Weekly Blog Post

This weeks blog post is pictures that I took while hunting this last weekend up near White Sulfur.  Each of these pictures were taken with my Samsung since I did not have my Nikon with me.  The first picture is one I took right by where we were camped.  The sunset in the background added a lot of color to the picture.  I did some editing to this photo which included bumping up the contrast and the saturation a small amount, as well as increasing the clarity a bit too, which helped take the blur out of the picture.  The second picture was just flowing water near the camp site.  For this picture I bumped up the contrast as well as increased the clarity of the water.  Since the snow was white I tried to brighten it up by increasing the brightness of the whites.  For the third picture I increased the clarity and the saturation as well as increased the whites and the highlights to bring out the snow against the trees.  I increased the warmth by a stop so that it kept the green color bright.  For the fourth picture, I had to use a faster shutter speed on my phone so that it would capture the water falling without making it blurry.  I increased the clarity and used the haze tool a small amount to get rid of the blurred parts of the picture.  Editing these four pictures were fun since these are the pictures that I edited the most so far.

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The first photo was one that I took the beginning of the semester while out canoeing near Idaho Falls.  This was taken with my Samsung since I did not have my camera at the time.  It was taken with a 26mm focal length, ISO-200, F/9, and 1/300 sec. shutter speed.  This one took a little more editing than the first picture.  To edit, I increased the contrast a little so that the color of the sky would pop out more against the trees.  Increasing the saturation a small amount helped with that as well so it wasn't so dull.

 

The second photo was one I took down at the Yellowstone River this last weekend.  It was a nice sunny day, not too bright which made it easy to catch good photos.  For this photo, I used my Nikon D40 with a 55mm focal length.  The settings were ISO-200, F/11 aperture, and 1/50 sec exposure/shutter speed (helped make the water blur over the rocks).  When editing, I did not have to do much but I did increase the exposure by one stop since the picture was somewhat dark at first.  I did not mess with the white balance or the hue at all since they started to make the picture look fake in a way.

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The first picture was one that I took while at Riverfront Park this last weekend.  The blue sky really made the berries stick out on this picture.  I used a middle aperture around f/6 to make the background blurry so that the berries stood out as well.  With the second picture, I also took this at Riverfront Park this last weekend.  I had to use a fairly small shutter speed to that it caught the movement of the geese without blurring them out.  The shutter speed that I used was about 350.  The third and fourth pictures were taken while I was out hiking over the summer up near East Rosebud Lake.  These were taken with my Samsung but turned out really cool!  The view is amazing on the lakes up there so they did not take much editing at all!

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The first picture is one that I took from the top of my grandmas hill the other day with my Samsung.  I wasn't going to edit this a lot and then I was messing with it and turned the hue way up so the blue really stood out and the saturation down a little bit.  I was just messing around with the hue but it made it look kind of cool so I left it.  The second picture I took with my Nikon of the lilacs at my grandmas at the beginning of the semester.  I took this with a low aperture so that the background was blurred out.  I took a picture with everything clear but I think the blurred background picture turned out looking better.  The third picture was taken at my grandmas when we had a big storm towards the end of the summer.  This one turned out looking very interesting from a distance and took no editing at all.  Everything was super still and eerie.

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The first photo is one that I took from my house the other day when the sunset was incredible!  The way that the clouds were patchy and the sun was a pinkish color slowly setting behind the hill made the picture turn out really well.  The second picture is one that I took out while hunting in the Breaks a couple weekends ago.  The sky and the hills seemed to go on forever which made the picture turn out pretty well.  This was taken with my Samsung and did not require much editing.  The third picture is one that I took on Fort Peck Lake the other weekend while hunting as well.  The sunrise in the morning over the wakes from the boat made for a really interesting picture.  This took very little editing as well, only bumping up the contrast a little bit, other than that, nothing!

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The first picture is one that I took while we were out hunting near Two Dot, MT.  This was a really cool view and the way the dirt road just went straight down the middle of the picture helped add to it a lot.  The second picture was of a field out near Laurel the other week.  This was taken with my Samsung and the only editing that was done was increasing the contrast a little bit.  The third picture was one I took of my friend with my old pickup that turned out really well.  I did not edit much on this photo at all but this was taken with my Nikon camera.  The fourth picture was one that I took out at the A1 junk yard out near my house with my Nikon camera.  I zoomed out as I took the picture, giving it a blurred effect which made it look really cool.