Mark Roberts 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!) 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 > >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.) > > > > Mark Roberts 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!) 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 > > That reminds me, I meant to put that shot of you taking that shot on line somewhere... :) I got a fair shot from the parking lot myself, but nothing as striking as yours.... Paul Stenquist made me a nice print of it... ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
