Saturday, September 17, 2011

Golden Eagle?



It was as big as a turkey vulture, but I am really sure it is not a turkey vulture. Not the best photos, but I think it's a gold eagle or an immature bald eagle.

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Arches Un-Wound

This is not the best composite arch, but the tourists show what's going on. The camera is held like a key, and turned 180 while repeated shots are taken (Base A, overhead, Base B). The trick is that the screen is out of sight the whole time, so you have to guesstimate the coverage of each shot.

This is one of the Double Arches. It turned out well in part because I adjusted the exposure en-route so that the overhead shots were not silhouetted.

This is Delicate Arch. I think it's cool how the sen is shading one end, and lighting the opposite.


This is actually about what landscape arch looks like from the trail. Long and skinny. But I wanted to make a composite of it anyway.

Here's the same trick on a tree, although the branches don't come back down to the ground. I am laying on the ground with my head toward the trunk. I am closer to the tree than it looks, because the image has to deal with rapidly changing scale.