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I went to Grand Teton National Park today
with my friend Thomas. Since last summer,
Thomas and I have being trying to work out a
time to go take photos. |
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Thomas will be leaving Driggs for New York
where his wife Kinh is in the process of
setting up their restaurant. Kinh wants to
feature a panoramic photo of the Tetons in
the restaurant as they plan to have "Teton"
in the name of the restaurant. So our big
objective for the day was to capture a nice
panoramic image for the restaurant. |
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Thomas is not an experienced photographer
but owns a Canon 60D. On the drive over to
Grand Teton National Park, I tried to
educate him in some of the principles of
photography and explained the difference
between crop & full frame cameras as well as
RAW versus JPEG file formats.
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Kinh has their 60D with her in New York so I
brought along my Canon 1D-III as well as my
Canon 1D-X so we could each have a camera to
use. |
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We started out shooting day at the Blacktail
Ponds Overlook hoping to get some nice
panoramic shots of the Teton Range. I
continued my tutelage of Thomas by talking
to the subjects of composition, trying to
further emphasize the use of different
aperture settings and how to use a tripod to
advantage. |
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This photo was taken by me at that location.
Since Thomas was using my 24-70mm lens, I
had to make do with my 70-200mm. |
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Our next destination was the overlook just
south of the turnoff to Swabacher Landing
where we took some more panoramic photos.
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As I felt we probably had enough panoramic
photos to choose from for the restaurant, we
headed into Grand Teton National Park to the
turnoff to String-Leigh Lakes. I enjoy
taking photos just across the main road from
that turnoff as it affords some photo ops
that are not like all the other Grand Teton
photos you see repeated again and again. |
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We walked that area and each took many
photos in that location. By that time, we
had transitioned to sharing one camera with
the 24-70mm lens. |
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Ok that has been the good news of the day. |
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When I got home and downloaded the photos
from the two cameras I was pressed for time
as I was scheduled to have dinner with some
other friends. Long story short, I lost all
of the photos that we took in our last two
locations. |
