On 5/15/07, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Cassino wrote: > > >Well - if people start to exit early I'll attribute it to the sunset > and > >not my presentation. :-) > > A couple of notes to anyone planning on shooting the sunset at GFM: > > 1 - The best light comes just *after* the sun has set (so you *can* > stay to the end of Mark's presentation!)
I was just kidding about duking Marks lecture, of course.:-) Dave >A couple of years ago I cut > out of the Saturday evening talk to go up to the top of the mountain > for sunset. There were a bunch of people with tripods up at the top > parking lot. As the sun went below the horizon, all the other > photographers left and 10-15 minutes after sunset, when the light was > best, I was the only one up there (except for Annsan, who came with > me). I got one of my favorite GFM shots ever: > http://www.robertstech.com/pages/gfm_01.htm Same happened to Cory Frank and I last year. All the others were wondering why we were not tearing down and going when the sun went behind the ridge. Dave > > 2 - The nature museum and all the other permanent facilities on GFM are > on the west side of the mountain, so the mountain itself blocks > sunrise. It's difficult to get good sunrise shots unless hou hike out > about 3 miles along the mountain trails and camp out for the night. > (Which is what I do ever Thursday night before GFM weekend.) > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
