baja photo expedition

[rdking647]

just got back from my baja photo expedition. on the trip we were accompianied by ralph lee hopkins,michael melford and bob krist,all national geographic photographers. they gave us classes and hints on shooting. heres a few pictures (i shot over 5000 in a week )
light painting
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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/rdking647/8373896493/]isla catalina light painting 6[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/rdking647/]rdking647[/url], on Flickr

sunset
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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/rdking647/8375003542/]DSC_6170[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/rdking647/]rdking647[/url], on Flickr

breaching humpback at sunset
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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/rdking647/8374995728/]DSC_7360[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/rdking647/]rdking647[/url], on Flickr

sea lions
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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/rdking647/8374980746/]DSC_9331[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/rdking647/]rdking647[/url], on Flickr

pelican pair
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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/rdking647/8373905055/]DSC_9459[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/rdking647/]rdking647[/url], on Flickr

dolphin and baby
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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/rdking647/8374972950/]DSC_7727[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/rdking647/]rdking647[/url], on Flickr

sunrise reflected
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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/rdking647/8374969410/]DSC_8960[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/rdking647/]rdking647[/url], on Flickr

[cantbeserious]

1. Nice!

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[antiquie]

2. Incredibly beautiful.

Good of the sea lions to pose so nicely.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Now that s a trip I would not mind

[Solly Mack]

4. Oh, rdking. Those are spectacular!

[Speck Tater]

5. Scale them down, please. Takes way too long to download.

And then they get scaled way down by the browser anyway, wasting a lot of bandwidth.

They are spectacular, though! Well done.

[RC]

6. Yes=, please.

[Celebration]

7. oh, my, heaven on earth!

That is my idea of a trip!!

Love the photos.....................

[Richard D]

8. Wow!

Excellent.
How did you do the top one?

[rdking647]

9. heres how

30 sec exposure f8 iso 800. we took test shots so the sky would turn out purple with stars
we used an led light on the cactus for about 20 seconds,painint up and down. the rock on the right was lit by the ships spotlight for 10 secs (the ship was 1/4 mile or so off shore)

[JohnnyRingo]

10. Very clever to add the photographers in the sunset image

It gives an ordinary sunset, which is probably the most photographed event in the history of the camera, a theme.

I like it. A lot.

[rdking647]

11. one of teh tips the nat geo photogs gave us

was to try and include a "pooping dog" in a photo if possible