Nov. 2008, Snow Canyon, UT

[RobinFinderson]

Great photo. The bottom one reminds me of a Peter Lik photograph.

Thanks. Peter Lik has quite the life, no? I would love to be doing that for a living (maybe I can!).

[LiveCoug]

Nice shots! Snow Canyon is a cool place.

[The Rambam]

Amazing pictures.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Thanks. Peter Lik has quite the life, no? I would love to be doing that for a living (maybe I can!).

If you do I would like to buy one before I have to pay what I paid for my Lik.

BTW nice to be on a board with you again.

[RobinFinderson]

If you do I would like to buy one before I have to pay what I paid for my Lik.

BTW nice to be on a board with you again.

Thanks. It is a nice board to be on with you. I'll send you a link when/if I go pro so you can get an inexpensive print.

[SteelBlue]

Incredibly beautiful shots Robin. What kind of time is involved in that finished product?

[RobinFinderson]

Incredibly beautiful shots Robin. What kind of time is involved in that finished product?

Setting up a series of bracketed photos from a tripod takes about 20 minutes of setup in the field. That doesn't count waiting for the light conditions to be good, and waiting for the wind to stop shaking the tripod.

Post processing time depends on the number of shots that get combined into the pano. The top image only has 9 bracketed shots (three sets of three), so it took considerably less time than the bottom photo, which combines 36 shots.

So, for the bottom shot, aligning photos takes about 20 minutes. Developing the first HDR combined exposure takes about 1 hour. This 'fused' photo is massive, at about 120mb, so mastering it in Photoshop can take some serious time. For that bottom photo, dodging and burning (the process of over and underexposing certain parts, to bring out details) took me about 3 hours.

[Donuthole]

Home sweet home. The Southern Utah desert calls to me. Perhaps it is a product of my bias, but it never ceases to amaze me how much more beautiful I find the Southern Utah landscape than that of Southern Nevada, my current residence.