Sony Lounge Thread MKIII (All Sony cameras welcome)

TRhoads wrote in post #18908798
:p...my new catch word...
Thanks. It was a good and productive trip. Might have to get you to join me more..good light follows you.

I’d be down for more photography trips!

Stitched another set of panoramas of the sunset progression at Ubirr, Kakadu National park where hundreds set and watched. What a crowded place!
First shot is a pano of 4 and the second is a pano of 5

And another copule of panos at Nourlangie and before climbing the rock at Ubirr. First pano was stitched of 5 vertical shots and second of 2 rows and 3 columns. Some chunks were missing but I managed to fill them somehow rather. You can see some bush fires on the horizon in the first one.

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So I decided that for Rainer...and either Mt. Baker or the Hoh Rain forest...I am going to see if I can do my hiking with the 16-35GM and 24-70GM...with both bodies. I am going to see if that can make hiking easier with less weight. I don't always need the second body, but I am going to be working on something that requires the second body, so I am going to see if I can make it work. Ready to go...how bad is that..barely back from the Smokies, ready to hit the road again...

TRhoads wrote in post #18909107
So I decided that for Rainer...and either Mt. Baker or the Hoh Rain forest...I am going to see if I can do my hiking with the 16-35GM and 24-70GM...with both bodies. I am going to see if that can make hiking easier with less weight. I don't always need the second body, but I am going to be working on something that requires the second body, so I am going to see if I can make it work. Ready to go...how bad is that..barely back from the Smokies, ready to hit the road again...

I have to have 2 bodies. I just feel vulnerable with one. So with that I usually have the big lens on the A9 and then mulitple lenses for the A7r2 soon to be r4. I was amazed at what I got packed into the Backlight 26L pack but it hit about 40lbs and I really want it 35 or less with water and tripod.

I am planning my next outing late Sept to El Malpais / Chaco / Ah Shi Sle Pah / Canyon De Chelly - Hopefully with the Ar74 and I am going to use sony pro for either the 16-35 or the 24 1.4

In Oct I get my daughters wedding in Snoqualmie Falls so might get some Mt Rainer then.

Nov and or Dec going to hit Grand Staircase Escalante and probably Organ Pipe Nat park as well.

Its still 107 out so have been hiding from big trips in Arizona.

TRhoads wrote in post #18909107
So I decided that for Rainer...and either Mt. Baker or the Hoh Rain forest...I am going to see if I can do my hiking with the 16-35GM and 24-70GM...with both bodies. I am going to see if that can make hiking easier with less weight. I don't always need the second body, but I am going to be working on something that requires the second body, so I am going to see if I can make it work. Ready to go...how bad is that..barely back from the Smokies, ready to hit the road again...

Will you be contacting our Washington state landscape guru Seattle Speedster? He seems to be an expert on shooting those Washington mountains. I know I've always really enjoyed the images he posts here and at FM.

TRhoads wrote in post #18909107
So I decided that for Rainer...and either Mt. Baker or the Hoh Rain forest...I am going to see if I can do my hiking with the 16-35GM and 24-70GM...with both bodies. I am going to see if that can make hiking easier with less weight. I don't always need the second body, but I am going to be working on something that requires the second body, so I am going to see if I can make it work. Ready to go...how bad is that..barely back from the Smokies, ready to hit the road again...

Haha! Wanderlust. It gets us all. Yeah lugging around most of my lenses and hiking was not fun. I think your plan sounds good. You’ll make good use out of those focal ranges. So not interested in the 24-105mm lens?

eriet30 wrote in post #18909111
I have to have 2 bodies. I just feel vulnerable with one. So with that I usually have the big lens on the A9 and then mulitple lenses for the A7r2 soon to be r4. I was amazed at what I got packed into the Backlight 26L pack but it hit about 40lbs and I really want it 35 or less with water and tripod.

I am planning my next outing late Sept to El Malpais / Chaco / Ah Shi Sle Pah / Canyon De Chelly - Hopefully with the Ar74 and I am going to use sony pro for either the 16-35 or the 24 1.4

In Oct I get my daughters wedding in Snoqualmie Falls so might get some Mt Rainer then.

Nov and or Dec going to hit Grand Staircase Escalante and probably Organ Pipe Nat park as well.

Its still 107 out so have been hiding from big trips in Arizona.

I typically don't hike with 2 bodies, just to keep weight down...I can't carry a 35 pound pack...not anymore. I have not weighed my pack as it was this past weekend, but it wasn't 35 pounds...it probably was when I did Delicate Arch the first time in 2013...and it nearly killed me. I will have all my gear for the car shooting I can do...but for the hiking I want to do...gotta go light.

Yeah, the 26L can hold a lot of gear if you don't have too many large lenses...I had it with me this weekend as a storage bag, I like hiking with my 36L a little more.

navydoc wrote in post #18909124
Will you be contacting our Washington state landscape guru Seattle Speedster? He seems to be an expert on shooting those Washington mountains. I know I've always really enjoyed the images he posts here and at FM.

I have been in contact with him...I shot with him last year when I went...got some good ideas from him for this trip too...I think he is enroute to Iceland ATM...

digital_AM wrote in post #18909126
Haha! Wanderlust. It gets us all. Yeah lugging around most of my lenses and hiking was not fun. I think your plan sounds good. You’ll make good use out of those focal ranges. So not interested in the 24-105mm lens?

LOL...wanderlust...may​be I can become an influencer...BTW..Lete​r Heaton has a home now...LOL.
I didn't want to carry all that gear, just too heavy. I did wish I had the 50mm for Spruce Flats though.
The 24-105 is interesting, but ultimately I think it will be too slow and not work for any details I want to shoot at wider apertures...its a good lens, but the range I was missing this last trip was 35-70...

eriet30 wrote in post #18909111
I have to have 2 bodies. I just feel vulnerable with one. So with that I usually have the big lens on the A9 and then mulitple lenses for the A7r2 soon to be r4. I was amazed at what I got packed into the Backlight 26L pack but it hit about 40lbs and I really want it 35 or less with water and tripod.

I am planning my next outing late Sept to El Malpais / Chaco / Ah Shi Sle Pah / Canyon De Chelly - Hopefully with the Ar74 and I am going to use sony pro for either the 16-35 or the 24 1.4

In Oct I get my daughters wedding in Snoqualmie Falls so might get some Mt Rainer then.

Nov and or Dec going to hit Grand Staircase Escalante and probably Organ Pipe Nat park as well.

Its still 107 out so have been hiding from big trips in Arizona.

Paul, how do you travel so much? I’m jealous. Haha.

digital_AM wrote in post #18909128
Paul, how do you travel so much? I’m jealous. Haha.

I save my vacation and sick days so that I can pack them around weekends. ....... But what really helps is living in Phoenix. I am close to everything!!!!

Death Valley 6 hrs

Joshua Tree 3.5 hours

Grand Canyon 4 hours

Lake Powell GSENM Slot Canyons 5 hours

Monument Valley 5.5 hours

Chaco 6 hours

White Sands 7 hours

The question is..... why do I keep shooting the botanical gardens here and am not shooting all those places!!!!!!

TRhoads wrote in post #18909127
I typically don't hike with 2 bodies, just to keep weight down...I can't carry a 35 pound pack...not anymore. I have not weighed my pack as it was this past weekend, but it wasn't 35 pounds...it probably was when I did Delicate Arch the first time in 2013...and it nearly killed me. I will have all my gear for the car shooting I can do...but for the hiking I want to do...gotta go light.

Delicate Arch snuck up on me because of the altitude... Most of the time I am fine but sometimes that added elevation to some dehydration and bam that little hike sucked for me....luckily we just stayed up there from sunset to sunrise. Thats Ruggles on the bottom right

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2824​oH5

eriet30 wrote in post #18909131
Delicate Arch snuck up on me because of the altitude... Most of the time I am fine but sometimes that added elevation to some dehydration and bam that little hike sucked for me....luckily we just stayed up there from sunset to sunrise. Thats Ruggles on the bottom right

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2824​oH5 _0A91935.jpg by Paul, on Flickr

I had a pretty good idea of what we were getting into on the hike to Delicate...but the sheer sandstone faces that you have to just walk straight up I wasn't ready for...or the coming back down...dad lost the toe nails on two toes from the hike back down.

TRhoads wrote in post #18909136
I had a pretty good idea of what we were getting into on the hike to Delicate...but the sheer sandstone faces that you have to just walk straight up I wasn't ready for...or the coming back down...dad lost the toe nails on two toes from the hike back down.

OW!!!!! That hurts thinking about it

eriet30 wrote in post #18909137
OW!!!!! That hurts thinking about it

he didn't realize it after the first hike down...we did it again the last day we were there and it did them in...

TRhoads wrote in post #18909139
he didn't realize it after the first hike down...we did it again the last day we were there and it did them in...

Not to take the thread to the ugly but for the last two years to avoid that I wrap my big toe and one next to it and then the front ball with that self sticking sports wrap. I have avoided blistering and toe damage that way. I have about 60% feeling in my toes so I never know if I am hurting them or if a cactus is poking them till its too late.