Another Arizona POTN get together (2)?

disneydork06 wrote in post #6660846
thanks Kristy...I'll give them a call later this week

Ryan... I know Tempe Camera can perform the repairs... they wouldn't give me a quote without the looking at the flash. I took it apart and the flash tube is busted. So... if this is the case for yours... please let me know what they are going to charge. I need to get my 430 repaired.

Best of luck.
Hatch

Jay

The shots of your lovely model are great. I don't know how you did the light and glasses but it shows me it can be done. Your 1st zoo shot is a realkeeper. I have tried getting the abstract lines from a zebra and didn't have much luck. This shot gets the lines and the cute factor. I have to share a shot I took a few years ago of your Mandrel friend. This one was shot with my old Digital Rebel and a Sigma 70-200 2.8 with a TC. He had just finished chasing and catching one of the females in the pen.

The colors are wild looking Guerry. Cool shot!

Hatch

Nice work Jay. Really enjoyed the Zebra shots.

Hatch

disneydork06 wrote in post #6632882
hey nice job with the shots! I'm game for that day as well...as long as I don't get any more work picked up to shoot that day but you know maybe someone might have a house to use as a small studio and we could possibly find someone who wants some tfcd shots
But yeah, I'm willing to travel as well...might need a ride though.

Thanks Ryan . It'd be great to get out and do some more landscape/inanimate work. I will have to see if I can find people in OH to help me learn portrait work.

Guerry Dalrymple wrote in post #6635306
The wedding photos look great to me. It looks like you got all the important traditional shots and some really nice other poses. Lighting looked good to me but what do I know. I do know I like them. Wedding Photographer being added to the resume?

The land scape idea sounds good to me. especially since I have started learning to do panoramas. Saguaro NP and the old Mission sound good. I am trying to find someplace to shoot the Superstitions for a pano but can't seem to find it. I like the shapes from the west side but the lighting never seems right. Maybe someone know a way to get to shoot the east side at sun rise???

Thanks Guerry . I was mainly concerned with exposure of the subjects once the sun came out...super bright as usual :P. Anyway it was good for me to get up in front of people with a camera again!

As far as the Superstitions...I've hiked a good bit of Peralta and around/over to Weavers Needle with a friend who now moved away (in winter of course). For clean shots of the East side, I'd follow Jay's advice below. I gave up on the West because the power lines drive me nuts. Too much time in Photoshop to rid a shot of those for me.

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #6635444
I'd do Tucson as well but bear in mind that San Xavier (at least the west tower and west side) is covered in scaffolding right now and not very photogenic.

Guerry, the problem with the east side of the Superstitions is that the terrain slopes upward from east to west. From what little exploring I've done off of the Apache Trail, you need to get well into the spine between the summits and Weaver's Needle.

Now I was just doing a little Google Earth + Garmin Mapsource and it looks as if you can get a view of the SE side of the Superstitions from the road to the Peralta Trailhead which is off of US60. It appears to be roughly 2mi beyond the entrance to Gold Canyon and it would be on your left as you head toward Globe.

Wow, scaffolding-yuck! That's a great reason to steer clear, duly noted.

I'm still on for this Saturday if you all are. I am 5 pages back as we got back late last night so I'm going to keep on reading...

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #6644390
Never tried back button focus, eh?

Well, it's an aquired taste and I find it helps me track moving objects in Servo Focus but I don't have to worry about the exposure unitl the split second the shutter trips.

Also, if I don't want the camera to refocus between shots, I simply don't touch the * button and the focus stays where it was last set.

It takes some getting used to but in the right situations (IMO) it's the better way to go...

Woohoo! Terry showed me that at our Boyce Thompson outing this spring. I LOVE using that custom function! I use it about 90% of the time.

Ok, on to more catching up!

From the trip... Pikes Peak Pano

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Our winter storms are starting to come in... so that means CLOUDS!! Here's a shot (total of 3) that I took today at work. Couldn't pass it up. Thought it came out pretty good.

Thoughts?

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Hatch1921 wrote in post #6661041
Ryan... I know Tempe Camera can perform the repairs... they wouldn't give me a quote without the looking at the flash. I took it apart and the flash tube is busted. So... if this is the case for yours... please let me know what they are going to charge. I need to get my 430 repaired.

Best of luck.
Hatch

nice, thanks...I took mine apart and now it doesn't even turn on anymore but a new video game is coming out this week so idk how much time I'll be able to head out to tempe to get it looked at this week...

nice shot jeremy...seems like a fun job if you can have your camera with you.

Guerry Dalrymple wrote in post #6661275
Jay

The shots of your lovely model are great. I don't know how you did the light and glasses but it shows me it can be done. Your 1st zoo shot is a realkeeper. I have tried getting the abstract lines from a zebra and didn't have much luck. This shot gets the lines and the cute factor. I have to share a shot I took a few years ago of your Mandrel friend. This one was shot with my old Digital Rebel and a Sigma 70-200 2.8 with a TC. He had just finished chasing and catching one of the females in the pen.

Very nice Guerry... Colorful individual, that's for sure.

Hatch1921 wrote in post #6661535
Nice work Jay. Really enjoyed the Zebra shots.

Hatch

Thanks!

Hatch1921 wrote in post #6662170
From the trip... Pikes Peak Pano

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Large version here...
LINK

Hatch

Nice! Too bad some guy named Hatch carved his © in the rocks right in your frame...

jbdavies wrote in post #6662326
Our winter storms are starting to come in... so that means CLOUDS!! Here's a shot (total of 3) that I took today at work. Couldn't pass it up. Thought it came out pretty good.

Thoughts?

Did you attempt an HDR-esque treatment on this? Them be some pretty vibrant colors.

disneydork06 wrote in post #6662911
nice shot jeremy...seems like a fun job if you can have your camera with you.

Thanks! I went home and got my camera when I saw this.

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #6662932
Did you attempt an HDR-esque treatment on this? Them be some pretty vibrant colors.

I did. Did I make it too.... "fake"?