some day i'll shoot something other than this one plant, but until the cold weather stops i'm not buying more flowers. hopefully next week.
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I have enjoyed my trips to Alaska, for one meeting on Elmendorf AFB my son went along, it was in June and we went fishing for salmon. We had to leave at 3am to get to the boat in time, and is was like daylight!
My dad was stationed at Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage Alaska when I was a kid (10 yrs old). While there we had a J3 Cub with the tundra tires. My Mom and I used to cram in the back seat and off we'd go to land on a sandbar and go fishing. I remember my Dad went hunting one time and bagged a moose. We had moose steak, moose burger, moose sausage for what seemed like forever. The all day nights and the all day days took some getting used to. Hated the "no seeums" but loved it all. Course there was one little hiccup, 1964 Good Friday Earthquake. The second largest earthquake ever recorded, 9.2. Have you ever seen the ground roll like swells in the ocean? I have. That was my first experience with earthquakes. The second time was the day after returning from a tour with the MFO in the Sinai. Met my wife and kids who were staying in her parents house in Los Gatos, CA (down the peninsula from San Francisco)...her parents were in South Carolina...lucky them. Their house was up in the hills perched on the hill so to speak. Got to experience the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. DeJaVu all over again. Think I may be done with earthquakes. Now I'm in Georgia and I get to play hide and seek with hurricanes.
Figure which is the best season for Northern Lights in Sweden, then travel North and spend perhaps 2 weeks over there. I am lucky for not having to travel too far from my house in central Alaska. Sometimes all i have to do is step to my backyard and take photos
By the way, I don't use in-camera noise reduction. I do that with NIK's "Dfine2" on my iMac. A lot of people use high ISO, which in turn makes the foreground very bright. That's is OK too, but I prefer to edit my photos so the the foreground's brightness is somewhat similar to the way it looks when I take the photo. In this case, the foreground is darker. Also, if the lights are too bright, it is easy to blow the highlights, so what I do is to either bring the ISO down, or close the lens aperture further. Since I use Av (aperture priority), it's much easier for me to close/open the lens aperture as needed. This time there was moonlight, so instead of using 1650 (or so) ISO, I set it to 1250, and still closed/opened the Tokina 16-28mm lens' aperture as needed.
First I set the camera to M (manual mode). The R6 setting for animals I saved it to C1, then the one for people on C2, and the ones for the Auroras on C3.
The problem is that I have some many photos...I don't remember which ones I have posted (other than this one, of course)
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Wow! That was a big earthquake, and you made it through! Some of my friends experienced that, but not my wife and I. I was stationed in Elmendorf in the late '70s early '80s, but have experienced some relatively big earthquakes in Fairbanks ad North Pole. Nothing like the '64 earthquake, however. One time during moose season about 20 miles from Minto, while standing on the "rocky knob" (very small hill) by the trail, there was a pretty good size earthquake at the fault line of Minto. For a second or two it felt as if the ground under my boots sank a fe inches deep, and then back up. it happened quite fast, but it was scary!
Another time I was on a ladder repairing the one of the eaves of my house. I was about 12-14 feet up the ladder, while my wife steadied it with her hands. All of the sudden the house started swinging back and forth, ad my wife says, "why is the ladder moving that way?" I just almost ran down the ladder, and told her, "look at how the trees are moving with the house. It's an earthquake!" We still laugh about that one
None growing in the garden yet? We have a lovely selection. Hope to be out with the camera later if Mrs AFB gives me a break from digging!
AFB is a place? I thought it was just an abbreviation of my name!
They are so beautiful we don’t mind if you post some of them twice!Figure which is the best season for Northern Lights in Sweden, then travel North and spend perhaps 2 weeks over there. I am lucky for not having to travel too far from my house in central Alaska. Sometimes all i have to do is step to my backyard and take photos
By the way, I don't use in-camera noise reduction. I do that with NIK's "Dfine2" on my iMac. A lot of people use high ISO, which in turn makes the foreground very bright. That's is OK too, but I prefer to edit my photos so the the foreground's brightness is somewhat similar to the way it looks when I take the photo. In this case, the foreground is darker. Also, if the lights are too bright, it is easy to blow the highlights, so what I do is to either bring the ISO down, or close the lens aperture further. Since I use Av (aperture priority), it's much easier for me to close/open the lens aperture as needed. This time there was moonlight, so instead of using 1650 (or so) ISO, I set it to 1250, and still closed/opened the Tokina 16-28mm lens' aperture as needed.
First I set the camera to M (manual mode). The R6 setting for animals I saved it to C1, then the one for people on C2, and the ones for the Auroras on C3.
The problem is that I have some many photos...I don't remember which ones I have posted (other this this one, of course)
Cherry blossoms in downtown Stockholm/Sweden.
Canon EOS R5 - RF 85mm f/1.2 L USM
Canon EOS R5 - RF 85mm f/1.2 L USM
Figure which is the best season for Northern Lights in Sweden, then travel North and spend perhaps 2 weeks over there. I am lucky for not having to travel too far from my house in central Alaska. Sometimes all i have to do is step to my backyard and take photos
By the way, I don't use in-camera noise reduction. I do that with NIK's "Dfine2" on my iMac. A lot of people use high ISO, which in turn makes the foreground very bright. That's is OK too, but I prefer to edit my photos so the the foreground's brightness is somewhat similar to the way it looks when I take the photo. In this case, the foreground is darker. Also, if the lights are too bright, it is easy to blow the highlights, so what I do is to either bring the ISO down, or close the lens aperture further. Since I use Av (aperture priority), it's much easier for me to close/open the lens aperture as needed. This time there was moonlight, so instead of using 1650 (or so) ISO, I set it to 1250, and still closed/opened the Tokina 16-28mm lens' aperture as needed.
First I set the camera to M (manual mode). The R6 setting for animals I saved it to C1, then the one for people on C2, and the ones for the Auroras on C3.
The problem is that I have some many photos...I don't remember which ones I have posted (other this this one, of course)
Thank You for your answer. (This forum is amazing)
The shooting technique is spot on, given your results. Fantastic.
Remember trying to take a picture of the full moon a couple of years ago and I was thinking "Got to be really high ISO and a wide aperture" So, there I was, shooting at f/2.8 and ISO like 3200 and as you'd expect the results wasn't that impressive
The moon on a bright da... night is really really bright. So when at f/11-16 and a somewhat faster shutter speeds at ISO 100 the images turned out quite well if I recall correctly.
And, about my favorite subject, the northern parts of our world (and nowadays even the most southern parts as well) it's on my to-do-/wish-list post covid-19.
I'm watching all kind of YouTube videos from Alaska, Greenland, Island, Svalbard, and the latest "addiction", the various tours on Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. You'd all perhaps think I might be a bit biased living in Sweden and it's a bit of a myth that we have ice bears running around the streets
That's in fact true when speaking about Svalbard. I think my fascination of this subject began somewhere around the time the movie about Christopher McCandless came out. The guy that went out alone in Denali National Park, practically without any form of gear or supplies.
Perhaps not having much technical or aesthetic merit but I have always enjoyed looking at this. Taken in Chengdu which was so relaxed in comparison with BJ and other big cities. Parasols, pet dogs and bicycles were everywhere, although not usually all together.
Shot from moving car with Sony Compact DSC-W270 in September 2009
Shot from moving car with Sony Compact DSC-W270 in September 2009
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A portal in the park. Or just an interesting place to have a rest.
If you step through you go to PX-6.1.7.18
Bogart having trouble getting the feather that landed on his nose.
Camera on iPhone XR. Focal length 4.25 mm, F number f/1.8, Exposure time 1/49.
Camera on iPhone XR. Focal length 4.25 mm, F number f/1.8, Exposure time 1/49.
This was Bo taken a week ago- taking his usual car ride and soaking up the sun.
Well I'm in between. We had a cool snap and some freeze warnings this week so not much out there. We are past daffodils and tulips but in a lull till the warmer weather flowers start. this purple guy is a ranunculus that I bought to put in the garden but it hasn't gotten planted yet since we are still on the edge of frost date. I actually think I will plant them today. We warm up again on Tuesday and hopefully that's the actual end of the just past freezing temps. I can handle 40s (7ish for you) but it's too late in the year for this freezing and frost crap.
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From a few days ago. The 'grain' in the sky was unintentional, but I like the effect.
