Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Always leave the gate the way you found it.

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Charley

Fun pictures; really liked the second one.

Many thanks for ‘keeping on keeping on’.

Charley. Grimes, Indianapolis

tcthome Loc: NJ

Dan' de Bourgogne

Beautyful landscapes! Did You use an hyperfocal app' or did You set simply a tight aperture+Wide Angle focal lenght+ focus quite near?

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

The first and third of this trio were focus stacked. Four exposures were used to make #1, seven exposures were used to make #3. The second image is a result of six separate vertically shot exposures that were simultaneously focus stacked and merged as a pano in a single operation. Having done this sort of thing a lot, I've found that LrC does a VERY good job at making what is effectively a one-step 'pano-stack', but inevitably there'll be smallish localized portions/areas --especially where some element that's a matter of inches from the camera abuts or overlays an area that's either mid-distant or would only be in focus just short of infinity-- that requires some extra 'local' compositing. Portions like that are simply selected and copied from whichever of the series has the proper focus and then is 'pasted' and blended (or whatever) onto/into the pano-stack. Might sound a little complicated, but it's easier to do than it is to explain.

There was plenty of late afternoon light, but it was quite windy. That meant a relatively fast shutter speed was needed, and since I generally prefer to use the base (or close to base) ISO value, that correspondingly meant using a wider aperture than I might otherwise have preferred/used had it been less windy. SS and/or aperture settings are more or less irrelevant (though anyone could use one reciprocal or another of the 'Sunny 16' rule and get 'correct' exposure values to arrive at similar results), but since shadow and highlight (sky) areas were as far apart as they were, each of these images received targeted, local adjustments to address and 'balance' the contrast and tonal range(s).

I do appreciate your question(s) though. The only difficulty I find, however, is describing the process adequately. And doing so as I have, I've left out any number of other adjustments I'd also made.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

jaredjacobson

Great perspective on the second!

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

The statement about the gate is so important, and it seems most people don't know that rule or don't care to follow it. I've seen animals on the loose because someone left the gate open. My own sister used to carry wire cutters to cut a fence she wanted to go through without regard for why the fence was there! I exploded.

Your pictures are really nice, by the way!

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Yup. Your comment --and the exasperation you expressed-- about your sister's 'regard' for fences, I mean, is one I've experienced a time or two as well. Though I wrote to 'leave them as you found them', there's been instances where I've come to an open gate knowing full well --I mean hey, the cattle that were supposed to be behind it were in plain sight!-- that whoever left the fresh tire tracks had opened it, gone through, and hadn't closed it behind themselves, so I closed it for them. We get lots of 'unedumacated' folks who visit from who-knows-where who want to see where that 'road' goes, and haven't got a clue about Western Etiquette.

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Great set, Jim.