Yellowstone March 20th - 21st

PHOTOS NOW ONLINE

I took my ART380 class to Yellowstone for the weekend (March 20-21) and just now got everything online.

Most of the time I was helping my students, so I took very few photographs. I also spent much of my time with 5 or more of my students using my cameras and lenses, so often I did not have something to shoot :)

The park was slow, for my taste; but this was the only time that all of my students were able to make the trip.

As Rocky Mountain College is a small college (<1,000 students) my class is full with 10 students and an auditor.

One of my students from the area had not been to Yellowstone in over 10 years, others had never been to the park, so even a slow trip provided a great experience for them. Their excitement for march Elk and Bison was refreshing (I am quite jaded).

I shot another time lapse of the drive to the park it was shot from the vehicle of a student who was driving himeself. The settings and information is at the end of the video. Shooting from dark through sunrise was a challenge for a single exposure setting to handle; but it worked out OK'ish (using "Av" in place of "M" would have worked better; but flickering and blur would have become an issue).

Enjoy

Yellowstone March 13th - 15th

PHOTOS ONLINE NOW

Time lapse, long exposure, and days of sitting and watching.

The trip started with shooting over 5,000 images to create a time lapse video of my drive to the park. I spent the early mornings and late evening scouting with no luck. I spent my mid days sitting and waiting for Ermine to come out and grant me a few images. I put many miles on my hiking boots and on my snow shoes during the trip while taking very few photos, other than the time lapse.

The temps ranged from about 10° to over 50°.

I experienced snow, rain, and lots of sun (even with sun screen I got a bit too much).

The bugs are begging to hatch along the Yellowstone river, bird activity is picking up (slowly), Bears are out and on the move (sorry no bear photos), Wolf activity is a bit slow; but still more than easy to view daily with scopes.

If you follow my postings on:
https://twitter.com/FragilePlaces
http://www.facebook.com/ShumwayPhotography
then you have had the play by play of this trip.

I hope you enjoyed being able to follow along during the trip.

Feel free to ask questions and leave comments/criticism, and also give your favorite photos a thumbs up on my site.

Enjoy

The Drive to Yellowstone

On March 13th, 2010 I decided to document my drive from Billings, MT to Yellowstone National Park (via Gardiner, MT) through the process of time lapse photography. What you see in the video is 5,183 photos taken 2 seconds apart from one another put together via Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended at 24 frames/sec. Initially it was 1080P; but I compressed it to 720P for the web. The images were captured via 50D with a 17-40/4.0L at 1/200, f/11, ISO400. The 2h52m drive became 3m36s. Alexander Blu contributed "TimeTraveler," big thanks to creative commons.

One thing that I did wrong was that I did not reset the cameras numbering before starting, so I had to edit two big pieces together in Final Cut, that is where I added the music too.

If you have questions on the process feel free to ask.

I hope you enjoy, I would not be surprised if I do a bit more of this stuff (not while driving) in the future.

Enjoy