Here is another 5 shots from my Canadian Rockies series. This is the "B" series
All these shots were taken along 1 highway between Banff and Jasper National Parks, or the previously mentioned 742 dirt road - Canmore area.
1. This is just one of those "moment shots" I saw something I liked, took a shot and hoped for the best. I tried to keep the sky correctly exposed so shadows were quite dark. I was able to recover them in raw though. I took this shot mostly because of this awesome opening in the sky.
2. This is the famous Payto lake. It was flooded with tourists, and I had a hard time taking this shot without ppl in it. I went down as much as I could and took 5 shots to compose this panorama.
3.This is the foggy shot of some mountain (no idea what its name is) but it's along 742 behind Canmore. Epic drive. If you get a chance just drive around that road towards Spray lakes.
4. Small part of mount Rundle with a rising Moon. I took this shot at 600mm with my new Tamron 150-600mm f/5-6.3 G2 lens.
5. Along 11 to Kootenay Plains I ran into this small blizzard and I just loved the hard snow fall backdrop and aspen trees still full of yellow leaves.
All images were taken with Nikon D810 and Tamron 24-70mm F/2.8 G2, Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 G2, or Tamron 150-600mm f/5-6.3 G2 lenses.
Gregg, what a great set of images! The first image is simply stunning!!! And all of the others are really wonderful. Nice processing of the moon image. You got my attention with these, and my vote!
Keith W.
Always love seeing your work because it's beautiful and has a nice balance of drama and calm. That moon shot is a composite right? Or did you crop in pretty big? I did one recently at 600mm and to get a moon that big would have involved a pretty big crop on my 24MP camera. Maybe you have a high MP camera and were able to crop in nicely without image degradation?
Well, the moon shot is about 20% cropped, that's about it. It did look big because it was right above the mountain, raising and looked enormous. So the raw (I just looked at) has it little bit smaller but not by much. If the moon was high up in the sky it sure would look a lot smaller. I took this shot because I was impressed with its size, and capability of this quite inexpensive lens (in comparison to say Nikon 600mm f/4 that costs around 10K).
