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This is an Eastern Collared Lizard sunning on a rock along Scenic Byway 128 — right outside of Moab. Although these lizards pack a strong bite, they are actually very well mannered and often kept as pets. They prefer temperatures above 100 degrees F, so I guess your heating bill would be very large!
Tags: Eastern Collared Lizard, Moab, Utah
It’s super important to calibrate your main monitor when doing image work. I’ve known that for years, and I do so regularly. It’s also important to calibrate the monitor on the laptop. It’s not as accurate but it’s still important to do. I know that, I knew that, so why didn’t I do that? A million excuses among which was that the laptop was brand new and I only got it 2 days before we left. I’ll never leave home without calibrating the laptop again. I posted that image from the first day in Arches that was worked on in photoshop on the laptop. So you don’t need to scroll down here is what that image looked like straight from the laptop:
Image done on Laptop
That was Not what I had seen on the laptop…to me the image is way too saturated, contrasty and dark.
This is more of what I saw:
Redone Image with Calibrated Monitor
Much lighter, less yellow and red and full of contrast (and yes a different sig since for some reason photoshop on my XP home system doesn’t have as many fonts as my Vista laptop) and overall much more realistic.
Tags: Calibration, Moab, Photoshop
Well, we are on our way home from Moab now and we are Exhausted. Up every morning to drive to catch sunrise somewhere (so up at 5am), back for a nap some days, then out at 4pm to shoot 7:45 sunsets, and sometimes staying up way late to do some cool images. It will take us at least a few weeks to get the web-page up, Between us Mike and I have over 4500 images, over 32GB worth to sort and work on, so I’ll be posting some images here with a bit of commentary as will Mike until we get the web page posted.
Here’s a tidbit from the first day:
It’s a long trip from Salt Lake City to Moab, nearly 4.5 hours unless you trip over some not-so buried barbed wire after taking pictures of a cool windfarm. Then you end up spending 3 hours in the hospital in Price, Utah waiting to get a tetanus shot. I did a pretty good job of putting a 5 inch gash on my left ankle and impaling the back of my right leg although I didn’t perforate into the muscle. It’s been 8 years since my last tetanus shot so the ER doc thought it would be a good idea to freshen that up after cleaning the hole in my leg up. Now not only would I be limping on both legs (a neat trick) but my left arm was sore for the first 3 days from the injection. Still, much better than Lock-Jaw I say, and kudo’s to the staff at the hospital, they were efficient and really friendly.
The weather the first few days was rainy and cloudy, but not like what we tend to get at home. When I first heard about the weather I was thinking completely gray skies and sheeting rain. What Jon Fuller, the photographer who took us out to shoot on Monday and an awesome guy, said, was that the photographers in the area love that weather, it’s a break from the relentless blue skies. And after having 4 days of perfect skies after I realized how right he was, and how boring blue can be after a while. We got lucky as we drove into the park for the first time. It had just poured rain for about 20 minutes and the clouds were breaking up. As we approached the Courthouse Towers pullout the sun broke through the clouds behind us. The light lasted long enough to make this image:
Time to run. More to come soon.
Hali