Monster Truck
This monster truck is sitting on the Columbia Icefields. We took a tour of the icefield while visiting Banff and Jasper National Parks in Canada. Shot with Nikon D90 and Nikon 10-24mm lens. Boosted tonal contrast for extra punch to the image.
St. Mary Lake, Glacier National Park
Iconic Glacier National Park photo. Very popular tourist spot. Sad part for me was that there was absolutely no snow left on the mountain peaks by this time in Summer. Shot with Nikon D90 with Nikon 10-24mm lens. Brilliance/Warmth filter used to enhance warm colors.
Flower, Hoyt Arboretum
A flower. Family hiking in Spring 2010 in Hoyt Arboretum, Portland, OR. Shot with Nikon D90 and Nikon 10-24mm lens without tripod.
Paris and Flamingo, Las Vegas
Two iconic hotels from Las Vegas in day time. The water body is the man made lake in front of the Hotel Bellagio. Shot with Nikon D90 and Nikon 10-24mm lens. I used a Brilliance/Warmth filter to add warmth and get better color out of the hotel buildings.
Forum Shops, Las Vegas
Forum Shops, Las Vegas. This huge shopping mall has magnificent views. We just watched the scene than actually shop here. It’s expensive! Shot with Nikon D90 and Nikon 10-24mm lens. This wide angle lens gives a typical wide-angle distorted feel to the picture. I used the Brilliance/Warmth filter to enhance the warm orange glow of the indoor lighting.
Aria Hotel, Las Vegas
I took this photo from the top floor of Polo Towers which is right opposite to Aria Hotel in late afternoon on a bright summer day. You can see the reflection of other buildings in the glass surface of the Aria and Mandarin Oriental and other hotels in the area.
Noon, Las Vegas
A visit to Las Vegas right in the middle of summer. At noon, streets are deserted (it’s too hot outside). I liked this scene with the color scheme of construction barriers, black/grey asphalt road and McDonald’s and Circus Circus Hotel in the background with blue skys.
Northwest Forest
Northwest Forest. This is a post-processed photo, to increase dynamic range called high dynamic range (HDR). Human eye can see approximately 20-24 F-stops worth of light intensity variation while most digital cameras can only capture 8-10 F-stops. What it means is what we see in a real scene can never be captured on a digital photo as it is. But with computers we can combine multiple images captured at various settings (called bracketing) and increase the dynamic range. This technique is most useful when shooting a subject with bright background like sky, snow, beach. In a normal photo, you either get a very bright overexposed sky and properly exposed object or very dark object and properly exposed sky, but never both. HDR image can depict both objects properly exposed by combining these two (or even more exposures). Notice in this photo that I’m pointing the camera directly at the sun, but still the tree barks, leaves etc. in the foreground are properly exposed. In a normal photo you would see them completely black in such case. Table Rock Trail (near Molalla, OR), Summer 2010.
Sunset at Columbia Gorge
Evening colors in the Columbia Gorge. As seen from the Vista Point. Shot with Nikon D90 and Nikon 10-24mm VR Wide-angle lens. Post-processed with Nikon Capture NX2.
Other details:
ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/80s
Aperture: F/4.5
Metering: Matrix
Focal Length: 10mm
Fun with wide angle
Near Bridal Veil falls, in the beautiful Columbia Gorge, east of Portland, OR. Shot with Nikon D90 with Nikon 10-24mm lens.
Other details:
ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/50 sec
Aperture: 3.5
Exposure Bias Value: -0.67 EV
Focal length: 10mm
Metering: Multi-segment