National Park

Mammoth Hot Springs

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Mammoth Hot Springs one of the many amazing places in Yellowstone, unfortunately I didn’t get to spend more the one evening at this location. But it is definitely a spot I’ll get back to, when I get to visit Yellowstone again.

From Blue to Yellow over Grey

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Ain’t got that much to say, other than I’m amazed of the colors in some of the small lakes in Yellowstone.

  • Aperture: ƒ/11
  • Camera: NIKON D300
  • Taken: 24 July, 2010
  • Focal length: 24mm
  • ISO: 200
  • Shutter speed: 1/500s

A Long Time Ago…

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As you properly guessed I fouled around with the Focal Point 2 plug-in from Onone on this photo.
I’m getting more and more found of that little piece of software.

Drive by in the Full Moon Light

Drive by in the Full Moon Light

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On my way back from the Yellowstone park to my hotel in Silver gate,just outside the Northeast gate of the park – I’d been out making some sunset photos - I stopped on this parking lot cause I wanted to try to make a photo in the light from the full moon, it was so dark that I hardly couldn’t see anything, but I turned up the shutter speed  to 30 seconds and an aperture of 5,6, which made the photo to dark, but after a few exposures I ended up at the settings you see below.

And right as I had pushed the shutter to make the final photo, this car came driving – there hadn’t been a single car driving by all the time i was trying to find the right settings – I almost stopped the camera in the middle of the exposure, but I didn’t, and I very glad that I didn’t, cause the photo above is what came out of the car driving by.

I really like that it looks like the road is on fire, and that the flames are crawling up the cliffs.

What do you think?

I made more photos that night in the moon light, but I’ll post those later on.

El Capitan and the Moon

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I made this one in January this year, it was right after I had spend two and half weeks driving around the west coast with my parents and younger brother. I had dropped them off at the San Francisco airport and continued on to Yosemite, where I had planed to stay for a few days before I had to catch my plane home.

I had been to the park in the summer of 2010, but because of some personal stuff, I didn’t really see and enjoy it, so this was sort of a catch up on what I had missed visit.

In the End it Didn’t Really Matter

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Will You be Mine

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I was driving south in Yellowstone national park, cause I wanted to get some nice sunset photos at the Grand Prismatic Spring, but I soon found out that I was running late, and the sun was gonna be gone before I would even get close to where I wanted to be, but that’s the great thing about Yellowstone, there are – almost –  no dull places to make photos. So as I was driving along I spotted this nice view from the side of the road, I pulled over, got my gear from the back of the car, and walk a few meters in to the forest, and this is what I got.

It’s a HDR made out of 5 RAW exposures, as usual I ran it through PhotoMatrix and cleaned it up for ghosting and the likes in Photoshop, and for the final look I used Color Efx Pro from Nik Software.

  • Aperture: ƒ/13
  • Camera: NIKON D3S
  • Taken: 22 July, 2010
  • Focal length: 155mm
  • ISO: 200
  • Shutter speed: 1/13s