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| 05-22-2014, 11:37 AM | #4731 |
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I got to mess around with a one of a buddy's x-t1 (he's one of our second/third shooters) at our friend's wedding in costa rica. Since i was in the wedding party there was no way i was going to lug a whole dslr kit, just going to let the photogs do their job with as little interference as possible, we only brought an x100 and an x-t1 with a little glass. The x-t1 evf is really something else.
Anyway a quick star shot i took when i got back to the room. I wasn't sober enough to operate a tripod but was able to aim it sufficiently and mount my x100 on the room service menus.  |
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| 05-22-2014, 01:53 PM | #4732 |
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Nice! I took some similar shots from my hotel balcony near Yosemite last week. I haven't gotten that far yet to see how they came out. We did have a tripod set up, but there was also a lot of beer involved, so who knows?
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| 05-22-2014, 02:00 PM | #4733 |
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Again using the big Tammy with the 7D, this is a 150mm shot from the wedding lawn at the Ahwahnee, shooting up to the left side of Royal Arches. Two climbers are actually rappelling down from the top here, about 1000 feet above the valley floor. During a normal year, that waterfall to the left would still be flowing strong at this time of year.
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| 05-22-2014, 02:03 PM | #4734 |
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| 05-22-2014, 10:06 PM | #4735 |
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So astro photography is not my thing. Not that I don't like it, but I have no idea what I am doing. Still, with some pizza, beer, and a couple of cameras and tripods, my friends and I gave it a try from the hotel balcony. This the the MK III using the 16-35L
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| 05-22-2014, 11:52 PM | #4738 |
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For a pizza loaded drunk attempt, you got a satellite! I think I've only gotten one and neither pizza nor beer was on the menu.
It's very pretty up there. I always try for night sky shots when over 4,000 feet.
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| 05-23-2014, 05:13 AM | #4739 |
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Very nice, but guess you can crank the ISO more to get even brighter/more stars.
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| 05-23-2014, 01:39 PM | #4741 |
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I tried a few with a higher ISO, but then the trees ended up being overexposed from the hotel lighting. Ideally I will try sometime from one of the meadows in the park or even Glacier Point, far away from unnatural light sources. This was more of a just for fun shoot.
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| 05-23-2014, 01:53 PM | #4742 |
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This weekend is supposed to be good for meteorites. Might have to get out there tonight and try some shots.
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| 05-24-2014, 12:31 AM | #4744 |
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Fun pic from the top of Glacier Point. Lizards and squirrels everywhere. This sierra fence lizard posed form me:
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| 05-24-2014, 10:37 AM | #4745 |
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^^ Very cool!
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| 05-24-2014, 10:41 PM | #4746 |
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So probably to everyone's relief, I'm on to working on the shots from the last day of my Yosemite trip
I caught sight of this tree seemingly growing right out of the rocks on this waterfall. This is known either as Quaking Aspen Falls or just Tioga Pass Falls, and is usually dry by August, but more like late June this year.  Quaking Aspen Falls_HDR by lennycarl08, on Flickr |
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| 05-25-2014, 11:42 AM | #4747 |
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| 05-25-2014, 06:28 PM | #4748 |
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Canon 5D MkIII with 400mm f5.6 + 1.4x TCIII
Makes a decent macro even though I was 15ft away. 
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| 05-26-2014, 05:34 PM | #4750 |
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Thanks, Ed. One more from yesterday.
BFIF 
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| 05-26-2014, 06:15 PM | #4751 |
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I had my 500+1.4 combo on the 1DIV last night while having the first BBQ of the season in my back yard. I was hoping for some hawks, but spotted this little guy across the yard from me on one of my idle planter boxes. A close cousin to the sierra fence lizard I got in Yosemite, this is the more standard and very common western fence lizard
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| 05-26-2014, 06:59 PM | #4752 |
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Never seen a fence lizard. Plenty of lounge lizards, though.
  Nice shot, Ed. 
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