rexjones
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john_arsenault
December 16, 2016
i am not the photographer, just another person giving it a guess as to location. to me, it looks like the area just south of Norris Campground, which is located roughly in the northwest portion of the park. i am going on memory alone, so i could easily be wrong.
rexjones
December 16, 2016
This is the Nez Pierce Creek. So about 3 miles north of Grand Prismatic Spring along HWY 191.
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Location
I took this photo standing on a bridge, smack dab in the middle of Yellowstone National Park.Time
This was taken early afternoon.Lighting
Well, as you can see, we had some pretty epic cloudy skies going! Nothing fancy there, just that nice soft, cloudy light! :)Equipment
Gear: Camera: Canon 5D Mark 2 Lens: Canon EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM No tripod, this was a handheld shot. I just ramped up the shutter speed to account for any movement on my part.Inspiration
I saw the buffalo exit the tree and I know I'd have a good shot, so we hurried and parked the car and I booked it back to the bridge and waited for him to get in place!Editing
Some, mostly dodging and burning. I wanted the drama in the sky to play out a bit more than what came straight out of the camera. Not much beyond that.In my camera bag
I almost always have a wide angle lens, for the larger landscapes. I also always have my 70-200, it's the perfect lens for framing scenes like this one.Feedback
Be prepared to MOVE! Sometimes you can see a shot developing and you don't want to miss it by being in the wrong place for when it happens. It also helps if you know in your head what you want the scene to look like in post, that makes it super easy to get your camera settings dialed in. Since this was a landscape scene, I didn't want a bunch of depth of field, so I closed my aperture down as much as possible and adjusted the shutter speed + ISO to match.