Tags
ball head, Benro, Benro A298M8 Tripod, bracket, bracketing, camera, camera controls, Camera Mode, Capitol Building, Capitol Hill, clouds, Cold Front, D7000, D7000 Blog, D7000 HDR, D7000 Promote COntrol, Digital Camera, Digital Photography, Downtown, DSLR Modes, Ensign Peak, foothill, HDR, HDR Panorama, Howard Jackman, Learning D7000 controls.Camera Controls, LensProToGo.com 52 week challenge, LPTG, LPTG.com 52 week Challenge, LPTG52, micro burst, Mountains, Nature HDR, New D7000 user, new DSLR, Nikon, Nikon Blog, Nikon D7000, Nikon D7000 Benro Tripod, Nikon D7000 Controls, Nikon D7000 From Snapshots to great shots, Nikon HDR, Oquirrh, overlook, Pano, Panorama, photog, Photography, Photomatix, Photoshop, print, print sale, Promote Control, remote trigger, Rocly Mountains, Salt Lake City, skies, sl valley, SLC, SLC valley, Spring, state building, Storm, stormy sky, sumoetx, Sunset, tog, togs, urbex HDR, Using a Nikon D7000, Utah, utah HDR, Valley, verga, view, vista, Wasatch, Wasatch Front, Weather, Wide angle, Wide angle HDR, wind screen, Windy
“If you don’t like the weather wait 5 minutes…” Never is this statement more true than Utah in Spring. In the space of only a few days we can go from shoveling snow to 90 degrees and absolutely everything in between.
To show this I decided to go to high ground and shoot wide (plus it gives you all a break from my long string of recent macros.) Located behind the State Capitol building in the foothills north of Salt Lake City is a 5,414 ft (1,650 m) knobby hill named Ensign Peak. It’s a short easy hike to a spectacular view, but we were short on time as sunset was approaching fast so we stopped at the “Vista Overlook” a small level area about 50 meters/yards up the trail that gives a view that’s still quite amazing. While setting up the canyon winds really started to pickp up. and my poor wife soon became a human windscreen using her open jacket to block the wind as I started cranking out 7 frame brackets in a large 180 degree Panorama.
I think the effort was worth it, Thanks Honey!
Salt Lake Valley at Sunset – 7 frame Panorama each frame a 7 bracket HDR using the Promote Control.
A typical Spring weather pattern was over the valley, you can see that the spacing of each “event” is about 5-10 minutes apart depending on the wind. This happens all the time here and we just learn to roll with it.
Sadly as nice as this is it should have been an epic sunset, but it faded as clouds rolled in to cover the Sun just before it would have lit these clouds up like no other.
Regardless I hope you enjoyed the view!
Happy Shooting!
Howard
