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Lake Metigoshe Summer Scouting | North Dakota

8/31/2016

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So I photographed a wedding at Lake Metigoshe, North Dakota this past Saturday. However, I went up there the day before to do some location scouting and just familiarize myself with the area a bit more in the summer, since the only other time I had been there was in the winter with my brother. Check out that post here! Quite a bit different in the summer, I have to say, but really really really nice, especially since it was a bit cooler out and some of the leaves are even starting to change. I was also shooting around very near to sunset, so the light was pretty spectacular!

I'll start off with one of my favorite shots though as the header photo, a curious deer wondering what on earth I was doing on his trail! Also, this is going to be a fairly long post, but I LOVE these photos!

All these photos were taken with my Fujifilm X-Pro2 and 50-140 f/2.8, 23 f/1.4, or 16-55 f/2.8. 
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Starting out I was trying to find a good location near the lake, but apparently pretty much ALL of the waterfront property is private, so that didn't really happen. I did find a decent ​spot right on an isthmus, but that was about it for on-lake locations (though more on that later.)
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I had driven through a couple intense storms on the way up there, and one of them seemed to have caught up to me and gave me some really nice photos!
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While still driving around in some of the neighborhoods monopolizing the waterfront looking for good lakeside photo spots I managed to get some really nice photos of some deer on what looked to be a very rarely used trail. With the grass and trees making a nice green tunnel it was a very picturesque scene, and I'm glad that I had a bit longer lens with me. I absolutely LOVE these deer photos!
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After this I decided to pay my $5 and head into the State park. As I said I have stayed there before so I had a pretty good idea of a couple good photo spots, and the sun was looking amazing at that time of day, so I got a lot of really good color in the photos. The angle of the sun wasn't the greatest on the lake, but once I got in amongst the trees is where it really started to get good. 

I tend to focus a lot more on the details of a scene with only a few wider establishing shots. That being said I was also looking for good photo locations to put a bride and groom as well, so some of the photos might seem like they are missing something because I was imagining a couple in there. And then others are just nice details in the forest!
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Thanks for looking! Really happy with these photos, and while the light wasn't the same for the couple photos from the wedding the next day I am still really happy with the forest vibe that we got even at 1pm!

​Kevin
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