Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I like them all. Absolutely gorgeous! I do think you should include the sky. Great work! Tina On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com>wrote: > I had photographed the upper falls moonbow a few years ago, so decided to > try something new and start at the lower falls. Hiked out to the bridge at > night to find a small group of photographers. I was 1 day early, and did > so on purpose because I had heard it gets crowded out there on full moon > day, even though for all practical purposes you could never tell the > difference. Besides, you don't have to stay up as late a day or two > before. > > This was actually the last shot I took as I had to climb out on some rocks > (in the dark) and had not wanted to interfere with the few serious > photographers that had been there. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s4/y/n/moonbow+lower+falls-0526.jpg.html > > A little closer view: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s4/y/n/moonbow+lower+falls-0524.jpg.html > > However, I find that perhaps one could think these were taken during the > day and just faked to look a bit darker. So, I think it is important to > include some sky so you can see it really is night. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s4/y/n/moonbow+lower+falls-0534.jpg.html > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s4/y/n/moonbow+lower+falls-0525.jpg.html > > What do you like? More or less sky? Or maybe you like no sky? > > Interesting side note. Quite a few non-photographers had wandered out to > the bridge after hearing of the moonbow, just to have a look. They, of > course, could not really see anything but a smear of white light. They > were inquisitive, and always being the science teacher, I showed them my > photos and told them that the light was too dim for most people to see any > color there at all. Looks rather plane with the naked eye, but the camera > does not have that limitation. Many whipped out there cellphones, but were > not successful in photographing the event. Then there were the flash crew, > but I won't comment further on them. > > On the night of the full moon we went to Cook's Meadow for the upper > falls. It was not a good year. Not that much water, so not that much > spray, and also, the angle of the moon this month must have been pretty > high, as the bow just barely showed up at the very base of the upper falls. > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s4/y/n/Upper+Falls+Moonbow-0680.jpg.html > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s4/y/n/Upper+Falls+Moonbow-0682.jpg.html > > I gave up and found a tree to add a bit of compositional variation to what > I was seeing. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s4/y/n/Upper+Falls+Moonbow-0684-Edit.jpg.html > > > All taken with D600 at 30 seconds, f/4. > > Note - darn hard to line things up through the viewfinder. I could see > well enough to get close then modify what I wanted. With live view all you > saw was a black screen. I also tried my wife's new Olympus D M10 and > could see absolutely nothing through the EVF. I was impressed with the > outcome at ISO 1200 for a 4/3 sensor. And of course, focusing to infinity > has the same problem and solution as with the D600. > > On one of these nights we tried prefocusing in daylight, switching the > lens to manual focus and taping the focus ring so it would not move. I > know my 24-120 has a sever focus shift when zooming and I loose infinity, > but I thought my 16-36 and my 70-200 were true zooms, but found out > otherwise. Good old trusty Leica 35-70/4, as stated in previous post. > > Comments welcome > > Aram > > > > > Aram Langhans > (Semi) Retired (retarded?) Science Teacher > & Unemployed photographer > > "The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself > would ever have dared dream." James D. Watson > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com