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Quotedqniel
Haha. I love it. The LX3 and LX5 are great tools for the price if you're shooting landscapes. My LX3 has a failing CCD, however, which is making me quite angry. Had it for just over a year, and the CCD is only covered by warranty for 90 days, when I started seeing a vertical "hot" line of pixels in every shot at ISOs above 200. Now it's starting to happen at all ISOs.
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Photography advice, critiques and tutorials Quotehotrod4x5
I had their Sunday brunch about 5 years ago, and I don't know, it wasn't spectacular. Just about as good as most Sunday brunches I've had elsewhere.
Thanks. The only real problem, of course, is that there really aren't any other options for a higher-end brunch other than the Ahwahnee or leaving the park and going....where?
There's nothing too spectacular in Merced (believe m
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion My girlfriend is a finalist/winner at the Yosemite Renaissance and I haven't actually eaten at the Ahwahnee since I was maybe 12 or 13, but I thought I'd treat her, her sister and her sis's b/f to the full-on, no-holds-barred, exit-in-a-wheelbarrow brunch in celebration after the big opening this year.
I'm not really worried about the cost, but rather does how it look on paper (superb, IOW) ma
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quotedqniel
Not a bad idea. I could do the weekly thing. I don't have the loading issue since I have the cache in Firefox set pretty high, but I could see people without a large cache or with slower internet having issues. The weekly dividing could avoid that.
My original intent was for other people to partake and post a few daily photos, which could all be kept in one thread for easy acc
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Photography advice, critiques and tutorials I almost forgot: my g/f was chosen as on of this year's finalists in the above mentioned competition, which opens the weekend of Feb 25/26. Two photos of hers were selected for display and the national tour in May.
See if you can guess which two are hers.
http://www.yosemiterenaissance.org/
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Photography advice, critiques and tutorials Quotedqniel
Switching gears again, and back to 2007 for my first road trip. We went south through KY, TN, MS, and LA on our way to our first stop in Houston. Stayed with a friend for a few days there and then went onward, west through TX...
Open road
DSC01345 by dqniel, on Flickr
They like to paint on their hillsides there?
DSC01365 by dqniel, on Flickr
Ha! Lucky you! We j
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Photography advice, critiques and tutorials Not exactly really high mountains, but it was the last recent trip to a mountain-y area. THREE others (Big Sur, Texas and Owens Valley) in the past month were ruined due to really bad weather.
The Salton Sea.
Because of the MASSIVE layer of bird/fish shit right on the water line (which one discovers by walking up to it......) This.........
became this.....
The derelict North
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Photography advice, critiques and tutorials Quotedqniel
Mine tailings and subsequent acidic pollution in Leadville, CO:
Closeup of the corrosive power:
I've always wanted to go to Leadville. I've got a friend from HS who's crazy enough to compete in some insane endurance race they have there every year.
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Photography advice, critiques and tutorials Just picked up the LWA-52 attachment at Samy's Camera on Fairfax in LA on Thursday, for my trip today the Owens Valley, and I thought I'd try it out last night before we left this morning. I should have opened the box at the store. The coating on the outer lens has a tear/scar in it, and, as you'll see, it showed up in the photos. Grrrrrrrrr....... To top it off, Samy's is closed on NYD (toda
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Photography advice, critiques and tutorials Quotesteelfrog
Couple of questions:
When working in Manual with the LX5, do you use a tripod?
Second--have you tried (or thought about) using the filter that's available, which supposedly makes outdoor photog better?
http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-DMW-LPL52-52mm-Polarizer-Filter/dp/B001ISKNLE/ref=pd_sim_p_3
I almost always use a tripod w/the LX5, since landscape and architecture are w
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quotechick-on
Love the Cath Rocks photo.
You can see how getting up Mid. from Gunsight is ... rope gonna be required...
I use the Panny Lumix DMC-ZS7. IMO it's great for backpacking b/c it's
pretty small and lightweight. Fits nicely into a "modern day" backpack
hip belt pocket. I especially like the 12x Optical Zoom. As far as how good
of pictures it takes... I dunno... I'm
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quotesteelfrog
So--I have an LX-3. I was thinking maybe the LX-5, or waiting until the LX-7? Anyone have any ideas about a small camera that would be great for backpacking? Or anything that could allow for good pics. I like my LX-3, but it is somewhat limited in ability to get "different" pics such as long exposure, etc.
Argh. That's a whole 'nuther kettle of fish. There are INN
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quotechick-on
Berry nice. Thanks.
Couple comments.
First snow actually occured on Oct. 3rd. Maybe not in the valley but in Yosemite...
To me... photos are like food... very subjective. There are loads of Ansel Adams
photos which people love which I think are ho hum. I'm saying this b/c I've
thought this for awhile... and u keep mentioning ur pro g/f and implying ur photos
are far
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Just got back yesterday evening after a weekend for at Yosemite w/the g/f for the first snowfall of the year, and the weather did not disappoint. This was the first time ever for using my LX5, and everything was shot manual. I shot RAW and 'fine' .jpg, and everything here is .jpg, since I only have Silkypix and have zero idea thus far how to use it to my liking. Saturday night dumped another foot
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Just got back a few hours ago. Not so much yesterday by way of it actually snowing, but this morning, at Curry? MAN, did it snow overnight and catch a LOT of people unawares.
Good thing we chained up the jalopy before going to bed.
Pics to follow shortly.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion The g/f is insisting on a last minute photo trip over this weekend to finally get her coveted 'Valley in the snow' pics, and I can't seem to find how low down it's predicted to be.
Anyone?
See you in CC.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quotequmqats
How is it that those are in 16:9 instead of 4:3 aspect ratio?
Because my cameras can do 4:3, 3:2, 1;1, 16:9, you name it. Only a button push away. No cropping needed whatsoever.
Almost any good digital one can do that nowadays.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quotechick-on
That is The Rostrum.
Really liked your photos of this... (Middle Earth thread)
Thanks, and thanks for the name. These were (pretty obviously) taken the same day as the others.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quotechick-on
Thanks for sharing.
This is exactly why I'm hesitant to not just go even if the weather looks iffy.
We have seen the same show in winter.
It's worth the price of admission.
I'll be there at least twice this upcoming winter, although the east side gets most of our travel attention, and hopefully next time w/my xmas gift to myself, a new DSLR rig and system.
And since our
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quotechick-on
Quotetanngrisnir3
Just spent the weekend staying at Curry,
Did you go up El Cap Gully?
I went up to it, but it was quite wet, and I had no partner, so I decided that it was reasonable not to try it this time. Kicked around below the gunsight a wee bit, and it looks a lot more dicey in person than it does in some pics I've seen posted. As in, waaaaay more straight up, so to spe
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Just to show you folks what a great photographer (my g/f) with great equipment (a new Canon 5d) can do with the same material....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robinblackphotography/5136038064/#/photos/robinblackphotography/5136038064/lightbox/
Sorry, you'll have to click through, as her material is protected and I can't post it directly.
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Just spent this weekend up in the valley and MAN, the weather was like nothing I've ever experienced for photography, at least. We had the extraordinary good luck to stumble upon a series of shifting weather systems in the Merced River Valley as seen juuuuust after one of the tunnels by Cascade Creek. It was like looking at the cover of a 70's Yes album, something straight out of fairy land. T
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quoteeeek
As the only African American permanent ranger in Yosemite National Park in California, I often lament that I'm more likely to meet visitors from Japan or France than I am to see an African-American family from nearby Sacramento or Oakland.
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-10-29/opinion/shelton.johnson.yosemite_1_african-american-national-parks-park-boundaries?_s=PM:OPINION
Just spent t
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion Quotewherever
Quotebill-e-g
Going to the top of the fall and back from the notch is much
harder than just going to the top of Upper Cathedral. Much.
Can't stress this enough. It's a true bush whack, busting
thru manzanita and deadfall... esp. if you go up and down
directly from the notch. (I put one pict. of looking up at
where the notch is from just west of it... yummy)
Even when you
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Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion