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Since digital took over, I can't even get a person who actually wants to learn how to take pictures interested in FILM.
Film teaches discipline and how to tell good pictures from bad. When I shot Weddings, the bride wanted good photos NOT 600 bad photos.
Learning how to 'edit' yourself before the shot is key to fewer / better shots. The guy that goes on vacation and comes home with a memory card full of stuff can either bore everyone to near-death OR can edit down to a manageable number of good shots and keep everyones interest.
Today, the KEY is what is called 'workflow'. I have NOT taken a single shot which I couldn't improve by a session in photoshop. This is STARTING with a fundamentally good, strong photo.
Someone on this thread mentioned color balance. I shoot primarily in RAW and adjust color balance IN SOFTWARE. And dependinging on how much time / effort, you can do wonders with a well conceived shot that didn't 'work' straight from the camera.
Here's a shot I took on Holiday in Hawaii. The original is good. I simply punched up the color using 'Vibrance' and added a LITTLE sharpening (don't overdo!) and before printing made sure I added the printers profile so I got EXACTLY what I saw on my (calibrated) monitor.
Just like a good Stereo, system synergy and compatibility is important. Attention to detail rules.
The 14x60 version of this print KILLS.
Too much is never enough
...Lookin' out my front door:
Later Gator,
Dave
Later Gator,
Dave
The Idaho Peak in British Columbia is quite a hike as well with a peak elevation of around 8,000 ft. on top of the Selkirk Mountain ranges.
What I like about this area once you reach the summit is the smell of fresh glacier air from the nearby Kokanee Glaciers, which along with Idaho Peak is also famous for trail hikers for those who wants to explore the east Kootenay region.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
40, gulp, years ago I was a terror with an Olympus OM-1, a few lenses and various kit. Landscapes, Zoo animals, a little arty stuff...you know.
Nowadays I take snaps with a Canon A630 digital. Easy to take, easy to edit and print but when I try to capture the lighting or details of a forest scene with the Canon, I get Blah!
My kids have a $1500 Nikon DSLR that's so complex and cumbersome they never use it.
Used to be, you could go into a big camera store and buy good used semi-pro stuff. Are there cameras as easy to use and control as the OM-1 but digital and don't cost a fortune? $500, maybe?
Compared to film, "cameras" these days are handheld computers with lenses. That's why they cost so damn much, although $500 will get you well into the game.
and set up to your heart's content & your tolerance level. Or, you can put some or all adjustments on auto and the camera will blow you away with the results. For instance, my Nikons have, in their memory, 30,000 pix that cover all manner of various scenes and lighting and shadow.
If I put it into mostly auto settings the camera compares what I snap with all that memory and matches the final auto settings to emulate the closest of the 30,000. In a nano second!
Probably 80% of the time I leave White Balance in Auto. I always use Auto Focus. ISO I will set myself but use P mode probably 50% and Aperture 30% and Shutter 5%, Manual the balance of the time.
You should get your Son's camera and learn to play with it. You will likely be amazed at what it can do and what you can be taught by using it. That said, I will never use many of the features of my Nikons but that has been true of every Nikon I have owned since the 1960's. Better to have more than I can use than to find out I have less than enough.
Learn by trying new things....all my life I was told do not shoot into the sun directly, I have spent a lifetime doing just that...Thus I can show what a wildfire does to a sunset..
Nikon DSLR is a good camera. The trick of the trade is, buy the best lens that you can afford...and then practice...practice and experiment until you find the range of the camera’s optimal operation.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
I took this photo during my fishing trip at Columbia River last year using just my Blackberry Q10 cellphone, which I thought captures the ambiance of the day....
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
We can get image quality like that from our cell phones.
Snap a pic, send it instantly, then call, "Hey did you see this? Cool, huh?"
My God. How far we have fallen ...
breathtaking view. I plan to get up that way, maybe in the Spring...If all is well here abouts.
If you ever visit the area do not forget to bring a truck load of films for your camera...hmmm... never mind.
BTW, spring is not an ideal season to hike along these areas, unless you don`t mind the Grizzlies joining you, which I am sure leisure hiking are not the first thing that come in their minds, but looking for food to feed their young. The best time of the year to hike are summer and fall.
Do not forget to visit the Slocan Lake.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
479 pix with the Nikon with the 150-500MM lens and around 1400 for the other Nikon body! If need be I can stick a second card in the first body or put bigger cards in each of them...(they hold 2 cards each). All this while shooting RAW. If I did JPEG it would be a great deal more pix...
Or, I can shoot with one card getting a RAW image at the same time the 2nd card gets the same image in JPEG...
Whew....modern tech, how fun it is...
I am just warning you that you might need a truck loads of external hard drives to store those mega million pixel pics once you get here...Anyway, do not blame me if you suffer a camera clickinitis after a few days of hiking.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
Above treeline are the most spiritual places I've known. I hate to come down.
And never the least reason is that I usually bust my ass to get there.
It's totally strange to drive up in those few places where roads go up. Here in the Rockies, we have Pikes Peak and Mount Evans in CO. When I was living in AK, treeline was much lower down because of the northern lats, so a couple of hours of slog got us up over the timber.
I assume that's Shasta or thereabouts in your shot.
I have only experienced a few. Tioga Pass in Yosemite is 10000 feet. Wolf Creek Pass in southern Colorado I think is 12000. I'm sure there's more. Here in Southern California the dirt road that goes up to Toro peak is about 8500. In So. California is the Palm Springs tram which goes up to probably nine thousand. it's so nice to get a road that goes up that high.
Here in SoCal, if you want to go 'above the tree line', I'd try San Gorgonio Wilderness. The TOP of the TOP is 11,502 and is QUITE the long hike. Sign in when you get there.
Down Below is Toshe's Tarn. A huge bowl shaped Dry Lake. Like a Huge version of a football stadium, only no seating and NO footprints.
There is a long '10,000 foot ridge' which features spectacular views from those parts sticking up a little, like Anderson Peak. Water's a LOT scarce so bring plenty and maybe somebody like me who knows where ALL the springs are.
I've been up there for the 4th of July once and could see fireworks from (almost) the Mexican border to Disneyland up in Anaheim. And THAN there was the brief but spectacular meteor fall as we were making our way back to camp.
Too much is never enough
Later Gator,
Dave
there are many roads that go up and over 14K. Your car will have no horsepower but the roads are incredible.
They call it a road, but I've turned back several times in all-wheel drive suv's, trying both east and west approaches. No Jeep, no pass for this kid. Nearby Weston Pass is lower but is passable. Lots of others. The only summit roads I know are Pikes and Evans, both above 14k.
In CA, a favorite road is in the White Mtns, east of Owens Valley (Lone Pine and Bishop), going up ~11k to a Bristlecone Pine preserve. It's fairly easy on car suspensions. Another spiritual place with views across to the eastern Sierras slope. Check that out if you're looking for a road trip. You won't be disappointed. Looking at gnarly tree stumps and trying to comprehend that they are thousands of years old will give you religion.
Just returned from Colorado yesterday. My son has driven the Mt. Evans road. He and I did Pikes Peak on Saturday. Palm sweaty kind of drive.
Will
Pikes Peak
being up there...
Oh yeah. Half the O2 from sea level.
Will
The south side trails in Bent Creek Forest climb toward and run parallel to and just below the Blue Ridge Parkway. They're heavily forested with a nice mix of Oak, Hickory, Poplar; Eastern, Loblolly and Pond Pine.
My favorite places are where, on a sunny day, shafts of light filter down into the forest from the Parkway and illuminate leaves, needles and the masses of Ferns on the slopes beneath your feet. All that's missing is the the voice of Charleton Heston saying "I Am What I Am" and see a burning bush.
and part of the Lassen National Forest (1700 Sq Miles). A place where I have found peace and contentment and not just a little awe.
Here in The Smokies I hike or pedal most days from 2150 to 2900 feet or so in a tough 45 to 60 minutes.
Hats off to those who climb the Rockies from, I would guess, 4000 feet.
cannot hike well with my presently broken left ankle! This is one of my favorite spots, about 100 feet from the road. The tree looks so forlorn.
This is at about the southern end of the Cascades, the longest mountain range in North America. I live about 15 miles from this spot...at...you guessed it right...4000 feet!
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