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We just got off the plane in Australia and in our inbox was the firmware that was going
to let us shoot the IQ250 at ISO 6400. Nobody has shot this camera at 6400 yet in the wild.
And it really is the wild out here. We're in the middle of the 7 year cicada patch in
Australia and the cicadas are going off like crazy. We decided to come out to the rainforest.
We have just the afternoon here before we need to hit the road again. We're going to
make the most of these few hours and the overcast light and really put this ISO of 6400 to the test.
So cool right now! The sun is hidden behind the mountain and there's just a little
bit of light kissing the side of this tree so it's really beautiful right now.
I'm known as being an action-sports photographer but I appreciate landscape and the structure of
nature and wild environments whether there is a subject in there or not. Often times
when you are shooting on assignment or on a commercial project you fall into the same
routines and shoot what you're comfortable with because it is not the right place to
take chances. So when you get the chance to come out and shoot for fun that is an opportunity
to shoot something because it feels good or because you want to experiment. That is why
spending a couple of hours this afternoon hiking around in these trails in the jungle
is really fun for me. You can take something that you think is simple and add on depth
and layers and interesting features to it and get a really dynamic photograph and that
is what I love doing. You come out here and people think: Oh, there's just a tree. But
if you shoot it the right way and give it the proper amount of depth, it becomes an
interesting tree to look at. That is what a good photographer should be able to do.
Take something that looks simple and turn it into something that looks magical.
Having the time to shoot personal work is key to finding that on a regular basis.
End of the day here, we had a whirlwind run around the jungle. We didn't have too much time before
they actually locked the gates out here so we just did this fun hike up into the hills
and now we are going to run back to the car because we got 10 minutes left.
Hopefully, they won't lock us in here. It's getting dark. It was really fun to run around and test this
ISO 6400 on the new 250 back. I'm excited to get back to the hotel and check everything
out in Capture One. I'm sure it is going to look awesome.