#Arches Natioanl Park

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Monthly Recap: August 2024

I cannot believe how quickly this year is flying by. I know that people say this all the time so it feels like a cliche, but holy cow it’s crazy how much faster time goes every single year. August has been a full month. I’ve traveled in a lot of different styles this month: a girls trip, a kid-free trip, a father/daughter (plus my kids) hiking trip and ending on a big family trip (the Wunders…

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Who Dreamed That Beauty Passed Like a Dream? (Arches Natioanl Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A portion on a poem I came across from Robert Frost...and with anyone who's seen the Delicate Arch, you've seen and taken in an amazing view, no doubt! As I looked across the morning landscape of this part of Arches National Park, I could see what appeared to be a large dynamic range. Nearby where areas caught in shadows while off in the distance, the sun shined brightly down on far off mesas, canyon walls and mountains. While I did try a few other techniques such as an in-camera HDR and working on exposures in manual mode, I found this HDR image best captured the hues and colors I'd seen that morning.To meter this image, I decided on a using a bracketed set of five TIFF images and then importing them into Aurora HDR Pro where I could work and then export for final processing in Capture NX2.

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Who Dreamed That Beauty Passed Like a Dream? (Arches Natioanl Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A portion on a poem I came across from Robert Frost...and with anyone who's seen the Delicate Arch, you've seen and taken in an amazing view, no doubt! As I looked across the morning landscape of this part of Arches National Park, I could see what appeared to be a large dynamic range. Nearby where areas caught in shadows while off in the distance, the sun shined brightly down on far off mesas, canyon walls and mountains. While I did try a few other techniques such as an in-camera HDR and working on exposures in manual mode, I found this HDR image best captured the hues and colors I'd seen that morning.To meter this image, I decided on a using a bracketed set of five TIFF images and then importing them into Aurora HDR Pro where I could work and then export for final processing in Capture NX2.