Thanks. You set the bar pretty high on your visit, I had to cheat and spend more time. I did luck out on having clear skies on the nights I tried the astro and enough cloud for interesting sunsets.
I didn't know the astrotracer only works with auto focus. "Alunfoto - Jostein Øksne" <[email protected]> wrote: >You sure got a lot out of that week, Larry! > >My stay in Beatty was just one night; arriving after sunset and setting >out >early. I see I missed a good opportunity. Love that house on Beyond >Hope >Street. > >Is your Tamron an AF lens? AstroTrace only works with AF lenses. It's >sad >that the focal length info from SR does not carry over to AstroTrace. >:-( > >Jostein > >-----Opprinnelig melding----- >From: Larry Colen >Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 9:35 AM >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >Subject: Re: Photos from Big Sur, the desert and Death Valley > >Oops, I forgot the link the photos from Beatty Nevada: >http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157639419490396/ > >On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 12:17:41AM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: >> I just spent slightly less than a week on the road. I took my usual >> metric shitload of photos, a lot of which were just happy snaps and >> many were for stitching into panoramas if/when I have a chance. >> >> I did get a few that didn't suck too badly. >> >> I drove down to LA on Sunday by way of Big Sur, the weather was >beautiful, >> and >> the roads were clogged with tourists. In the future, I think that >I'll do >> my best to avoid Big Sur on weekends. I managed to spend a few hours >at >> Limekiln, which was one of my favorite places to go as a kid. >> >> Big Sur: >> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157639424720424/ >> >> We spent our first night in the desert in Mojave. That evening we >tried >> to >> find the site of Nowak's opal mine, were we used to hunt for fire >opal >> when I was a kid. We spent some time driving dirt roads in Lorry, my >> Dodge van. I had fun, Candace didn't really enjoy the off road >experience. >> >> I tried to use my astrotracer and the tamron 300/2.8 to get some >photos >> of Andromeda but failed miserably. I did play a bit with my Korean >fisheye >> though. >> >> The next morning we had brunch at the Voyager Cafe at the Mojave >> spaceport. >> That evening we drove as far a Lone Pine, which turned out to be far >more >> scenic than we expected and we ended up spending an extra day there. >> >> Desert: >> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157639424755274/ >> >> The following day we drove out Death Valley, getting in a little >shooting >> before sunset. I had fun trying to catch the new moon setting. >Didn't >> quite get the shot I wanted, but it was still fun. We spent the night >in >> Beatty Nevada, about 45 minutes out of the park, and surprisingly >> picturesque. That night we did some night photography in the ghost >town >> of Rhyolite. I played a bit with my astrotracer. >> >> Most of Friday was spent at Zabriskie Point, which is ridiculously >scenic. >> We got there in the mid afternoon. I think that for a lot of the >photos, >> the lighting would be best in the morning. The walk down to the >valley >> floor is much easier than it looks, and well worth it, especially in >the >> canyons to the left of the lookout, looking towards the desert. It's >> very easy to get beautiful shots of the gorgeous rock formations, but >> a bit more challenging to get shots that aren't monontonously >beautiful, >> all looking pretty much alike. >> >> I did manage to get a little bit lost on my way back out of the >> canyon, and climbing out of canyons, in the dark (albeit with >headlamp), >> up steep dirt cliffs, when overweight and out of shape was a special >> kind of fun. >> >> Death Valley: >> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157639424829284/ >> >> Candice has posted a couple of sets from her trip: >> Mojave: >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccmonty/sets/72157639413836205/ >> Red Rock Canyon: >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccmonty/sets/72157639412196866/ >> >> If I have some spare time, I may go back and process and post some >more >> photos from the trip. >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] >> http://red4est.com/lrc >> >> >> -- >> 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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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.
