New River Gorge

By Ed Heaton

I wanted to take a minute and share a few insights from my recent outing to the New River Gorge area in West Virginia. My visit was twofold, one to nail down the logistics for an upcoming workshop there in October and two a little personal time to shoot and relax.

The New River Gorge area is pretty spread out, so I spent a lot of time in the car traveling to the different areas. As with all my scouting visits I tend to take a lot of notes documenting various locations and timings, but this also means being in the right place at the right time which normally only happens twice a day, early in the morning or late in the evening. So to make the most of my midday visits I like to convert my images to black and white. Here are a few I wanted to share that I thought worked extremely well in midday light.

As a professional shooter it's extremely important to create solid images and it's always important to have the right lens with you. I always carry an assortment of Tamron lenses and I constantly put them to good use!

Best of Light,

Ed

Comments

[Mike Thill]

Outstanding photos.
I really like your idea of taking the black & whites in midday light. I also have very good luck with Tamron lenses.

[Ed Heaton]

Good morning Mike and Thank You!

[Tammi]

Dear Mike: Your images are beautiful. I was wondering if you ever take sports pictures in the evenings. I have purchased the tamron 70-200 2.8 lense and of course I am an amatuer. I would like to get your advice on how to set my camera (nikon D40x) with this lense to capture all the action for best possible pictures. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you, Tammi

[Ed Heaton]

Hi Tammi,
I think this comment made it to the wrong spot... But to answer your question I would set your 70-200mm lens aperture to f/2.8 and your ISO to 400... That should give you enough shutter speed to capture the motion!