Final

Canyon Overlook, Zion National Park

In Lightroom, I cropped the photo to take out some distractions. I used a gradient filter on the sky to darken and increase the contrast and saturation of the clouds. I used a gradient filter on the foreground to lighten the landscape and increase contrast/saturation.
Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 28mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/5.6
Tv: 1/100 sec.
Flash: No flash.

Bighorn Sheep, Zion National Park
In Lightroom, I cropped the top of the picture to remove distractions that were on the rock to focus on the sheep more. I increased contrast, saturation, and clarity.
Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 105mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/5.6
Tv: 1/50 sec.
Flash: No flash.

Observation Point, Zion National Park

In Lightroom, I used the gradient tool to darken the sky and increased the contrast/clarity. I also increased the contrast/saturation with the whole picture and lightened the shadows a bit to make the foreground lighter.
Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 28mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/9
Tv: 1/250 sec.
Flash: No flash.

 

Yellowstone Falls

In Lightroom I cropped the photo considerably to focus on the waterfall. I also straightened the photo. I increased the highlights and clarity to make the waterfall brighter and more defined and increased the saturation. I used the settings below to get a longer exposure.
Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 117mm
ISO: 100
Av: f/22
Tv: 1/2 sec.
Flash: No flash.

Yellowstone River

In Lightroom, I cropped the bottom of the photo to focus more on the river and not the trees. I increased the contrast, decreased the highlights, increased clarity and saturation. I used a gradient tool on the sky to darken it and increased the blues. I used the clone tool to remove some spots in the sky from dirt on a helicopter window.
Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 28mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/8
Tv: 1/200 sec.
Flash: No flash.

 

Yellowstone River
In Lightroom, I increased the contrast, saturation, and clarity. I decreased the highlights because they were too bright.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 30mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/9
Tv: 1/250 sec.
Flash: No flash.

Mystic Lake Wetlands

In Lightroom, I cropped the bottom of the photo. I also increased the saturation, contrast, clarity and used a gradient filter to darken the sky.
Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 28mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/9
Tv: 1/250 sec.
Flash: No flash.

Zion National Park Sunset
In Lightroom, I changed the white balance because the whole photo looked yellow. I used the brush to select the hill to make it brighter because it was very under exposed. I increased the contrast, clarity, and saturation. I used the brush tool to also select the sky to darken it and increase the saturation.
Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 35mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/3.5
Tv: 1/30 sec.
Flash: No flash.

 

September Morn

In Lightroom, I decreased the exposure a little, increased contrast, decreased highlights, increased clarity and saturation. I used a gradient tool to darken the sky. I used 1/500 sec. exposure because it was very sunny.
Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 28mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/3.5
Tv: 1/500 sec.
Flash: No flash.

Lake Fork Trail, Beartooth Mountains
In Lightroom, I cropped the photo because there was a lot of clutter in the foreground and I wanted to focus more on the mountains. I increased clarity, contrast, saturation, darkened highlights and used a gradient filter on the sky to darken it and increased the saturation in the sky.
Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 28mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/8
Tv: 1/200 sec.
Flash: No flash.

East Mesa Trail, Zion National Park

In Lighroom, I cropped the bottom of the picture to remove some of the trees from the picture. I increased the contrast and saturation and used a gradient filter on the sky to make the clouds more defined by increasing the contrast and clarity.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 60mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/10
Tv: 1/400 sec.
Flash: No flash.

Fall LeafIn Lightroom, I increased the exposure because it was a little under exposed in the original photo. I also increased the saturation, clarity and contrast to really make that leaf stand out.

Camera: Canon 7D

Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 43mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/5.6
Tv: 1/320 sec.
Flash: No flash.

East Mesa Trail, Zion National Park
In Lightroom, I cropped the photo so that the ridge was the focal point. I used a gradient filter on the sky to decrease the exposure because the sky was over exposed, I also increased the clarity and contrast to make the clouds more defined. I used a gradient filter on the bottom to increase the exposure of the trees. I used a brush tool to make the ridge more defined and increased the saturation.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 95mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/8
Tv: 1/320 sec.
Flash: No flash.

Zion National Park Sunset

In Lightroom, I cropped the bottom of the photo and darkened the landscape to focus on the sunset and remove the distractions. I used the spot removal tool to remove electric poles. I increased the contrast and saturation to make the colors of the sunset stand out more.
Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 130mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/5.6
Tv: 1/160 sec.
Flash: No flash.

The Narrows, Zion National Park

In Lighroom, I cropped the photo to focus on the carren and there was also a lot of people in this area so I had to crop some people out of the photo.
Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 135mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/5.6
Tv: 1/200 sec.
Flash: No flash.

 

Observation Point Trail, Zion National Park
In Lightroom, I cropped the photo, increased contrast and saturation. I decreased the highlights because they were blown out a bit.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 28mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/3.5
Tv: 1/25 sec.
Flash: No flash.

Mystic Lake, Montana

In Lightroom, I decreased the exposure because the photo was a little over exposed. I also increased contrast, clarity and saturation. I used a gradient tool to darken the highlights, increase clarity, increase contrast in the sky because it was overexposed.

Camera: Canon 7D

Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 28mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/8
Tv: 1/200 sec.
Flash: No flash.

Lizard, Zion National Park

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 135mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/5.6
Tv: 1/30 sec.
Flash: No flash.

 

Observation Point Trail, Zion National Park

In Lightroom, I increased the clarity and contrast to make the layers in the rock stand out. I also increased the saturation and decreased highlights.
Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 28mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/5
Tv: 1/100 sec.
Flash: No flash.

The Virgin River, Zion National Park

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 28mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/8
Tv: 1/200 sec.
Flash: No flash.

Zion National Park

In Lightroom, I decreased the temperature a little to reduce the yellows in the photo. I increased the exposure, contrast, highlights, clarity, and saturation. I used a gradient filter to darken and increase the saturation in the sky.
Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 56mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/9
Tv: 1/320 sec.
Flash: No flash.

Mountain Fog

In Lightroom, I changed the white balance which decreased the temperature and increased the tint. I decreased the exposure and increased the contrast, clarity, and saturation.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 30mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/16
Tv: 1/800 sec.
Flash: No flash.

Observation Point Trail, Zion National Park

In Lightroom, I changed the white balance which the temperature was decreased and tints were increased by 8. I increased the contrast, shadows, clarity and saturation.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 28mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/3.5
Tv: 1/30 sec.
Flash: No flash.

In Lightroom I cropped the photo considerably to make the ground squirrel the focal point. I decreased the temperature and increased the tint. I increased the contrast, clarity and saturation.
Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 28-135mm
Focal Length: 135mm
ISO: 400
Av: f/5.6
Tv: 1/320 sec.

Taken with an IPhone 5s

Taken with an IPhone 5s

Taken with a IPhone 5s

Flash: No flash.

Critique 2

ISO 100, f/22, 1/2 sec.

 

ISO 100, f/22, 1/2 sec.

Critique 2

 A Zion sunset

A juvenile bighorn sheep

Critique 3

This was taken over the Yellowstone River from a helicopter north of Laurel.

Settings: ISO 400, F-stop f/8, 1/200 sec, 28mm.

Canyon Overlook, Zion National Park
Settings: ISO 400, F-stop f/5.6, 1/1000 sec, 28mm.

Observation Point, Zion National Park.
Settings: ISO 400, F-stop f/9, 1/250 sec, 28mm.

Peter Lik Photography

While I was in Las Vegas, I stopped by Peter Lik's gallery. Here are some of my favorite photos taken by him:

David J. West Photography

While I visited Zion National Park last week, I stopped into David J. West's gallery. Here are a few of my favorite pictures that he has taken:

Jimmy Chin

I'm going to blog about Jimmy Chin, an adventure photographer, because I really enjoy all of his pictures.

http://www.jimmychin.com/

Rules of Dominance

Sharpness is more attractive than blur.

Light is more attractive than dark.

Red (or reddish-orange) is more attractive than yellow.

Lake Fork Trail

Last weekend I took a trip up to September Morn Lake on the Lake Fork Trail

Yellowstone National Park

Over labor day weekend, I went to Yellowstone to go camping in the back country near Yellowstone Lake. Here are some of the pictures I took with my Iphone.

 The sunset over Yellowstone Lake.

 A grizzly bear track.