F stop - 3.5
ISO - 200
Focal length - 70mm
Exposure compensation - -1.0
Location - Beartooth Pass
About the picture - Early morning sunlight on the Beartooth Pass provided night light for this picture. I tried two different shots, one with the rocks in the foreground in focus and the rest out of focus and this one. I preferred this one.
F stop - 7.1
ISO - 200
Focal length - 400mm
Exposure compensation - +.3
Location - Yellowstone National Park
About the picture - I took these sheep pictures with a doubler on to reach the 400mm focal length. I took a lot of pictures and this one stood out because of the shadow of the horns on the body of the largest sheep. I also liked the behavior of this small group sticking close together and the one in the center eating and looking towards the camera.
F stop - 7.1
ISO - 100
Focal length - 70mm
Exposure compensation - +.7
Location - Yellowstone National Park
About the picture - This was taken during a very bright day in Yellowstone so an f stop of 7.1 still allowed a fast enough shutter speed to freeze any movement in the foreground in the grass and keep it all in focus. I like the different layers presented in this composition.
F stop - 7.1
ISO - 100
Focal length - 93mm
Exposure compensation - -.7
Location - Yellowstone National Park
About the picture - I enjoy the lighting on this picture a lot. It makes me think a lot when I look at it to try and figure out what exactly is going on which is the same reaction I had to seeing this dead tree in that area for the first time. It keeps attention on a scene that might be boring otherwise.
F stop - 7.1
ISO - 200
Focal length - 200mm
Exposure compensation - 0
Location - Beartooth Pass
About the picture - I took a lot of goat pictures to get this one that I like. I have a lot of just one goat looking up and them not doing anything very exciting, so that makes this one even better because of the young one peeking over the adults back. It separates itself from all of my other pictures of goats because of the baby looking over.
F stop - 4
ISO - 200
Focal length - 70mm
Exposure compensation - -.7
Location - Bighorn River
About this picture - I like this picture because of the excitement Rudy is showing to get started hunting. I threw the decoy bag into the picture to show that this is what he was waiting for. I wanted Rudy in focus but not everything in the foreground such as the grasses so I used a low f stop to get a shallow depth of field and underexposed by -.7 because it was a very bright day.
F stop - 4
ISO - 200
Focal length - 179mm
Exposure compensation - -.7
Location - Bighorn River
About this picture - I tried many times to get a picture like this with live a live duck, but I never liked the expression on Rudy's face as much as I did with this decoy, as well as the shallow depth of field focused right on his face and the color of the water.
F stop - 7.1
ISO - 200
Focal length - 70
Location - Bighorn River
Exposure compensation - +.7
About the picture - Probably my favorite picture from the entire year. The soft bright light of the snow that day really brought out the vibrant orange of the ducks feet and set up a picture with great contrast throughout. It was bright enough that I could keep a low ISO and a medium f stop to get most of the duck and all of Rudy's head in focus to get the composition I wanted.
F stop - 7.1
ISO - 200
Focal length - 70mm
Exposure compensation - +.7
Location - Bighorn River
About the picture - This was a shot meant to show the surroundings. I took it from my duck blind, so I wanted the cattails in the picture. Having a medium aperture setting and a low ISO allowed the capture of enough detail to get the bank on the other side of the river and catch the snow and fog over the water.
F stop - 7.1
ISO - 200
Focal length - 70mm
Exposure compensation - +.7
Location - Bighorn River
About the picture - I really like the background and foreground of this picture. If the foreground wasn't in pretty good focus it would take away the effect of the rough shadow and the picture would lose a lot. The background makes this a good shot that gives a feeling about the kind of day it was on the water. Rudy is standing right in the middle because all of the attention is supposed to be on him in this picture, the rest is just extra.
F stop - 7.1
ISO - 200
Focal length - 82mm
Exposure compensation - +.7
Location - Bighorn River
About the picture - Probably my favorite post hunting photo of the year. It worked much better having the birds up on a log where they are clearly visible. The reddish orange pheasant draws a lot of attention and leads into Rudy's face very well. A medium aperture allowed the birds to be in focus along with Rudy.
F stop - 16
ISO - 200
Focal length - 70
Exposure compensation - +.7
Location - Rock Creek, Red Lodge
About the picture - I wanted a slow f stop to slow the water down a little and capture the color of the water as best as possible. I had to hold the camera on top of a post on the bridge to keep it steady enough for the long exposure.
F stop - 7.1
ISO - 200
Focal length - 70mm
Exposure compensation - -.7
Location - Rock Creek, Red Lodge
About the picture - I like the way that Rudy looks against the snow and the slow backwater of the creek. I wanted his entire body in focus so I needed a medium aperture because he was moving as well and I couldn't go too slow with the shutter speed or he would come out blurry.
F stop - 7.1
ISO - 200
Focal length - 122mm
Exposure compensation - -.7
Location - Rock Creek, Red Lodge
About the picture - Again, I like the way that Rudy looks against the water, snow and ice. I like the medium depth of field because the lines are so jagged and interesting with a good contrast that makes the background of the composition interesting as well. I also like the angle I took the picture at above Rudy on a bridge.
F stop - 7.1
ISO - 200
Focal length - 148mm
Exposure compensation - -.7
Location - Red Lodge
About the picture - I like the way that the fence line works its way back into the trees and goes out of focus and disappears into them. I like the way that my eyes start on the fence line and follow it until it ends and then move over to the interesting trees.
F stop - 4
ISO - 800
Focal length - 70mm
Exposure compensation - 0
Location - Beartooth Pass
About the picture - This was taken just past the gates on the Beartooth pass early one cold morning and it was very windy. This made it necessary to use a high ISO and a low f stop because I could not keep the camera still long enough for a slow shutter speed.
F stop - 4
ISO - 400
Focal length - 100mm
Exposure compensation - 0
Location - Beartooth Pass
About the picture - I like the many different layers in this composition. The diagonal lines of the mountains that come down on different sides each time make it easy for my eyes to follow the trees through the different layers to the mountains in the back which are the real subject of the photo.
F stop - 4
ISO - 400
Focal length - 70mm
Exposure compensation - 0
Location - Beartooth Pass
About the picture - This is quite honestly one of those pictures that turned out much better than I had hoped for. I more or less was just enjoying the canine tracks up and down the pass road and wanted to document it and decided to get down at a low angle and get a picture of the tracks where everything else had melted already. With the road line and the curvy track pattern and the bend in the road there is a lot of interesting lines in the picture that compliment the tracks.
F stop - 7.1
ISO - 400
Focal length - 70mm
Exposure compensation - 0
Location - Beartooth Pass
About the picture - Mike was trying hard to get a good landscape shot up the canyon and was on a pretty steep slope here. I feel like I did a good job capturing that he was on a steep slope with a long drop down at the angle I took the picture.
F stop - 7.1
ISO - 400
Focal length - 100mm
Exposure compensation - 0
Location - Beartooth Pass
About the picture - I liked this tree because there is a lot going on with scars, sap, live and dead branches, and colorful bark. I wanted a pretty large depth of field to keep the composition confusing because that is the way that I looked at the tree. I didn't want there to be one obvious subject so I wanted a lot in focus.
F stop - 7.1
ISO - 400
Focal length - 70mm
Exposure compensation - 0
Location - Beartooth Pass
About the picture - I really liked the color of the moss against the snow and bark, as well as the jagged lines in the bark and the moss. A medium aperture allowed me to get everything in pretty good focus.
F stop - 10
ISO - 100
Focal length - 70mm
Exposure compensation - -.7
Location - Rock Creek, Red Lodge
About the picture - This was a tough picture to take because it was bright outside but this was in a shadow because of the overhanging ledge of ice. I wanted the water to have a little bit of ribbon effect so it didn't take away from the icicles hanging down.
F stop - 10
ISO - 100
Focal length - 122mm
Exposure compensation - -.7
Location - Rock Creek, Red Lodge
About the picture - I liked the way this picture captures the ice running smoothly yet very quickly over the ice. It was hard to stay still enough for the long shutter speed necessary to blur the water and took many attempts to get this.
F stop - 7.1
ISO - 100
Focal length - 77mm
Exposure compensation - -.7
Location - Rock Creek, Red Lodge
About the picture - I really liked the way that this picture displayed the contrasting colors of the scene. The tree in the foreground went very nicely with the color of the creek and the woods in the background. It stood out enough to get attention but wasnt' in focus enough to take too much attention from the main subject, the creek.
F stop - 7.1
ISO - 200
Focal length - 200mm
Exposure compensation - -.7
Location - Rock Creek, Red Lodge
About the picture - There were a lot of really cool ice formations on the creek this day, but it was tough to make an interesting picture out of some of the cool ones that were by themselves. For this picture I tried to add the element of the diagonal lines going through the image with the main point of interest being the oddly shaped icicle.
F stop - 7.1
ISO - 100
Focal length - 70mm
Exposure compensation - 0
Location - Rock Creek, Red Lodge
About the picture - I enjoy this composition because of how the rocks on the bottom of the creek are complimented by the different colors of the wood on this bridge. The large piece of broken ice also provides a point of interest.
F stop - 16
ISO - 100
Focal length - 70mm
Exposure compensation - 0
Location - Rock Creek, Red Lodge
About the picture - I almost dropped my camera in the water trying to get this one. I had to set it down on the bank on a log and partially steady it with some snow packed along the side and underneath to even it out. It worked out nicely and is one of the best pictures I have taken when trying to blur out the water.
F stop - 4
ISO - 100
Focal length - 70mm
Exposure compensation - 0
Location - Bighorn River
About the picture - The worst part about this picture was the pile of ducks and the goose. This is one of the best pictures of Rudy I have ever taken, with the snow and the trees and the river apparent but out of focus in the background and Rudy being very attentive but relaxed. Unfortunately the birds got covered in snow pretty quickly and the way they were set up doesn't display them very well.
F stop - 7.1
ISO - 200
Focal length - 93mm
Exposure compensation - -1.0
Location - Bighorn River
About the picture - This picture was taken on an extremely bright day and I had to underexpose by a whole stop to keep the picture from not being blown out and allow me to darken it up a little more in photoshop as well. I like the way that the ducks were set up and how they are in focus as well as Rudy.
F stop - 4
ISO - 800
Focal length - 70mm
Exposure compensation - -.7
Location - Yellowstone River, Billings
About the picture - Probably the only really good picture I have of my puppy after over a month of having him. He loses interest very quickly so I had to set up this shot pretty carefully. I had to underexpose to make sure he was not grey. A low f stop focused very well on his face and faded out down along his body which was perfect for the situation. To get him to look up at me I climbed on this downed tree and took the picture looking down at him.
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