Gone to See America 2006 Driving Tour. Day 5: Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming; Badlands National Park, South Dakota.
Devils Tower National Monument. Image taken with a Nikon D200 camera and 80-400 mm VR lens (ISO 100, 200 mm, f/5.6, 1/400 sec). JPG image processed with Capture One Pro, and converted to B&W with NIK/Google Silver Efex Pro.
The freaky thing is that I watched “Close Encounters” at the motel I stayed at the night before, and hadn’t remembered that part of the movie was filmed at Devils Tower.
Devils Tower National Monument. Image taken with a Nikon D200 camera and 80-400 mm VR lens (ISO 100, 200 mm, f/5.6, 1/400 sec). JPG image processed with Capture One Pro, and converted to B&W with NIK/Google Silver Efex Pro. (David J Mathre)
Gone to See America 2006 Driving Tour. Day 8: Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
I spent the night in Jackson Hole and got up early to see Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park before going to Yellowstone National Park. I remember that it was very cold at Jenny Lake with a little bit of ice just at the shore. Even at 18 mm with the D200 camera (equivalent to 27 mm on a full frame camera) you could not get the entire view across the lake with one image. I took several images because I was told that there was software that could stitch several images together for a panorama. I didn’t have the software when I took the images. Back then I only had a flimsy tripod, no remote shutter, and my fingers were getting really cold.
What is right or wrong with these two images? You need to open and look at the images in a full screen mode. One panorama was done with Photoshop CS5 and the other with an early version of either AutoPano or PTGui. If I have time later today I will redo a panorama using newer/current versions of the software.
Early Morning Jenny Lake Reflections Panorama. Composite of nine images taken with a Nikon D200 camera and 18-75 mm kit lens (ISO 100, 18 mm, f/7.1, 1/180 sec). Images processed with Nikon Capture NX2 and composite created with Photoshop CS5. (David J Mathre)Early Morning Jenny Lake Reflections Panorama. Composite of nine images taken with a Nikon D200 camera and 18-75 mm kit lens (ISO 100, 18 mm, f/7.1, 1/180 sec). Images processed with Nikon Capture NX2 and composite created with PTGui or AutoPano Giga. (David J Mathre)
Gone to See America 2006 Driving Tour. Day 7: Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
Two weeks before my “Gone to See America 2006 Trip” I bought my first DSLR camera (a Nikon D200, based on a recommendation from my brother) and two lenses. I admit I didn’t know how to use the camera, and the manual was not much help. As soon as I got back from the trip I knew I needed to learn a lot more. Even back then I could tell that there was good and really bad information on the web. Tom Hogan’s D200 book was much more helpful than the Nikon manual supplied with the camera.
Today I am including a before and after image from that trip. When I went on the “Gone to See America 2006 trip” I didn’t know any better, and only saved JPG images — which meant there was much less information available later for reprocessing. Since then, I only saved the RAW image data. You need to look at the full images to see the difference of nine years of better programs, and better knowledge of how to reprocess images (and this was using the out of the camera JPG image, not the full RAW image data which I didn’t have). I have to admit since then I have saved every image — good, bad, and ugly. You learn from the bad and ugly. Never know when a new program will be developed to convert it to something useful. You also get ideas if you ever go back to the same location.
I hope to hear from viewers if they do see a difference in these images.
Jenny Lake and Reflections. Grand Teton National Park. Image taken with a Nikon D200 camera and 18-70 mm kit lens (ISO 100, 18 mm, f/5.6, 1/250 sec). Original JPG processed with Nikon Capture NX2 (David J Mathre)Jenny Lake and Reflections. Grand Teton National Park. Image taken with a Nikon D200 camera and 18-70 mm kit lens (ISO 100, 18 mm, f/5.6, 1/250 sec). Original JPG processed with Capture One Pro, Photoshop CC, and NIK Color Efex Pro (David J Mathre)
Gone to See America 2007 Road Trip. Seventh Annual Nikonians Photography Adventure Trip. Day 1: Grand Teton National Park.
Why are nine large birds flying north past the Grand Tetons in late September? At this distance I can’t tell if they are geese, cranes, or swans. My guess is Sandhill Cranes. Image taken with a Nikon D2xs and 200-400 mm VR lens (ISO 100, 200 mm, f/8,, 1/180 sec).
Nine large birds flying north past the Grand Tetons in late September Image taken with a Nikon D2xs and 200-400 mm VR lens (ISO 100, 200 mm, f/8,, 1/180 sec). (David J Mathre)
Gone to See America 2007 Road Trip. Nikonians ANPAT 7 Day 6: Yellowstone National Park.
Quoth the raven, “Nevermore” Edgar Allan Poe. Image taken with a Nikon D2xs and 200 mm f/2 VR lens (ISO 100, 200 mm, f/2, 1/100 sec). Image converted to B&W with NIK Silver Efex Pro.
Quoth the raven, “Nevermore” Edgar Allan Poe. Image taken with a Nikon D2xs camera and 200 mm f/2 VR lens (ISO 100, 200 mm, f/2, 1/100 sec). Image converted to B&W with NIK Silver Efex Pro. (David J Mathre)
