OT - Road Trip

[BlueCorn]

:lol: - Don't diss the hat son.


Here's the "hotel" that where we spent two nights in Zion:

 

[Reef Bass]

I'm still trying to get over those tripod legs...

 

[BlueCorn]

:lol: - It's bicycle handle bar tape. It makes a huge difference in cold weather and it's dirt cheap.

 

[klepto]

Nice bar wrap job Doug!
looks like you have some skills there.. (i work part time at a bicycle shop and your work looks clean to me - using the electrical tape is pretty much standard for road bikes I believe)
did you come up with that idea?


thanks for sharing your journey with us.. That lighting on that shot in Page AZ is stunning..

safe travels

 

[BlueCorn]

klepto - mainly I'm just cheap.


Here's a few more.

Mesa Verde NP

Sunset at the "Devil's Golf Course" in Death Valley NP

 

[melev]

One fantastic shot after another. Do you ever take a bad one?

Can you tell us a little bit about how you take them? Such as the Painted Desert shots... what was your vantage point?

What lenses do you like to shoot these scenes with?

 

[SALT WATER CRAZ]

Vary nice looking photos.

 

[BlueCorn]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14523258#post14523258 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by melev
One fantastic shot after another. Do you ever take a bad one?

Can you tell us a little bit about how you take them? Such as the Painted Desert shots... what was your vantage point?

What lenses do you like to shoot these scenes with?

:lol: - I take plenty of bad shots; I just don't show them to anyone. If you don't experiment (and fail occasionally) you can't grow.

The PD shots were all taken slightly below the rim of the canyon. It really wasn't that I needed that vantage point to get the shot, it was that the wind was howling. The only way that I could get a sharp image was to use the rim of the canyon as a wind break.

I carry a 17-40, 24-70 and a 100-400 (on a full frame) and use them all. I don't subscribe to the notion that you have to use a particular lens for a landscape work. I use what ever gets me the shot that I'm after.

Cheers

 

[BlueCorn]

A few shots from Zion NP last week. Since this was my first trip to Zion I don't know if this much water is normal or not. It reminded me, an awful lot, of a desert Yosemite.

Cheers,
Doug

 

[kilroy217]

Great photos. I have one question - how do you get the plants and trees looking so sharp with still having a long enough shutter time to get the waterfall effect? Every time I try this, the wind blows, and all the shrubs look fuzzy. Thanks!

 

[BlueCorn]

Thanks.

You always have to adjust according to the conditions that you have. If the wind had been howling I couldn't have made the last 2 images. I would have found something else to shoot. Learning to fight the urge to shoot under poor conditions will go along way towards improving your own photography.

Also, the amount of time necessary to blur the water has a lot to do with how much water is flowing, how far away you are and the focal length of the lens.

Cheers

 

[Wolverine]

At this time of year, that much water is not unusual. If you go in September, you'll see a lot less.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

dug up an old thread....

dug up an old thread....

and look what a search for 'Zion' revealed.
I should have guessed you'd been there, Doug. Looks like I stayed in the same campsite. Your awesome pictures remind me of the many beautiful and wild places I've been. Thank you.

Can I add one of my own?

Zion

 

[BlueCorn]

It's funny that you picked now to bump this as I made that trip in conjunction with the NANPA Photography Summit, which I'm at again now.

 

[kilroy217]

This thread was started EXACTLY one year ago today. Until I read Gary's post, I didn't even realize it was a year old.

 

[xtm]

Killer landscape captures... amazing, man. Amazing.

 

[Hookup]

Doug, The photos are definitely story-telling and beautiful. I am wondering if you could help me out seeing the begining and end of two photos (below). I'm wondering if you would take the time to post the "raw" image (converted to jpg and scaled down of course) so I can get a sense of what came out of the camera and what post-processing was done. I find that I learn a great deal by seeing the raw, which in some cases is what the eye-saw, and comparing it to the final, which is what the mind saw.

Thanks,
Tim
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[Gary Majchrzak]

It's funny that you picked now to bump this as I made that trip in conjunction with the NANPA Photography Summit, which I'm at again now.

I was totally unaware of this fact.
Ditto with the date being exactly one year later. Strange coincidences, eh?

It must be time for me to plan another road trip. I can feel it tugging at me...

 

[PSam]

Learning to fight the urge to shoot under poor conditions will go along way towards improving your own photography.

That's great advice. Now if I can only figure out how to follow it!

 

[BlueCorn]

Doug, The photos are definitely story-telling and beautiful. I am wondering if you could help me out seeing the begining and end of two photos (below). I'm wondering if you would take the time to post the "raw" image (converted to jpg and scaled down of course) so I can get a sense of what came out of the camera and what post-processing was done. I find that I learn a great deal by seeing the raw, which in some cases is what the eye-saw, and comparing it to the final, which is what the mind saw.

I'm still at the conference so I don't have access to those files currently. I can tell you that you've got it a back backwards. Generally speaking the camera does a poor job of recording what the eye sees. Our eyes can see 12-16 stops of light, the camera can only see 5-6. While I certainly added some moodiness to that DV image my goal, in processing, is to make the image match what I saw more closely.

The first image, of Tower Butte, was hardly touched in post but I was using a 2 stop graduated neutral density filter to darken the top of the frame a bit while shooting.

Cheers