Brian, Like Dan says, great stuff! It's a big gallery, but facinating all the way thru. I love ths shot of the plane landing. Wow! Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > That is a fascinating gallery illustrating an unusual and scenic part > of the world. I especially love the last image, of the shadow of the > landing pane. Well seen and well rendered. > > Dan > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > > > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all >> >> First - thanks again to those who provided advice a month or so ago on >> photographing from a light plane. This flight was part of our recent >> trip to the 'red Centre' of Australia. >> >> The flight was in a Cessna 210, carrying 4 passengers plus the pilot. >> The lack of wing struts on this plane was a bonus for photography. The >> two biggest problems were reflections in the windows, which were >> difficult to avoid, and the mild jerkiness of the flight. I used my >> K200D with the 16-45 mm zoom attached. I had other lenses available but >> the cramped conditions made it difficult to change lenses, so I >> eventually gave up on the idea. As it happened, the 16-45 mm range >> proved to be pretty much ideal. My wife used an old Optio for the first >> part of the flight but it wasn't up to the job so she commandeered the >> *istDS with 50 mm f1.7 FA attached for the second half. Both of us shot >> in shutter priority mode with the speed set to 1/350 - 1/500 sec. >> >> I hope you enjoy this small selection: >> >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/Lake-Eyre/index.html >> >> Initially I was concerned about the lack of contrast in the images - >> they were generally 'flat' with a limited tonal range. A simple levels >> adjustment made a world of difference. The only other significant post >> processing was in getting rid of reflections which mainly affected areas >> of sky. I addressed this by sampling the colour of a section of the sky >> and applying a colour gradient layer, masked so that it applied to the >> sky alone. This tended to hide the reflections quite well. >> >> Overall, I was happy with the results. There are a lot of 'misses' but >> enough keepers to make me feel that the exercise was worthwhile. >> >> For those who are interested - some background. Lake Eyre is usually a >> huge, dry salt lake in the South Australian outback. It's catchment >> covers about one sixth of the Australian continent but it only fills a >> few times per century. In most years any rainfall in the catchment is >> lost by evaporation or to groundwater well before it could reach the >> lake. In 1964 it was the location for a successful attempt on the world >> land speed record by Donald Campbell. >> >> Over the past couple of seasons there has been abnormally high rainfall >> in the catchment, so much so that the lake is approaching full capacity. >> It's an iconic place to both Aboriginal people and the wider >> population. Most Australians would like to visit but it's in a remote >> location which is only accessible on land via 4WD, so there is a growing >> interest in flights over the lake. >> >> The Painted Hills extend over an area of about 200 sq km and are low >> hills in contrasting colours of white, red, brown and orange. They are >> not accessible by road and can only be seen from the air. >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Brian >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Brian Walters >> Western Sydney Australia >> http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> -- >> http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
