Jonsrud Viewpoint
As I've mentioned here before, Jonsrud point is one of my favorite places at sunrise. This particular morning the view out toward the mountain was a bust, but I hung around for a good hour afterward and as the sun broke over the top of the clouds, everything lit up in Oregon Summer Sunrise light. This iimage is from my latest couple rolls of film from my Hasselblad.
I'm not sure what species of flower this is, and not for a lack of Googling. If you know, enlighten us in the comments!
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Here's an outtake from my morning at Jonsrud Point last month.
With my kids out of town I got up at 4:30 and drove out to Jonsrud point in Sandy yesterday. I've been reading about stitching together multiple images and thought I'd try my hand at it. I really like the detail in the mist over the green field just below the mountain.
This particular image is made from 12 images shot at 75mm on my OM Mount Soligor macro zoom. I stitched them in Lightroom and it couldn't have been more simple.
Roughly 14mp crop from the middle to show detail
The resulting image after cropping is 62.5 megapixels. Before cropping it was 74! I put together a couple other versions that were all aligned pretty well with almost no crop needed, but this is actually the photos from 2 different sets so it wasn't aligned quite as well. I'm looking forward to doing some of these with even more images, but this was a fun first try.
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I had a couple mornings with no kids in the house and was able to visit Jonsrud lookout in Sandy both days. The first day, I saw the sky light up beautifully while I was driving. Clearly I hadn't gotten started early enough. The fog was moving in waves that day though. It was beautiful and looked alive.
Today I was there with a whole bunch of other photographers, but the cloud cover kept out the color and the fog was largely absent. I met a couple new folks and though it was a bust photographically, it was a great start to the day.
I took a quick drive with my two youngest kids this morning to catch the sunrise at Jonsrud point in Sandy. We got a few shots of the sun lighting up the side of the mountain as it was rising a little to the South.
Mt Hood Jonsrud Sunrise | 50mm, f/6.3, ISO 100, 1/320
We met another photographer who was just finishing up and had driven a lot further than we had to try to get some shots of Comet ISON. His name is Chip McAlpineand he has made some really fantastic astrophotography images.
Always fun to meet other folks who don't mind getting out in the cold and the wind for a good image!
I wasn't planning on getting up early again this morning, but I woke up at 6 sharp and there was no fog when I pulled back the curtain to peek outside. No view of Mt Hood, which is usually front and center from this viewpoint, but the fog and the cloud layer lit up really nicely for a good 20 minutes.
Just click on one of the links below the image for a full-size desktop or iPad image.
Edit- I uploaded a new version of the large image this morning as the older one had a glitchy artifact on the right hand side.
So after yesterday, and a few cold, clear evenings this winter wishing I was in a better location for it, I decided to be intentional about getting a good clear image of Mt Hood right at twilight. I looked around online and discovered Jonsrud viewpoint in Sandy. There were 5 other photographers that had the same idea.
When I was processing these I just couldn't decide between color and B&W. I went with one of each. I think each is complimented well by the choice.
The first was made using my Soligor OM Mount 75-205mm at f/8. The second is with the Sony 18-55mm at f/8.
