Jer & Min Photography

I decided to take and publish this photo due largely to it being an excuse to try out multi-photo stitching.

I’m admittedly not a major post processing guy, I do a little, but I don’t spend much time working at it.  I have however, been very interested in panoramas.  I decided to see how well freeware software would work.  This is an example of a multi shot image stitched together using Hugin. I’m pretty impressed with its abilities in manual mode.  I tried originally to follow the assistant and have it do it for me, but it didn’t turn out well at all.

This shot was taken the first day we were at Zion National Park.  This was taken at the Canyon Overlook.  It is an absolutely breathtaking view of the canyon.  We arrived shortly before sunset and were treated to absolutely stunning skies.

I took this with two cokin filters and I feel it brought out the feeling and mood of the vista.

Yes, it is 3:30pm on a Sunday and we are all in our pajamas.  Today’s challenge was to shoot up.  The sky looked nice, but I wanted to put a little something extra in the foreground so I had Brinci and Toby hop in the picture.  I took a few of both of them together, but Toby has such sensitive eyes that he spent the entire time squinting.  For that reason, I selected a photo without him in it today.

The past few days we’ve had quite a bit of stormy weather.  Unfortunately, the storm clouds were slow and unfeatured which made for very uninteresting skies.  Tonight the storm broke and the sky got much more interesting.  This shot is the last of the storm as it passed on to the Uintas to the East of our house.

EXIF: Canon PowerShot s410, 1/640 sec, f/3.5

I received a tip from Wouter Brandsma who knows a thing or two about black and white landscape photography about keeping the aperture higher with compact cameras, this is my attempt at following that.  Seriously, check out his site.

Min and I live in a very beautiful area near the Uinta mountains.  Currently, in Kamas, the fall colors are out in full glory.  To add to the beauty we have had some very nice thunderstorms over the past few days.  Yesterday in a slight break in the storms, some light splashed upon the mountain East of our house.  The mountain with it’s colored leaves lit up in an amazing way.  I stepped out the front door, leaned against the side of the house to steady my shot and made this photograph.

EXIF: Canon PowerShot S410, 1/125 sec, f/11

This past Saturday, my wife, kids, and I climbed to the top of Bald Mountain near Mirror Lake in the Uintas East of Kamas, UT.  Bald Mountain is just under 12,000 feet in elevation.  When we began at the trail head, there were a number of other peaks higher than us.  As we climbed up, we slowly passed each one until we were at the top.

EXIF: Canon PowerShot S410, 1/640 sec, f7.1