John Bennett
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Zach.
All I know about Sing Rays is that price wise they are top of the line, typically more expensive than the widely used B+W and Hoya’s. Their varied NDs sell for 340.00 at 77mmI plan on buying a ND or two if I dont get the Singh Ray varied, and in that event will likely buy Hoya’s Pro 1D NDs. I’m currently using their PRO 1D DMC CP and am more than happy with it. Although truth be told it sells for just 20 less than the Singh Ray 77mm CP.
So while Singh Rays may the “best” option, they certianly arent the only. The thing I cant decide is if I want 1 varied ND or two separte NDs like a 4 top and 8 stop.
Hoyas website and direct to Pro 1D filters
http://www.hoyafilter.com/products/hoya/pro1d-01.htmlIts hard to say for certain but in the shots with motion its looks to me like hes blowing the highlights and shadows.
Highlight are almost certainly blown here and the darkest shadows are clipped as well http://www.absolutely-nothing.co.uk/?cid=881 so Id guess filters. CP or NDs and then PS work I cant really guess at.
Here while the sun is blown ( as feat I cant avoid) the shadows are midnight black with no detail so again it looks like a single exposure with -ec bias. Id guess the histo is really pushing the left with a single spike to the far right. Again filters and or PS but I think both are single exposures
http://www.absolutely-nothing.co.uk/?cid=871Either way its some wonderful stuff.
Two girls myself. Fortunately my oldest loves all things nature/outdoors and despite entering her teen years where boys, shopping with friends, msn and cell phones rule. She’ll still drop anything and everything to get into the outdoors with me.
You have to admit its pretty slick of them. The interface from what I looked at seemed nice and Im sure for 2gig of free hosting there will be hundreds, maybe thousands of users, uploading hundreds of images.
Even if the signal to noise is extremely low (under3%) thats still potentially thousands of images to use in ay way they please with no comp to the photographer, not even credit.As far as I’m concerened the only “Con” to Toons is that they are slow from point A) to point B).
If you have alot of water to cover (not good if a weather system comes in unexpectedly) , or a long “paddle” to get where you want to be then there might be better options.. But those too have their own “cons” from stability to storage etc.As for Storage, my toon…. a 7′ water skeeter is currently in a closet, fits in the trunk of my small car easily, could be roofed assembled on our jeep. Depending on how much of a hurry Im in assembly/Disasembly takes anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes. The hotter it is, the slower I go on the dual action pump.
Stability?
Ive spent my life in a canoe and have no fear, none whatsoever of tipping one. Its only happened once in my life.My toon blows my canoe out of the water for stability. Ive done some kayaking and maybe Ive never used the right kayak but again, I cant imagine any yak being anywhere near as stable as a toon. First thing I did when I bought mine was assemble it, throw it in the pool, sit my 7yr old daughter in it and do everything I could think of to knock her out, from full vertical lifts at one end to violent rocking/thrashing…
She thought it was a blast.
So.
If getting from point A to point B is of concern there are better options. If storage, portability, comfort, stability are important its going to be tough, very tough to beat a Toon.ps ‘m thinking of buying a SoT fishyak just for those occassions where I want to cover alot of water or go for a paddle in big water like Lake Ontario.
I’m not overly fussy about copyright and such stuff. Anything thats spoken for or where rights might be an issue doesn’t get uploaded, so anything thats on the web is pretty much wide open.
Im changing things around a bit as I focus more on wildlife, hunting and fishing this year. If you see anything of mine that can form the foundation of an illustration just pm or email me.
http://jben.zenfolio.comedit
email link is on the home pageCS3 (PS) cost about $700.
Photoshop elements which has about 80% functionality and is considerably more user friendly cost about $120.00.Tim Im going echo what Chad said.
Bump your ISO, if you have to max it out. Some noise is better than motion blur. I also concur with him with regards to the lighting availabe in most indoor gymnasiums. Bloody designers always think about the atheletes and never the photogs 🙂White Balance.
Shoot RAW and set the camera to auto WB. You can massage it in post.I shoot my daughters gymnastics events and my neices volleyball occasionally. The lighting is brutal, no flash allowed and colour cast are a chore.
But with fast glass, high ISO, and RAW I can get results that I’m happy with.
Certainly not print worthy, but proud dad, uncle worthy? you bet.1/1250th at ISO 1,000
Getting the WB even close on that was only possible by shooting in RAW. Cant recall how much I had to change it but I know the original was way off.
Open your lens as much as you can. Your only isolating your daughter and at that distance DoF shouldnt be an issue. Keep raising your ISO until you a SS that high enough. For Volley ball and Gymnastics I like 1/500th to 1/1000th. You shouldnt need anywhere near that. Maybe only as much as 1/100th to 1/250th.
And use RAW.
You can correct WB in post to deal with most of the colour cast. Hardest part is dealing with the crap light. Skin tones are a bugger but again they arent for sale so I dont care much./edit add.
Forgot to mention. At the distance your shooting chances are, your flash, even if its an off board ( as opposed to on board) the flash isn’t reaching your daughter, especially at higher ISOs. Its been a long time and flash photography isnt my thing but Id be surprsed if your flash is getting that far.Even with a Better Beamer that would be about my off baord flashes limit at high ISO. Dotn quote me though 🙂 I reserve the rght to be mistaken
Lol to the last. I immediately thought of the Hardy Girl 🙂
Thanks David, every bit helps…film vis a vie digital and artistic expression capabilities re the former.
David.
I know very little about darkrooms and processing film. Just the very basics and its been 20 years+ since I’ve been inside one.All else being equal. Wouldn’t the production of 1 image be infinitly longer in the darkroom than the same image with the same outcome produce in post?
I’m lucky as the editor I’m sending images to much prefers his staff do the work. Meaning he prefers the RAW files so he/they can optimise (including print size and subsequent sharpening) the image to its eventual useage. Maybe I have a great horizontal image, they want to print as a vertical crop. If *I* do the work thats not an option, and so on. I’m given to understand that not the norm and most publications want finished files.
Either way, if I had to I could select and can turn out 10 images, fully optimised to the best of my ability (Im no PS pro) in minutes. Film for even a professional developer?
If “Phil” asked me to go get some images of Chinooks going over some falls during the spawning runs and could I have the images in his hand later that day. I could providing I nail the exposures have a 100 possibly acceptable images in his hands within hours, even minutes (providing the Chinook are running). Not days.
Another related benefit and something that has made it easier for amatuers to jump in FPS and Buffers. I thought of this immediately as my “main” interest is wildlife photography. Ive wanted to take these steps for years but it always came down to the impractialities of film.
I don’t think Ive used bracketing ever and only rarely use my histogram or “chimp” as I dont get the
Meant to include in my previous but te better half called with that tone of voice, had to cut it short
Anywho. Heres my thinking maybe its not for everyone. I have a list of places and species all over the world Id like to see/fish once in my life from Alaska to New Zealand. No way I’ll ever check them all off and while I havent checked many foreign destinations off I can say Ive seen and fished
Thats all I was gettingat Mike, there are differences absolutely, but they are similiar enough that if I could only do 1 in the foreseeable future and I hadnt done either Id do the one in my own country. Thats all
I see a bunch of day shots, not night and day shots.
Significantly different can take lot of meaning. For example, in Yellowston speed limits are likely 55mph, In Calgary (the Bow river) 100kph. Different and yet not. Accents are different to but the same language is spoken.Weather.Similiar
Fish species and methods? Similiar.
Scenery. Similiar
Wildlife. SimiliarDisagree with any of tha?
To be sure there are differences but sorry not night and day differences. If I hadnt done either, theres nothin in your photos with the exception of 1 thats says ones “significantly” different than the other and certainly not night an day.
There are certainly some phenomonal waters in the Western part of Cda as well scenery. Bull Trout anyone? About as close to taimen as we NAs will ever come 🙂 Haven’t been out there in years but I remember parts of it like it was yesterday.
That said as good as the fishing is in parts, and as beautifull as it is ( its the most beautiful country Ive ever seen)
From what little I could find it seems they might.
Excerpt from one article.
It was thought that because splake grow more quickly than lake trout and mature and spawn at an earlier age, eventually they would be able to create self-sustaining populations despite lamprey predation.
The first cross between parental species is called an F1, which are the splake hybrids currently stocked in Ontario. However, F2, F3, and F4 crosses, which are second-, third-, and forth-generation hybrids, have also been stocked into the Great Lakes. The province also back-crossed F1 splake with lake trout, searching for a fish with the perfect genetic mix for the Great Lakes. For rehabilitation purposes, the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR)finally switched back to stocking lake trout during the early 1990s, after lamprey-control programmes proved successful and finding that stocked splake were not propagating or surviving longer than about three years. They were a poor fit for the Great Lakes.
From the MN DNR
September and October
Brook trout and splake are fall spawners, but they cannot successfully spawn in most lakes because they need streams for spawning. Troll or cast for them as they congregate near points.From the Ont MNR
There is some evidence that where Splake and Brook co-exist splake may compete with Brook Trout for spawning habitat
There has been no indication of succesful natural reproduction in Alqonquin Lakes. It is, however, beleived they atleast go through the spawning act
Zach, you may have just bumped a Montanna pack horse/camp trip from 2nd on my “lifetime want to do trips” to 1st over Belize.
Was going to say Turneffe in Belize untill I saw the rest of your tittle :).
Next on my lifetime want to do is a pack horse 3 to 4 day trip through Montanna. Dont much care about specifics, but really want to do 3 to 4 days into the back country via horse, saddle sores and all.
So thats out to 🙂
Ever caught a Golden?
Why not formulate plans based on a species you’ve never caught? That can help narrow it down some.I called Barry at 11am on a Monday and told him what I needed. He grabbed an angler, went down to the river a mile from his house, and shot some images. By 2 in the afternoon, I had four lo-res images to choose from. Because he could understand the specific fly-fishing language I was using, he got the shots right the first time. That sounds pretty professional to me.
In a recent discussion I had with someone about what separates a ‘pro” from a “wannabe” like myself, that to me might be the single largest trait that separates us.
Do I have an eye? Dunno, would like to think so, time will tell.
Can I produce dynamic shots? Sometimes, atleast Id like to think so.Can I do so on demand, no matter the circumstance, weather, lighting, time constraits, in my comfort zone?
When I can do all of the above. When Im comfortable accepting money up front for as yet taken pictures (assingment) then and only then might I think of myself as a Pro, no matter how little or how much I net/get published/get paid per image (if at all).
Phil about those low res images. Does that include from us Canucks to?
Just kidding..maybe in time 🙂
