July, 2010

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Jul 10

First Place in Art Show Again!

So this is the second year I have entered into the American Fork Art Show. This is also the second year I placed first in the professional division. Booya! The best part is that both of the photos I have entered are of my buddy Hribar back in MA. Both of them I wouldn’t even imagine would place in a local art show in Utah Valley let alone get first. If you are wondering what other image of Hribar won last year it was the smoking one which you can view HERE or for a better quality viewing click HERE. So hopefully I can keep up the winning streak here in American Fork. Thanks for reading! GT

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Awesome photo curtsy of Kari (the pretty lady in the reflecting glass)

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Jul 10

Thanksgiving Point Fireworks

So here in Utah we celebrated the 4th of July on the 3rd of July because the 4th fell on a Sunday. So we saw fireworks a day earlier then most everyone else. My girlfriend Kari and I decided to go the the free show at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi. As you can see its pretty popular. Also as you can see by the photos I went there more to just hang out and enjoy the fireworks than to make photos. I figure the guy that lives on the 10th floor across from the Eiffel Tower has me beat hands down when it comes to amazing firework shots. So anyhow here are some photos I took while we were there waiting, watching and leaving.

Photo of Kari and me amongst the waves of people.

Not to shabby for a MySpace photo.

Cute shot of Kari in her extremely blindingly bright blanket.

Another shot of Kari. As you can see it was so cold she lost her hands to frost bite ;)

The firework shot of the day.

You guys have already seen this one in the previous post. Great shot for being taken the way it was.

I love this shot! Cranked my ISO to 4,000 and used the car light for my lighting.

Thanks for reading! GT

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Jul 10

Don’t Delete Just Yet

This blog post is all about not getting to trigger happy with that delete button on the back of you camera. This photograph was taken the other day after Kari and I went to watch fireworks at Thanksgiving Point. The other photos from this event will be up tomorrow when I go through them all.

Anyways back on subject. Don’t discard any images on the spot, unless its blurry or poor composition. Why? Because you could get a cool shot like this one. What was technically wrong with this shot? It was pretty darn underexposed. I didn’t pop the flash bright enough to properly illuminate Kari. But to my defense we were rushing to the car to beat traffic home (which we failed at anyways). I just happend to have my camera around my neck and flash mounted. I forgot I left my flash on manual mode to the previous setting of to underexposed to light this photograph properly. So this photo was taken from the hip while carrying a tripod and numerous other object while walking backwards. If I wasn’t in such a rush I would have more than likely deleted this photo without a second thought because it was so underexposed.

But lucky for me I didn’t, and because I shot it in raw I was able to pull all this detail out. I didn’t even know there was smoke from the fireworks in the photo until I brightened it up.  And because it was so underexposed I introduced a lot of noise to the image when brightening it. But I like the look of the noise in this black and white photo. A keeper for sure!


Here is a detail shot where you can see the noise and Kari’s pretty face.

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Jul 10

Kennecott Mine

We went to Kennecott for my fathers birthday a couple day back. For those of you who are not familiar with Kennecott it is one of the worlds largest mines. They mine primarily for copper but get a little silver and gold as well. I was really excited because I have always seen it off in the distance but never took the time to go check it out. There were lots of really cool facts about the mine. Like the trucks that move the ore are two stories tall and the mine is 3/4 miles deep by 2.5 miles across. The mine can be seen from SPACE! Anyhow even though we were going during mid day when the light is pretty nasty I figured I would sport my camera anyways. So here are some photos from our trip.

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My dad super stoked getting in the car.

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When you get to the mine there is a visitors center and a look out spot over the mine. Sadly you cant go down in the mine.

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JR scoping the two story trucks that look like small toys from a distance.

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One of the trucks tires. Cost around $15,000 and last 9 months.

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Looking across. I really like how this photo is layered. Some foreground, mine, green hills, and blue sky.

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My favorite shot of the mine.

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This is where all the trucks converge and dump there loads down the crusher. The crusher smashes the huge ore and places it on a conveyor belt that runs 5 miles to get processed down to copper.

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After checking out Kennecott we went drove up a random road to see where it went.

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After driving forever we decided to look on my iPhone to see where it went. It ended up in Tooele…we turned back.

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Judy in the back doing some sort of work.

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JR waiting at Bangerter hwy. What a thug!

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