By Ed Heaton
I just got back from a great trip out west, Wyoming to be specific. I spent five days in the Grand Tetons and one day in Yellowstone fine-tuning the logistics for my fall Photo Tour. I spent six days working from 4am to 10pm each day and at the end of each day I was beat and ready for bed. When I did have a few minutes of down time it was spent writing notes on the different locations documenting the best times to visit the various locations and how long it took to get to various areas.
As a professional photographer these trips are not just mere fun with an occasional photo op here and there. They are working trips and you need to have the right tools with you to get the job done. For me the right tools are a number of things which include camera body, lenses, tripod, filters, cable release, pano equipment, etc…. Let's break it down to just the lenses. I needed a wide angle, medium range lens and a longer tele-photo to make sure I could cover all the ranges that I was presented with. This meant that I had a packed camera bag full of Tamron lenses and other equipment which equal "HEAVY". I never check my gear when flying and the airlines allow you to carry two items and those two items for me was my camera bag and tripod. I can always buy clothes if they did actually lose my luggage but luckily they didn’t.
Ask any craftsman and they'll tell you, having the right tools makes all of the difference in the world...
Best of Light,
Ed
Nice photos!
Posted by: Carolyn Fox | Friday, July 08, 2011 at 08:36 AM
Good Morning Carolyn and Thank You!
Posted by: Ed Heaton | Monday, July 11, 2011 at 07:08 AM
I was there the fist week in June. I drove there from Montana where I live. Have a look at some photos.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hvymetal57/sets/72157626917994898/
Posted by: Shannon sorg | Monday, July 11, 2011 at 02:12 PM
Hi Shannon and thanks for stopping in. I'm sure the first week of June was amazing as well. I'll take a look at what you captured and thanks for sharing!
Best of Light,
Ed
Posted by: Ed Heaton | Monday, July 11, 2011 at 02:20 PM
Great shots Ed. I love the Tetons. Wish I had a decent camera when I visited there. Your photos take me back. These look like dawn with the lighting.
Posted by: Joe Horton | Monday, July 11, 2011 at 03:31 PM
Ed, All of the Pics are wonderful. Do you do some processing or adjustments after taking the shots. The reason why I m asking was, I have a canon SLR and telephoto lens. But I m still not able to get the expected output. I have not been to Yellow stone. But soon will be hitting there.
Posted by: sundar | Monday, July 11, 2011 at 04:48 PM
Thanks Joe and Sundar I really appreciate the nice comments. Yes Joe, most of the shots were taken at sunrise or sunset. Sundar, yes I process all my images with Photoshop CS5 and several plug-ins by Nik.
Posted by: Ed Heaton | Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 07:33 PM
Amazing pictures. The 3rd one is crazy beautiful.
I've got a question for you. I'm just getting into the dslr world. I've got a sony a33 picked out but I'm not sure what to do about lenses. I'm considering starting with the tamron 18-270, f3.5. I figure this would be a jack of all trades and allow me to normally carry 1 lense around. However in low light indoor situations like christmas morning or something like that the f3.5 may not cut it?? That's what the local camera store guys told me anyway. They said to get a 50mm, f1.4. But to me 50mm is to much zoom for indoors when everyone is gathered close around. What do you think I should do? I'm of course not trying to spend as much money as I can and would rather have less lenses than more.
Thanks Ed.
Rick
Posted by: Rick | Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 01:34 PM
Hi Rick and I'm sorry for the delay in responding! Thanks for the kind words!
I'm going to have Ken Hubbard respond to your note only because Sony has some proprietary issues going on...
Posted by: Ed Heaton | Monday, August 01, 2011 at 02:53 PM
Absolutely beautiful.
Posted by: freisteller | Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 02:47 AM