Land's End
Mar. 9th, 2009 12:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tugrikMy photo-gear is very studio/event oriented. Everything is lugged about in shippable Pelican hard-cases. While this makes it easy to ship it all to a convention it's not terribly handy for recreational use. Now that I'm shooting with a 5DmkII I keep finding I want to take it out of the studio and actually go places with it. This dovetails well with how I feel more mobile lately.
On Saturday I finally got around to picking up a little travel bag; a tiny little Tamrac "t-style" one. It's just enough to hold the camera body with my main knockabout lens (the 24-70/2.8), two batteries, the charger and one expo-disc. It's got a shoulder-sling on it and a good handle, so I can just toss it in the car whenever I head out.
Being a Saturday of most exceptional weather,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
revar and I decided to take a little drive up along the coast to Land's End, with a stop at a wonderful Brazilian BBQ restaurant on the way home. Sure, it was only a few hours out in semi-local areas, but it felt so good compared to the many days cooped up at home of late. We took a lot of photos but most of them were of things like waves and seagulls, giving both of our cameras a good workout to re-learn lots of things we'd forgotten about them.
I did get one good picture, though. Taken a full 45 minutes after sunset, it was dark enough that I couldn't see the water's edge that shows up so clearly in the photo. The 5D2 is far better in low light than I'd given it credit for, since I normally just use it under strobes. It did a great job holding on to the colors between the darkened shore and Venus glowing in the sky above.
Land's End, 7pm, San Francisco, CA
Be warned before clicking on the full sized image: it's 21MPix in size. :) It's actually a composite of three images, trying to pull the best of each frame out into one. You can only really tell by the motion of the ship on the extreme right-hand side of the frame.
This was also the first time I took the new laptop outside. While it's a little awkward to actually use in the lap due to the size, it's workable. The long battery life meant I had no worries about how long I kept fussing with it. Since it's my main graphic workstation I could actually play with the HDR tools and other editing while in the field, then re-take any shots that weren't working.
Here's to hoping that over the coming spring and summer months I'll get out a lot more than I did the year before... and this time have a good camera with me to document the trips.
On Saturday I finally got around to picking up a little travel bag; a tiny little Tamrac "t-style" one. It's just enough to hold the camera body with my main knockabout lens (the 24-70/2.8), two batteries, the charger and one expo-disc. It's got a shoulder-sling on it and a good handle, so I can just toss it in the car whenever I head out.
Being a Saturday of most exceptional weather,
revar and I decided to take a little drive up along the coast to Land's End, with a stop at a wonderful Brazilian BBQ restaurant on the way home. Sure, it was only a few hours out in semi-local areas, but it felt so good compared to the many days cooped up at home of late. We took a lot of photos but most of them were of things like waves and seagulls, giving both of our cameras a good workout to re-learn lots of things we'd forgotten about them.I did get one good picture, though. Taken a full 45 minutes after sunset, it was dark enough that I couldn't see the water's edge that shows up so clearly in the photo. The 5D2 is far better in low light than I'd given it credit for, since I normally just use it under strobes. It did a great job holding on to the colors between the darkened shore and Venus glowing in the sky above.
Land's End, 7pm, San Francisco, CA
Be warned before clicking on the full sized image: it's 21MPix in size. :) It's actually a composite of three images, trying to pull the best of each frame out into one. You can only really tell by the motion of the ship on the extreme right-hand side of the frame.
This was also the first time I took the new laptop outside. While it's a little awkward to actually use in the lap due to the size, it's workable. The long battery life meant I had no worries about how long I kept fussing with it. Since it's my main graphic workstation I could actually play with the HDR tools and other editing while in the field, then re-take any shots that weren't working.
Here's to hoping that over the coming spring and summer months I'll get out a lot more than I did the year before... and this time have a good camera with me to document the trips.
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Date: 2009-03-09 07:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-09 08:27 am (UTC)A new one is soon to open up next to my favorite little dragon-themed restaurant, E&O Trading Company, in downtown San Jose. Once it opesn I'll be sure to let you know if it's any good!
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Date: 2009-03-09 02:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-09 08:34 am (UTC)So if you don't mind me asking a couple questions here in your livejournal... do you think that the 5DmkII efficiently uses its pixels? I'm curious because I mostly take pictures of animals, so I need sharp fur/feather/scale detail for me to be pleased. Haven't been able to find any full-res close-up-on-fur photos from that camera yet. And are the features and such really worth the price tag? I know I wouldn't use the video features, so I'm wondering if it's even worth it. Otherwise I'm just going to snag myself an XSi and wait another year or two for the price to drop.
If you could share your thoughts I'd be very thankful. :)
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Date: 2009-03-09 02:07 pm (UTC)Especially because it is snowing outside. Again.
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Date: 2009-03-09 03:01 pm (UTC)... Ok, is Monocerosmedia gonna offer poster-sized prints?
If so, where does the line form?
- krin
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Date: 2009-03-09 03:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-09 07:06 pm (UTC)Anybody want to take a stab at interpreting the data?
(from http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar)
From 37°46'48"N 122°30'49"W @ 2009-03-08 2:57:00 UTC: Right Distance Ascension Declination (AU) Altitude Azimuth Sun 23h 14m 38s -4° 52.4' 0.993 -10.114 91.667 Set Mercury 22h 7m 17s -13° 47.6' 1.261 -28.743 94.650 Set Venus 0h 45m 24s +12° 43.3' 0.332 18.483 91.987 Up Moon 8h 42m 8s +18° 18.1' 57.4 ER 47.946 -74.569 Up Mars 21h 48m 45s -14° 24.7' 2.252 -32.748 97.129 Set Jupiter 21h 7m 28s -17° 3.3' 5.890 -42.344 101.792 Set Saturn 11h 21m 2s +6° 39.6' 8.394 9.934 -90.758 Up Uranus 23h 32m 57s -3° 42.9' 21.088 -5.788 89.781 Set Neptune 21h 48m 54s -13° 35.5' 30.944 -32.235 97.889 Set Pluto 18h 12m 24s -17° 41.8' 31.856 -69.363 165.223 SetA really GREAT viewer: http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Yourhorizon
Plug in:
[x] Universal Time [2009-03-08 2:12:00]
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Azimuth [Degrees:] [270° (W)]
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Latitude [37°46'48"] [x] North [ ] South
Longitude [122°30'50"] [ ] East [x] West
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Date: 2009-03-09 07:32 pm (UTC)Click for: View toward horizon
from 37°46'48"N 122°30'50"W, azimuth 270° (W)
at Sun 2009 Mar 8 2:57 UTC (http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Yourhorizon?lat=37.7800&ns=North&lon=122.514&ew=West&fov=45.000&azimuth=270.000&date=1&utc=2009%2D03%2D08+2%3A57%3A00&jd=2454898%2E59167&azideg=270%B0+%28W%29&coords=on&moonp=on&deepm=6%2E5&limag=6%2E5&starnm=3%2E5&starbm=4%2E0&showmb=%2D1%2E5&showmd=6%2E0&terrain=on&terrough=0%2E7&imgsize=512&scheme=0&elements=)
- krin
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Date: 2009-03-09 06:05 pm (UTC)~S
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