The Grant Tetons
On the drive back from Jenny Lake I notice these beautiful clouds above the Tetons and stopped at one of roadside lookouts. While everyone else was shooting str...
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On the drive back from Jenny Lake I notice these beautiful clouds above the Tetons and stopped at one of roadside lookouts. While everyone else was shooting strait on I mounted my D600 on my tripod and shot at a northern angle of around a quarter turn. Using the Nikon 14-24 2.8 wide angle lens I captured three exposures and blended them with Photomatix to create this HDR image.
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Location
This image was captured in Grand Teton National park in Wyoming in the early summer of 2013.. After a morning photo session at Lake Jenny we stopped at several look out points on the way back to Jackson and this was the best one.Time
It was early afternoon, just after lunch. Not usually a good time for landscape images but there was enough clouds to keep the sun glare in check.Lighting
The clouds helped create of enough shadows to make the landscape interesting and keep the sun glare to a minimum.Equipment
This was taken with a Nikon D600 full frame camera using the famous Nikon 12-24 2.8 wide angle lens. It was mounted on a manfrotto tripod and the shutter was released by the Nikon wireless remote.Inspiration
I live in the flat coastal state of New Jersey so the Grand Teton mountains was a very different inexperience for me and very inspiring to use my camera to capture these memories.Editing
I started in Aperture and used the Photomatix plug-in to blend three bracketed images to create a HDR image.In my camera bag
For this trip my bag contained the Nikon D600 body, Nikon 12-24 2.8 wide angle, Nikon 28-300 4.0 Zoom, Nikon 35 2.0 prime and Nikon 50 1.8 prime lens. Manfrotto tripod, Manfrotto monopod and Nikon wireless remote shutter release.Feedback
The weather and sky changes quickly so get your image when you see it, don't plan on coming back later. Make sure you have a good wide angle lens, it's the most important lens for the Grand Tetons. I used the zoom quite a bit also but hardly took the prime's out of the bag. The full frame camera was a good choice for this trip, even though I' moving toward mirror-less camera's now. I mostly shot in Aperture priority mode at F9 and above.
