It’s been a busy day – portrait session in Sundance – those photos will be posted later after I edit them. As I was waiting I took a few snapshots of the landscape. I then turned this into black and white using Silver Efex Pro. Although I did some more edits first in Viveza 2 before going into Silver Efex Pro to turn it into a black and white.
Sundance Landscape
Sunset on the Great Salt Lake
To lens flare or not to lens flare – that is the question. I did try to clone stamp out the lens flare and I decided not to. Could I? Yes. Would it look perfect – maybe not. I had edited the colors and the contrast before I started clone stamping and that is my mistake. I should have done it first then do the fancy effects.
The Great Salt Lake is really unique – it can really smell. Today, no bad smell. I was out there photographing a portrait session and after the photo shoot I decided I would grab my daily photograph. What better than landscape? And at least today it wasn’t something lame like food or something easy and thoughtless.
The photos from the portraits will come later – I will be editing like crazy this weekend. Should be fun. My iPhone, some podcasts, a few audiobooks and I am set. Oh and some caffeine – to help me work faster 
Early morning photographers catch the early moose
Saturday morning came early for me last week. I woke up at 4am to meet up with other photographers from Photowalk Utah. We were going to be photogaphing the Albion Basin up past Alta Ski Lodge in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Starbucks isn’t even open that early in the morning.
And during the photographing we found a moose – some other photographers came across a mother moose and her calf. Moose are big and you don’t want to scare or threaten them – they can be mean. This moose is only the second I have ever seen in nature.
It is time for breakfast
Photographing nature is completely different than portraiture – you live and die by your tripod. And I had brought my large tripod. I should have gone with my carbon fiber tripod. Oh, and I should have brought my gloves – at 5 am in the mountains it was pretty cold. My hands were numb.
And you can click any of the photographs to see the full gallery of images on my SmugMug.
I was in Moab in early March to watch my friends run in the Moab Half Marathon and Moab 5 Mile. I will be posting some of those photos soon, but I wanted to post a landscape photo that I really like.
Most landscape photos are landscape – this one is portrait. I just thought it cool.
