I’m finally back from Utah after a 7 hour drive from Moab. To get home before midnight, Sergey and I left a little early and missed the last sunset. The weather sucked during the last two days (we had 3.5 days total), so we only had a day and a half of good shooting. Nevertheless, I managed to snap 25 gigs of images, but I already know that most photos are going to be deleted. This was the first time when I tried shooting HDR panoramas in three rows and processing those images is going to be a very long and painful process. We only had time to check out some good spots at Arches and Canyonlands, although we did visit a couple of good spots for photography in the area.
I shot with the new Nikon 16-35mm VR lens almost exclusively both on FX and DX, so I will be posting some sample images later today. The lens got abused quite a bit with over 2,500 shots, tough weather conditions (lots of dust, sand, moisture and temperatures below 15 degrees F) and I have done everything from shooting ultra wide-angle @ 16mm to 35mm @ f/22. I absolutely loved shooting with this lens and one thing for sure – the 17-35mm and the 14-24mm are no longer the best landscape lenses anymore, at least for me. Although I carried my tripod most of the time, I did not even get to use it, because the VR on the Nikon 16-35mm really worked! Being able to shoot 1/2 of a second on an ultra wide-angle lens was an awesome experience.
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Nice shots of incredible views. Sorry about the weather but I still look forward to seeing the pics.
Tom, thank you! I did capture some great views, hopefully they look good (haven’t had a chance to review them yet) :)
16-35mm is a good lens. Currently I’m using 12-24mm f4G. Hopefully can get one 16-35mm when upgrade to FX camera. Thanks for sharing.
Peter, you are most welcome! I used to have the 12-24mm f/4G and I loved it (unfortunately, it was stolen). But it is DX and I shoot FX…
Nasim-aka, thanks for sharing these wonderful shots. Waiting for more.
Abdu, you’re most welcome! I will work on the images tomorrow and will post many more with some cool stories, so stay tuned :)
Amazing photo of you by the cliff at the top of this page. Breathtaking view! Thanks again for providing us budding photographers with endless inspiration. =)
Eric, I have just noticed that I never responded to your comment, sorry about that, not sure how I missed it!
Thank you for your feedback, I really appreciate it!
Great blog you have! Could you please share, which lens you used for capturing the photo of the clouds?
Thanks in advance.
Ole, thank you! If you mean the second photograph, it was actually captured by my friend and he was shooting with the Canon 50D + 17-40mm f/4 lens.
Please let me know if you have any questions!