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When shooting Bodie, a ghost town high in the Sierras of California, I had my ten-month-old baby with me and I needed to be able to get some shots quick without thinking about it. It was also 94 degrees outside and somehow raining on and off. I felt that bracketing shots was a good approach to getting an interesting takes on this crazy California ghost town. I was so confident in the X-Pro 2 to be able to do this that I even left my A7rII in my car, hidden of course.
With the new +-2EV bracketing, HDR on the X-Pro 2 is a lot of fun and much much easier.
So how do you shoot HDR on the X-Pro 2?
On my second night up in Mammoth there wasn't much going on with the weather. It was clear blue skies everywhere except in this one direction looking out towards the Twin Lakes. Literally everywhere else was boring blue skies so this was my shot for the night.
In front of me here were the twin lakes with mosquitos buzzing thick in the air (I somehow did not get one bite), behind me was another lake, Lake Mammie. I got a few shots there later, but didn't stay long because there was a black bear hanging out about thirty feet away from me and it was making me uncomfortable.
In the city of Hakodate Japan you can ride a gondola up to the top of a nearby mountain and see the view of the city. It's a pretty popular view and very spectacular, except it's insanely crowded.
Japan and especially Hokkaido has become a hotspot for Chinese tourism. I guess they're looking to escape the air pollution that plagues most of Asia. Can't blame them either, well yeah I guess you can. It's mostly their fault.
That's one great thing about North America, it's like the Garden of Eden compared to Asia when it comes to air quality.
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