Some nice photos. Most enjoyable. Love the Big Sur coast and many of the desert pics.
I had breakfast at the Voyager a few times when I was travelling back and forth from L.A. to Mammoth Lakes during a long commercial shoot. Fun place. Are the airlines still parking out of service planes in the dessert. Paul On Jan 5, 2014, at 2:32 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 05:57:21AM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote: >> Wow, some really delightful shots in there, Larry; especially from the >> Big Sur and Death Valley sets. >> >> You really should spend some time with local contrast enhancement on >> some of those landscapes to make the colour and contrast pop more. >> They are very well framed but look a bit flat. > > Interesting thought. I had considered bumping up the contrast, but > that made thepicture look a bit fake, silly me, I hadnt thought about just > doing with the adjustment brush. > > > >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> 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. >> >> >> >> -- >> -bmw >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
