Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Bryce Canyon in winter (Sunday pic thread)

Finally got some shots uploaded from our recent trip down to Bryce.

You can see the full gallery at my website (larger images too)

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Great photo's of some beautiful country. The rock formations look almost like skyscrapers from some ancient, long lost civilization.

Nice!

Very sharp photos -- what lenses? Inquiring minds want to know!

John

Dang that's some rugged country. Pretty tho.

Wow.....................

Geez Matt ya got me droolin' all over my keyboard.....AGAIN! NOT to worry! I git this REAL cool B&W winterscape just to my left above me and it is kick-ass good! Hey it has YOUR moniker on it!! Go figger

John, these were all taken with a Sony A700 + Tamron 17-55 f2.8 lens.

I have a Sony A900 + Zeiss ZA 24-70 f2.8 scheduled for delivery on Tues (yeah!) and a maiden voyage planned for next weekend. I have high hopes for it....

Great pictures!

You've got not only some great scenery in Utah, but some fine photographers to capture it.

http://s640.photobucket.com/albums/uu124/Robertkempton/?albumview=grid

I know the fellow that took the pics above as UtahRob on the forums. Also excellent work.

A digital Anson!

THANKS, for the WONDERFUL photo's.

thanks guys!

ET - I'm trying to work on some BWs from this series as I get time.

Nice stuff. Did you use polarizer or warming filters, or are all of these au natural? (I'll be hitting Arches and Canyonlands NPs in a week).

these would be with a Hoya Circular Polarizer. Makes a huge difference - I wouldn't go without them for daytime shooting.

Have fun!

Yeah, I thought that sky looked polarized. The clouds pop very nicely. That is one of two filters I wouldn't go afield without. The other is a .6 graduated neutral density filter. Very handy for fixing blown out skies. Another nice trick I've learned with digital cameras, shooting red-rock formations, is to set your white balance to "cloudy." It warms everything up nicely without the need for a warming filter -- but I leave it set at auto if people are in the photo to avoid making them look like boiled lobsters.

I might try that this weekend. To date, I've mostly used the CP and split-toning / temperature in Lightroom

Got any tips for Arches or Canyonlands?

Re. setting WB to "cloudy," that works well for me shooting a Nikon D300. I also tend to shoot a lot with saturation set to "Vivid" plus one. I photograph all my own magazine stories, and most of the magazines I've sold to prefer the warmer, highly saturated images. That may not work for everyone, obviously.

for canyonlands, I'd look into The Grand gallery / Horseshoe canyon / newspaper rock for a little different aspect of the area.

For Arches NP, most of the high points can be seen in a two day stay. Keep in mind most of the arches are either morning or evening shots. wrong time = horrid backlighting

best times to photograph specific features (bottom of the page)

Also be sure, it there is time, to go to sunrise at Deadhorse Point state park, just north of Moab!

Wonderful Pictures Matt

Thanks! We'll be there for the better part of a week, so I hope to capture as much as possible from all three locations. Will go for those sunrise shots while the wife is still sleeping 'cause I know she will try to hike me to death during the day.

it'll be getting hot there now during mid-day ! and there is no shade either.....

take lots of water!