North Fork Owhyee River, Southern Idaho, USA
We were scouting future backpacking trips in the canyon lands near Jordan Valley, Oregon, along the Idaho border. We stayed high and did not climb down into the canyons -- which were mostly impassable. I suppose this land is best seen by raft.
See this article for pictures taken along the East Fork of the Owhyee:
https://imageliner.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-tules-east-fork-owhyee-river.html
Snapshots from the trip.
Lightly edited and cropped.
Photos taken as RAW-NEF, then edited in PaintShop Pro.
Hand-held. Circular Polarizer. No HDR.
Nikon Z5, set to Daylight, Vivid.
I like to shoot at a fixed ISO 200
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| Long lens, shallow F4 aperture, cropped as a pano |
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| 17mm, F10 |
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| 17mm wide-angle, F8 |
Many of the flower photos were underexposed. I did not check their exposures or look in the previewer, relying on the camera meter. Because the photos were taken in Nikon's native NEF/RAW format, the photos were salvageable.
The RAW image properties showed I was sloppy. The photos were all set with a minus -1 EV exposure compensation. Normally, I pay close attention to this setting. My excuse: The day was hot and I was tired.
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| NEF Properties showed the truth |
These were snapshots and I wasn't working very hard. Never-the-less, mistakes were made and lessons learned. We also tried our hands at astro-photography during the new moon. The night stars were amazing, but our photographs all failed. Admittedly, we were just dorking around.
Various portraits were taken of my traveling companions, and I wish I could upload them here.
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| The reason we will not do much backpacking in this area. That and plethora Mormon Crickets. |
Related: East Fork of the same wilderness:
https://imageliner.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-tules-east-fork-owhyee-river.html
I like cattle grates and fence lines: GrandView Idaho (in the same general area as the Owhyee range):
https://imageliner.blogspot.com/2013/09/grandview-idaho.html
Had best study-up on this article:
https://imageliner.blogspot.com/2011/11/using-18-grey-card.html
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