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10/23/2007 04:01:07 PM · #326 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by mpeters:
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End of day as we chased the light over a mountain pass. This group of aspens was lit for about 10 minutes and I thought they gave great contrast to the cool blue of the river and sky.
Not as sharp as I'd like...shutter was at 1/60th with my 70-200. We ran down to this spot from the road and I didn't grab my tripod because the light was fading. Used a polarizer and maybe a GND(can't remember) |
Great colour and light. I'd be almost tempted to crop off the top half of it, forget the mountain and bland sky and make it all about the trees and reflection of the trees and sky in the river. Simpler and just yellow and blue. |
Good Idea. I'll mess around with it some. The reflections are what catch my eye anyway. BTW, were you in Yosemite this weekend? Beautiful right now isn't it? another one |
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10/23/2007 04:07:39 PM · #327 |
Originally posted by mpeters:
Good Idea. I'll mess around with it some. The reflections are what catch my eye anyway. BTW, were you in Yosemite this weekend? Beautiful right now isn't it? another one |
yeah, I was there most of last week, from Monday through to Friday. The shot above is from last Wednesday. An amazing range of scenery, weather, temperature and light for one trip. 2 days in Death Valley NP, below 200 feet for most of the time. Hot. Dry. 95F+ during the day. Then up through Tioga pass at 9,500 feet, just between it being open after last weekend's snow and closing again due to snow on Tuesday. Sneaked in. Cold. High. Beautiful, then dropped down into Yosemite valley for 4 days - peak Autumn colour. Did a lot of hiking - the 13 mile valley floor loop, Tioga road to North Dome, out to Sentinel Dome from Glacier Point, a lot of Mariposa Grove. Beautiful, mid 70Fs, bit of rain, which kept the fall colours even more saturated and only stumbled across one bear. I was really surprised how great the colours in the trees were too. East of the Sierras was also pretty amazing colour. Then drove to Vegas. Whole other time zone, never mind season there. Wind / dust storm on Saturday night. Made for some funky light at sunset. Great trip.
Message edited by author 2007-10-23 16:10:44.
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10/24/2007 01:19:55 AM · #328 |
Day 23 - Our friend's dog has terminal cancer (probably about a week to live). They asked if I could do some photos tonight. Here is one of the shots. Hopefully they will like the rest once I am finished.
35mm, f/3.5, ISO 1250, 1.10s, +.3EV
Light coming from the standard house lights in the room, largest one to my back left.
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10/24/2007 02:00:52 PM · #329 |
Bright, hard sunlight, almost directly overhead in a clear, blue sky. I'm shooting partially through a water bottle held up close in front of a wide open lens, with a big aperture (about 35mm across) so I can still get plenty of sharp image, along with the blur/ diffusion/flare. Angled the bottle to catch the sun in the highlights.
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10/24/2007 05:41:00 PM · #330 |
| Very cool effect and idea Gordon. Shot is terrific as all your others. |
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10/24/2007 08:25:31 PM · #331 |
Oct 24
this guy scared me, so I shot him. |
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10/24/2007 08:30:05 PM · #332 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
Bright, hard sunlight, almost directly overhead in a clear, blue sky. I'm shooting partially through a water bottle held up close in front of a wide open lens, with a big aperture (about 35mm across) so I can still get plenty of sharp image, along with the blur/ diffusion/flare. Angled the bottle to catch the sun in the highlights.
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fascinating, Gordon. I just discovered this technique and intend to explore it deeply. I'm so glad you posted this. |
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10/24/2007 08:53:53 PM · #333 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
...only stumbled across one bear... |
Are you going to show us a photo of the bear in some beautiful light? Or did you have things other than photography on your mind at the time? :) |
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10/24/2007 10:23:09 PM · #334 |
Originally posted by sfalice:
Originally posted by Gordon:
Bright, hard sunlight, almost directly overhead in a clear, blue sky. I'm shooting partially through a water bottle held up close in front of a wide open lens, with a big aperture (about 35mm across) so I can still get plenty of sharp image, along with the blur/ diffusion/flare. Angled the bottle to catch the sun in the highlights.
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fascinating, Gordon. I just discovered this technique and intend to explore it deeply. I'm so glad you posted this. |
Here's some more along the same lines. in very different light. I sort of stumbled across the technique myself a few weeks ago. This is the first time I've applied it to a portrait - though happened to find other examples in between.
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10/24/2007 10:24:09 PM · #335 |
Originally posted by ErikV:
Originally posted by Gordon:
...only stumbled across one bear... |
Are you going to show us a photo of the bear in some beautiful light? Or did you have things other than photography on your mind at the time? :) |
This one do ? Though its from a couple of years ago, the last time I found a bear up closer than I'd like.
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10/25/2007 09:38:29 AM · #336 |
 
Taken about twenty minutes apart from essentially the same location and in the same direction. First, wide open, cloudless pre-dawn sky. Second the sun is just appearing over the horizon, raking side light giving the shadow and highlights as well as the real shift in colour temp.
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10/25/2007 10:44:23 AM · #337 |
I have not had time to take pics as I have had an eye infection for the last several days :( and right now I am typing this without my contacts in... see what a DPC addiction does to you? So here are two of my fave pics that I took for the Weekend Walkabout Challenge
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10/25/2007 03:24:44 PM · #338 |
Captured the great sunsets from this time of year
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10/25/2007 08:58:02 PM · #339 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
Taken about twenty minutes apart from essentially the same location and in the same direction. First, wide open, cloudless pre-dawn sky. Second the sun is just appearing over the horizon, raking side light giving the shadow and highlights as well as the real shift in colour temp. |
Fantastic, Gordon. And, having been there, I know it was quite a slog through sand and dunes (in what might be cold early morning temperatures) to get those images. |
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10/25/2007 09:00:25 PM · #340 |
Oct. 25
Pelican Choreography
I just found this on my hard drive and even though it is well outside the dates of this challenge, I had to show it off because of the terrific light on those birds.
When I took it I didn't know how to process it. So now, with a little more experience, I used levels, shadows & highlights and sharpened. And out they came! |
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10/25/2007 09:07:15 PM · #341 |
Originally posted by sfalice:
Fantastic, Gordon. And, having been there, I know it was quite a slog through sand and dunes (in what might be cold early morning temperatures) to get those images. |
It's beautiful out there, early. We were out well before sunrise (about an hour) and shot through sunrise and well to the point where the light got too harsh. Back at the road, another 30 minutes later, the tourist buses are rolling up. I always feel sorry for them in those situations - it was amazingly beautiful, just 2 hours earlier. Now it is just so much more bland.
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10/26/2007 01:41:13 AM · #342 |
Thrilled to get my new light gear, I had to try specular highlighting. Our bathroom happens to be painted with a metallic, shimmery paint.
I'm just getting used to the lights, but I'm lovin' em! |
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10/26/2007 09:28:33 AM · #343 |
Controlled burns in Yosemite meant there was quite a bit of smoke in the air. A fairly cloudy day with a lot of breaks was giving very patchy, interesting light too. Combined with the smoke, we were getting great corpuscular rays, hitting El Capitan. Standing up on Sentinel dome we had a great view of them and I asked Amanda to go and stand out on the edge (well, she isn't really on the edge, its more of a perspective thing) and I composed to use the rays as part of the shot. Shot 1 stop under the meter reading to get everything generally a bit darker and keep the sunlight spots.
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10/26/2007 09:40:20 AM · #344 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
Controlled burns in Yosemite meant there was quite a bit of smoke in the air. A fairly cloudy day with a lot of breaks was giving very patchy, interesting light too. Combined with the smoke, we were getting great corpuscular rays, hitting El Capitan. Standing up on Sentinel dome we had a great view of them and I asked Amanda to go and stand out on the edge (well, she isn't really on the edge, its more of a perspective thing) and I composed to use the rays as part of the shot. Shot 1 stop under the meter reading to get everything generally a bit darker and keep the sunlight spots.
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This shot is first rate, as I had already commented in another thread. The light is fantastic. I believe they are "crepuscular" rays, though... "corpuscular" is what pertains to corpuscles... :-)
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10/26/2007 09:51:38 AM · #345 |
Sorry I have not participated as much as I would. I left the lighting info on the image. thx. |
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10/26/2007 10:38:26 AM · #346 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
This shot is first rate, as I had already commented in another thread. The light is fantastic. I believe they are "crepuscular" rays, though... "corpuscular" is what pertains to corpuscles... :-)
R. |
That's what I get for listening to nobel laureates. You are right though, these aren't cosmic rays, just sun rays, so crepuscular is correct.
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10/26/2007 11:05:15 AM · #347 |
Kind of a busy shot, but the light is cool:
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10/26/2007 11:12:42 AM · #348 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
This shot is first rate, as I had already commented in another thread. The light is fantastic. I believe they are "crepuscular" rays, though... "corpuscular" is what pertains to corpuscles... :-)
R. |
That's what I get for listening to nobel laureates. You are right though, these aren't cosmic rays, just sun rays, so crepuscular is correct. |
Yes, once one reads the simple little explanation given here, the difference is perfectly obvious.
:-)) (I just could not resist posting this)
The two first kinds of rays, which consist of charged particles, have come to be called corpuscular rays. The question now arose, whether the cosmic radiation was a corpuscular radiation or whether it consisted of gamma rays. It was obvious, in order to settle this question, to examine the rays when passing between the poles of a powerful magnet. In the case that the rays consisted of charged particles, their paths would be changed by the magnetic field in different directions for various kinds of charge. If, on the other hand, they consisted of gamma rays, they would experience no influence from the magnetic field. ...
During these later years an intensive scientific research programme has been carried out concerning the nature and qualities of cosmic radiation. To this work Dr. Anderson has made important contributions. Thus it has been shown that the cosmic radiation consists to a large extent of corpuscles which with enormous energy and velocity enter the atmosphere from all parts of the universe. Positive and negative electrons exist in this radiation in about the same quantities, but the positive electrons soon disappear after having entered the atmosphere, because they coalesce with the atoms. Dr. Anderson has studied the distribution of energy in the cosmic radiation and the loss of energy sustained when it passes through matter.
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10/26/2007 11:20:07 AM · #349 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by ErikV:
Originally posted by Gordon:
...only stumbled across one bear... |
Are you going to show us a photo of the bear in some beautiful light? Or did you have things other than photography on your mind at the time? :) |
This one do ? Though its from a couple of years ago, the last time I found a bear up closer than I'd like.
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Thanks much! Nice to see a photo of a bear out in the wild rather than all of those zoo shots we usually see (like mine):
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10/26/2007 11:30:59 AM · #350 |
Originally posted by ErikV:
Thanks much! Nice to see a photo of a bear out in the wild rather than all of those zoo shots we usually see (like mine) |
At least that previous time I was in a car. Sure the bear could tear the door off it or whatever, but I sure felt a lot safer knowing we could get away. Standing there, out in the open, on a remote trail, 10 yards from the bear, was quite intense.
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