Thanks, Jack! I hope to do more hiking. Have already spent way too much time looking at photo hiking bags! :-)))) Cheers, Christine
On Sep 6, 2014, at 11:41 AM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Wonderful collection, Christine! Magnificent scale well caught. > > Jack > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christine Aguila" <[email protected]> > To: "PDML" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2014 8:48:43 AM > Subject: Re: The Grinch at Starved Rock State Park > > Thanks, Ann. There are fence guards at the top of the rock now. And stairs > have been built to get to the top. I’m sure you wouldn’t recognize the > place now. The rock was ok, but I preferred the canyon trails—much more > interesting. I really hope to do all. The place is open 365 days rain or > shine, snow or slush. January is supposed to be good for bald eagles. > > Cheers, Christine > > > On Sep 3, 2014, at 4:01 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ah - Starved rock! much visited in my childhood. You capatured it nicely >> and, I see, avoided what I called Acrphobia point - the actual >> Starved Rock... I clung to my mother's skirts holding her back from the >> edge... I can still feel the shivers. She just laughed but gently. >> I don't know if they have a fence there now... there certainly wasn't one in >> 1943. >> >> I love daddy-long-legs and like your shot of him - the shadows nice. >> >> What I do with white balance and the K-5 is set it on auto but chimp >> immediately the press the wb button to play with it before shooting more. >> Most of the time AWB does do it best, but sometimes definitely not so I like >> that feature... (not on the K-3??) Of course I've been >> known to forget I dialed in a specific WB and had to correct in Elements >> later. >> >> particularly like this shot >> http://www.caguila.com/rockaug312014/content/_IMG3178_large.html >> >> ann >> >> >> On 9/1/2014 16:44, Christine Aguila wrote: >>> Hi Everyone: >>> >>> Did a 5 mile hike at Starved Rock State Park yesterday. Starved Rock is >>> about two hours from Chicago, a very easy drive. Place was packed given the >>> Labor Day holiday, but we got there early, got our walk in, then left >>> around 2:30 for lunch and a walk around Utica, Illinois, a quaint little >>> town of a thousand with a three block Main Street area. >>> >>> I have a few questions: >>> >>> 1) My white balance setting, Shade, seems to capture a lot of yellow >>> forcing me to dial yellow down during post-processing. I wondered if other >>> K-3 shooters found this to their experience as well and what any >>> compensation techniques have been employed. >>> >>> 2). I may be getting Charles Robinson's Fastpack 250. On my hike I took the >>> Low >>> Pro MicroTrekker, which is a great fit on the back, but I find it a tough >>> bag to work out of, and it doesn't allow for a water bottle or much >>> personal items. It does have two bottom tripod straps, but I want a >>> vertical carry for the tripod on my next hiking camera bag. I hope to be >>> doing more hiking in future, so I find myself now in the market for a >>> hiking camera bag. If anyone has a nice hiking camera bag which can >>> accommodate gear and personal items, is not a sloppy fit, and has a >>> vertical carry for a tripod, I'd welcome the suggestions. >>> >>> 3). I didn't have my tripod with me on this trek because I'm actually an >>> inexperienced hiker and didn't know what to expect of the trails or my >>> ability, so I left the tripod at home. I will be taking it the next trip. >>> All the shots in the gallery were handheld. >>> >>> Here's my gallery from yesterday's hike. It was a wonderfully fun day, and >>> the park is really great. There are a lot more trails to explore, so I'm >>> most definitively going back. I've made some short and long term hiking >>> goals. >>> >>> http://www.caguila.com/rockaug312014/index.html >>> >>> Comments welcome. Cheers, Christine, and Happy Labor Day! >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
