Photo Friday: A Mt. Rushmore Gallery

Mt. Rushmore and the Avenue of Flags
Mt. Rushmore and the Avenue of Flags II

Technical Details: Canon 5d Mark II, 17-40 f/4l @ 40mm, f/10, 3.2 sec.
This photograph can be viewed on my website: Mt. Rushmore and the Avenue of Flags II

Following yesterday’s post “How to Chisel More Detail from an Image of Mt. Rushmore“, today’s Photo Friday contains 4 more images of Mt. Rushmore National Monument in South Dakota. To capture these images, I arose before sunrise and made my way through the Black Hills to the monument. I parked in the parking garage (I don’t know too many National Monuments in the western states that would have one) and for the first time in my life I saw the monument without another soul around. I watched as the warm sunrise light hit the faces and changed the tones from a light purple to a fiery red to a warm yellow glow. These images portray different angles with different lenses and in different stages of the early morning light (in order earlier to later).

Mt. Rushmore and the Avenue of Flags II
Mt. Rushmore and the Avenue of Flags

Technical Details: Canon 5d Mark II, 70-200 f/4l @ 70mm, f/8, 1/60 sec.
This photograph can be viewed on my website: Mt. Rushmore and the Avenue of Flags

Sunrise on the Presidents

Sunrise on the Presidents

Technical Details: Canon 5d Mark II, 70-200 f/4l @200mm, f/8, 1/50 sec.
This photograph can be viewed on my website: Sunrise on the Presidents

Washington\'s Profile
Washington’s Profile

Technical Details: Canon 5d Mark II, 300 f/4l, f/8, 1/1000 sec.
This photograph can be viewed on my website: Washington’s Profile

How to Chisel More Image Detail Out Of A Photo of Mt. Rushmore

Mt. Rushmore Sunrise

There are many resources on the Internet that explain how to create a panoramic photograph utilizing mainly wide-angle lenses. In fact, I have yet to read an account of someone using anything longer than about 70mm for panos. The goal of most panos is to show an elongated landscape photograph, giving the image a width or height that is not achievable with the lenses while at the same time preventing some of the perspective issues that may arise with using an ultra wide angle.

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