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Bonneville Salt Flat Sunset



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cameraCanon EOS 5D Mark II

settings Aperture f/4.0 ISO 100 Shutter 1/100 

upload_dateMar, 2013

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11 Comments |
jaymekay
 
jaymekay April 03, 2013
AMAZING SHOT!
mistyvkirsch
 
mistyvkirsch April 03, 2013
Congrats
tsambaproductions
 
tsambaproductions April 04, 2013
congrats
thomaslhoest
thomaslhoest April 04, 2013
Thanks Everybody!
jleiweke
 
jleiweke April 11, 2013
Congrats!
clemages
 
clemages April 18, 2013
Very Nice
Claudius
 
Claudius April 27, 2013
wow
great shot
mylene_ralph
 
mylene_ralph July 28, 2013
Beautiful.
Kazza60
 
Kazza60 August 09, 2013
congratulations another awesome compositiom
MaryAnne306 PRO+
 
MaryAnne306 September 25, 2013
Fantastic!
Timbo
 
Timbo March 02, 2014
Outstanding, just outstanding
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MaryAnne306 August 27, 2014
Amazing shot. The reflection is so perfect it really looks like an island floating in space. Have you thought about entering this in the Fairytale Landscapes contest?

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#sunset #utah #bonneville #salt #flats #reflexion #mountain #water
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Location

I was doing a road trip accros the US in 2013 and around march I was in the area of Salt Lake City and the Great Salt Lake. I spend one night sleeping in the middle of the lake in my car. The perfect reflexion that you get from the thin layer of water over the salted lake makes the earth disappear into the sky. The up becomes the down and gives you the impression of to float.

Time

At dusk around 7-8PM

Lighting

The sunset gives a deep blue and purple color to the whole picture. Amazing colors!

Equipment

Canon 5D Mark II with a 24-105 lens from Canon. I used my tripod, a Vanguard Alta Pro 263AB 100 with an SBH100 head.

Inspiration

The perfect reflexion was really calling for a picture.

Editing

I used lightroom 5 to ad a bit more contrast in the lights. But otherwise there is not a lot of post-processing

In my camera bag

Canon 5D Mark II, Canon lenses 24-105, 50mm 1.4 and a 75-300. All of that with my ND Filters, my remote control and my tripod. Everything packed in a Mountainsmith Borealis bag.

Feedback

To get that perfect reflection you have to go there during the winter otherwise, their will be no water and thus no reflexion :) Spend the afternoon there and impregnate yourself in that amazing atmosphere. If you are lucky, enjoy a night there! Totally worth it to spend a quite night there and to wake up there

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