landscape Archives - Scott Jones

Tag: landscape

Sharper Photographs with Mirror Up Mode

This is an update of an article originally posted on September 15, 2009 A sharp photograph is the result of accurate focus and a still camera. Good technique in photography helps achieve both. Using a tripod is probably the biggest help to keeping your camera still, but sometimes you can do more. Shooting in Mirror […]

So Close and Yet So Far

I took one more trip to Yosemite on Sunday night because of the holiday and the fect that I’ll soon start traveling for the MotoGP season. I figured I might get one more opportunity to capture Horsetail Fall from a different perspective, hoping that the sun’s arc hadn’t passed beyond the narrow range required to […]

5 Things I Learned Last Night About Snow

Never having lived through a snowy winter, there is much about dealing with the white stuff I don’t know. Last night was a great learning experience, for I learned ALL SORTS of things related to snow. Having gone to the eastern shore each night of this current trip to Lake Tahoe, I decided last night […]

Good Things Come To Those Who Wait

How long did it take to make this photograph? About two hours last night to get it just right, plus several trips over the past year to find the right location and perspective, four evenings in the past two weeks waiting for the sky to be perfectly clear, and several months waiting for the above […]

A Star On Top

For the first time in quite a while this photographer actually make some photographs last night. For months now, work for me has been about producing the MotoMatters calendar and our “Fast Things” t-shirt, printing landscape images for display in one of the Northstar at Tahoe shops, and filling orders for the Rossi glowing brakes […]

Sunrise, La’ie Point

My daughter and I got up at 5:30 this morning to drive up the coast of Oahu about 10 miles to La’ie Point. She sat in the car and played a game on my iPhone while I set up and marveled at the light rays as the sun rose above the horizon. When the scene […]

Resting Turtle

After a big dinner here on Oahu’s North Shore, the extended family went on to look for the locals’ favorite shave ice place, while the photo nerd chose not to waste one of a handful of sunset opportunities and passed on the famed syrupy coldness. I jumped in the rented (insert non-sensical and unpronounceable VW […]

Going Wide

A friend on Facebook just asked me for advice about wide angle lenses, and rather than relay what I know to another individual, I thought I’d post here for him and anyone else who’d like to hear my thoughts. My experience is based on having owned the Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle […]

When All Else Fails…

You can always rely on Tunnel View for a great Yosemite photo, right? Well, not always, as it turns out. Even the perspective on Yosemite Valley that Tunnel View offers can be rendered fairly un-photogenic by bad light. Sorry, but even this old faithful spot is subject to the same weakness as every other spot […]

Cathedral Rocks

This image of Cathedral Rocks in Yosemite Valley is interesting to me because it has become one of my favorite photographs of the trip, and I almost didn’t bother to get out of the car to take it. We had spent the morning camped on the shore of the Merced River, waiting for the sunlight […]