Lake Superior Rocks!

Lake Superior Rocks
(Canon 5d, 24mm lens)

Here is a landscape crop of the "Lake Superior Rocks!" photograph with enough resolution to make it suitable for desktop wallpaper.

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Shovel Point

View From Shovel Point
(Canon 5d, 24-105mm lens)

The time to Shovel Point took a little less than estimated so even though I left a little late there was plenty of time. Traveling at 3:30 in the morning there is not much traffic to slow you down. Perfectly clear skies again, but it works in this shot. The warm sunrise light makes this image seem almost surreal.

I do research before I go on a trip, it helps to see what others have done and makes it easier to find great locations. I sometimes try to re-create some of the better shots I see during my research. It is amazing how much you can learn about composition and technique when you see what others have done to make a location photograph very dramatically.

The inspiration for this photograph came from a book by Greg Ryan and Sally Beyer called "Minnesota - Simply Beautiful".

Scouting Shovel Point

Shovel Point HDR
(Canon 5d, 24mm tse lens)

I scouted Shovel Point for a dawn shoot. It is a 45 minute drive from where I am camped and another 45 minute hike. It starts to get light at 4:30 so I need to leave by 3, good luck with that! Once I take some photographs here tomorrow I will head to Ely, MN and see about canoing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness for a few days. If that doesn't seem practical I will just canoe in one or two of the lakes north of Ely to see if I can scope some wildlife photographs.

Todays image is a High Dynamic Range or HDR photograph taken while I was scouting this location. There can be such a large difference between the light in the sky and the objects on the ground that my camera is unable to capture it all. HDR is a technique where you take two or more pictures with different exposures and combine them into one that is properly exposed. HDR images can be tricky to work with, but I think this one looks very natural.