Trail Running Take 2

For our second trail running shoot Hil, Anne and I headed up to Lake Fork trail outside of Red Lodge to attempt to run (and take pictures) in snowshoes.

For this picture my camera was in landscape mode with the flash on full power and f-stop of 4.0 and a shutter speed of 1/400 sec. I was hoping that the flash would light Hil up, but keep the background darker, but it didn't work as well as I had hoped. I did like the contrast between the red jacket and dark trees though.

This picture was taken on the same settings and at the same location, but I let Hil get closer to me. I wanted to get a shot that didn't have the subject right in the middle of the frame. I like the effect, except the background snow is overexposed and she's looking down (which was better than her looking at me and falling over).



By the time we moved on the sun had disappeared for good and we had moved back into the trees, which made lighting even more difficult. For this picture I switched my camera into manual and had an f-stop of 4.0 and a shutter speed of 1/500 sec and the flash set to full power. I still wanted the lit up subject with a darker background, but I was also trying to play with the angles of Anne, the bridge and the trees in the background. I like how the diagonals worked, but Anne is not as bright as I would have liked.












This photo was taken with the camera set to manual, the f-stop at 4.0, the shutter speed at 1/160 sec with full flash. It was cropped from part of a larger image that I didn't particularly like, but we had talked about sharpness and blurriness in class, and I liked the contrast between the one sharp foot and the blurry foot.

YNP 1/17/10

Ski and Snowshoe Adventure in Yellowstone

Since it was a long weekend with beautiful weather and I have a new pair of skis to play with, a trip to Yellowstone was in order! Hilary and Rob came too, and we headed for Lost Lake Trail starting at the Petrified Tree. There wasn't a lot of snow, but more than enough to play in!

We had a couple of wildlife sightings as well. On one of our breaks we were watching some mountain chickadees flit around when two woodpeckers flew in. At the time none of us knew what they were, but since we couldn't see any red we had ruled out downy and hairy woodpeckers. With the help of this (not very good) picture, you can just see the yellow on the forehead and, with Hilary's prowess using the bird guide, we concluded that they were American three-toed woodpeckers.

After we got done skiing, we took a short trip into the Lamar valley. Our photography teacher Dave Shumway was there looking at five wolves from the Druid pack, and he let us look through his camera to get a close view of them. Then it was time to head back to Billings, and on the way out of the Park we got our last view of some bighorn sheep.