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Darren H
Beautiful shot of this icon Darren! I chuckled at your experience with the setting up the shot and dealing with the people there that you had on your blog - I feel your pain:) I've tried this shot a few times myself. Once I had the place to myself, once i was there with a couple
other large formatters and every other time I've tried I have been beaten by the weather or almost beaten by the crowds of dslr carrying folks who complained that me camera and myself were gonna be in their shot because I wasn't doing a wide shot like them and was much closer to the arch. Get up earlier I told them:)
This is the best I could do. I like yours better though. Same film, different lens (90mm grandagon @ f45) contact printed onto cibachrome
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erik
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Erik Larsen
Beautiful shot of this icon Darren! I chuckled at your experience with the setting up the shot and dealing with the people there that you had on your blog - I feel your pain:) I've tried this shot a few times myself. Once I had the place to myself, once i was there with a couple
other large formatters and every other time I've tried I have been beaten by the weather or almost beaten by the crowds of dslr carrying folks who complained that me camera and myself were gonna be in their shot because I wasn't doing a wide shot like them and was much closer to the arch. Get up earlier I told them:)
This is the best I could do. I like yours better though. Same film, different lens (90mm grandagon @ f45) contact printed onto cibachrome
regards
erik
Thanks all.
Yes, Mesa gets too crowded and telling people to "get up earlier" is good. I tend to get there 1-2 hours before sunrise, which is easy for me. I usually play around with light painting the arch.
AlexN, I think the secret is to have little to no sky in the image. My shot was set up to only have a faint gap right where the sun was and that is about it. If you leave a whole band of sky it is harder.
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Good grief. I was just there a few months ago, and this shot just makes me feel ashamed of myself.
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I have seen a lot of photos of this arch but this is one of the best.
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Thanks a lot Alex!! Would love to see your 6x17.
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Darren H.,
Great shot!!!!
I was there last fall, got up before sunrise, hiked in, set up (I had scouted my camera position the previous day), and waited. Five minutes before sunrise a German family of five set up their camp chairs directly in front of my camera. Asking nicely didn't do any good, I took German in college but it had a lot more to do with Fraulein Shultz in the front row than any desire to speak Tutonic languages. So, in deference to US/German relations I drove to the Colorado Overlook (grumbling the whole way). At the overlook I was totally alone, except for Ann and our great Pyrenees. Best shots of the trip!
Some days you just gotta make lemonade.
JD
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Tongariro track New Zealand - Red Crater with Mount Ngauruhoe (aka Mount Doom) in the background. You can't notice it that well in the web version but on the top right of the rim you can spot some people for a sense of scale.
Too bad Flickr sharpens the hell out of it - and definately need to look in profiling the scanner; Any suggestions for profiling software?
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6048/6...960a08c8_b.jpg
Chamonix 45N2 - Nikkor 300M - Provia100F
Tom
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teh first picture is really really good!
