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Grand Falls in Golden Light

Scott / April 7, 2011 / 20 comments

I am really having a hard time coming up with anything to say about this image.  There are a few places I have been that you really just need to experience to truly appreciate the power and beauty that surrounds you while you are there.  Grand Falls during run off is one of those places.

I hope you enjoy this image, and if you do, please click on it to see a large version of it.  Please stay tuned here as I have at least 1 and maybe 2 more images from Grand Falls that I plan on posting.  Much like this image, the remaining ones will be from different times during the sunset.  Hopefully I will have something more meaningful to say about those images.

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Yellow Jeep at Grand Falls

Scott / April 3, 2011 / 18 comments

When we were out shooting at Grand Falls yesterday Rick Young handed me his fisheye lens and told me that the images I made with it would be my favorite of the day.  While I haven’t worked my way through all of my images yet, I think there is a good chance that Rick was right. 

This image is from the first set of brackets that I made with his lens.  It is an HDR generated from a set of 9 brackets shot 1 stop apart.  Taking Rick’s advice, I shot these at f22.  If you use your gear the way I use mine and you stop things down to f22, you end up having to spend a lot of time removing blemishes from all the dust on your sensor, but it is nothing that the spot healing brush can’t take care of.

You might have to look very closely to see why I called this Yellow Jeep at Grand Falls. :-)

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Grand Falls – Arizona’s Best Kept Secret

Scott / April 3, 2011 / 9 comments

I moved to Arizona in 1988 and thought I had done a pretty good job of seeing most of what this state had to offer. I can’t believe how wrong I was.  Until just a few weeks ago I had no idea that Grand Falls even existed.  When my friend Mike Olbinski suggested putting together a road trip to go up and shoot this wonder, I jumped at the opportunity.

I really wish I could say that everything went perfectly on this trip.  I had to skip the morning part of the shoot due to a work situation, and when I started importing the images after getting home I realized that I had left the ISO on my Nikon D200 a tad higher than I would have preferred, this seems to have become a habit with me.  I was able to meet up with everyone in the afternoon, and the ISO was not so high that I don’t have usable images, but even if I hadn’t come home with a single good image, it would still have been an amazing trip just to experience this place.

I do have to thank my friend Rick Young for lending me his 10 stop ND filter for this image.  I would never have been able to make this image without it and I think there is going to be one in my bag in the near future.

As always, click on the image to see a larger version, and stay tuned as I will have many more images from the trip to share.

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