New Image – “Wildflowers, Albion Basin, Utah”

ALBION BASIN, LITTLE COTTONWOOD CANYON, UTAH

Ah, yes.  Spring moving into summer.  With Mother’s Day just around the corner, it seems appropriate to feature a new image with more wildflowers than you can shake a stick at.  Last year, I was able to work on a project for a Utah-based firm and took some images of the wildflowers in Alta, Utah.  The mosquitos were pretty powerful, but the imagery in front of me was much more powerful.  The last light on the towers above Albion Basin was a nice touch to the foreground of yellow spray.  I always focus a few feet in front of me or about 1/3rd of the way back into the scene, depending on my aperture setting.  Somewhere between f/11 – f/16 is pretty tasty to get most things in focus in a scene like this.  The aperture f/22 certainly does work, but most people will admit (if they are excruciating about it) that it lowers the focus and contrast ever so slightly.  The 24 mm TS lens by Canon is really fantastic…and sharp.

Camera: Canon 5DMarkII
Lens: Canon 24 mm Mark II Tilt-Shift Lens
Settings: ISO200, f/11, 0.6 seconds
Filters:  Circular Polarizer, Singh-Ray 4-stop Reverse Graduated Neutral Density, Singh-Ray 3-stop Graduated Neutral Density
Other: Manfrotto Tripod, Cable Release

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Alta’s Albion Basin Sunrise in Summer

When I awakened this a.m.  at five o’clock and then drove up and then hiked Albion Basin with a friend of mine, I didn’t envision the color explosion that was to happen high on the west side of Albion Basin in Alta Ski Resort in Utah.  The wildflowers have been awesome fed by a rainy season, which created some of the colors you see.  Contrary to popular opinion, the shot is made in camera with a circular polarizer, and three Singh-Ray Graduated Neutral Density filters, a 4-stop Reverse Graduated Neutral Density, a 3-stop Soft-step Graduated Neutral Density, and a 2-stop Soft Step Graduated Neutral Density.  Then just get your exposure correct, with some minor movement of the hand-held neutral densities up and down during exposure.

Enjoy.

"Albion Basin at Sunrise" Run of 45 prints. © Joel Addams

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