Mostly K5II and the 16-50. Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Enjoyed these, Larry. Without detailing each shot, primarily, what >camera and lens? >Thanks. > >Jack > > >________________________________ >From: Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Sent: Sunday, January 5, 2014 12:07 PM >Subject: Re: Photos from Big Sur, the desert and Death Valley > > >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.
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