale a couple years ago and our tripods were probably standing in the same holes in the snow.
You can see the shot by itself here:
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So proud of you ... following your Dad's footsteps...of course I had an advantage and was fortunate enough to be on the Editorial Board of Oxford University Press that published the Oxford Progressive Geography series of 4 text books (in fact I ghost-wrote Book 4 - the Geography of Southeast Asia)...they used one of my fotos on the back cover of Book 3...a rubber tapper collecting latex. I used a Voigtlander then. I was paid $40 Malaysian dollars - not quite what you received in payment for your lovely foto! Congratulations. DAD
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Gee, Dad, I wish I had your original Voigtlander! That same thief took my Minolta n2020 as I remember.