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Subject: Re: [OM] New photos - includes some Velvia
From: "Roger Wesson" <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 23:38:14 -0000
Thanks for the comments!  Some replies below.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Marr-Lyon

>Very nice!  Must be rough to work in such places ;-)  Were the fisheye
>shots from the Zuiko 8/2.8?  Cool.  Hope you got some good shots through
>the scope too!

Oh yeah, it's a dirty job but someone's got to do it :)  The fisheye shots
were done with a cheapo combination of Tokina 28/2.8 and Sunagor x0.42
adaptor - presumably a similar bit of kit to what Bill Barber's offering.  I
find it works well and gives pretty decent quality.

The data I got from the telescope was great, but calibrating it was for some
time the bain of my life.  Who'd have thought that five nights data could
take two months to get into scientifically useful form?

-----Original Message-----
From: John A. Lind

>"El Roque de los Muchachos" . . .
>In spite of the very high contrast in this scene (total loss of shadow
>detail; would be problematic with any film for this one; IMO better that
>than losing the highlights in it), I like the depth created using the size
>of the boulders and placement of the three sister "peaks" in the frame
>while mantaining reasonable balance at the base.

Yes, this was taken very early in the morning, so the light was very
contrasty.  I'm glad that you liked this shot - it was taken at the end of a
twelve hour stint at the telescope, in extremely high wind, with dust flying
everywhere, by one very tired astronomer/photographer!

To be a complete pedant, they'd have to be brother peaks - El Roque de los
Muchachos means 'The Rock Of The Boys', and they are the Boys, apparently.

>"INT dome at night" . . .
>Excellent exposure and very pleasing compostion with dome placement in the
>frame and the slanting ground.  I don't find the corner fall-off
>objectionably.  Not as apparent in the bottom corners as with the top
>corners.  With the top corners, it provides an interesting framing of the
>dome and the direction it's aimed.  Would have been interesting to see a
>comparison with another shot using a smaller lens aperture (if possible)
>for longer exposure time and longer star trails.
>

This was my favourite shot from the trip - one of those chromes that gives
you a real thrill when you see it for the first time.  Regarding the light
loss, I
expect this is the kind of situation in which my Tokina 28/2.8 can't really
compete with more expensive optics.  Glad you think it works to the
advantage of the shot though.

I'd have tried a smaller aperture/longer exposure but I was doing ten minute
exposures with the telescope that night, so I only had time to squeeze off a
few wide aperture shots.  If I make it back there I'll try it!

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Swale

> I really enjoyed your new site.  So I'm not the only one who seeks out an
> airplane  window seat and shoots the scene below.
>
> I have great shots of the interior of Queensland, of Indonesian Islands,
and
> dawn over central Europe, taken that way. And I remember flying into
Hawaii
> at night from the east; as we flew into the plume of air rising from the
heated
> land, all the tropical land smells filled the plane even at 20,000 feet.

I always take a few shots if I'm lucky enough to get a window seat.  I love
to see what's going by underneath, and the photos, although usually just
record shots, do sometimes come out very well.  In fact, I'm going to dig
out all the ones I can find and make a page of them.  D'you have any of
yours scanned in?

> The flare in the last shot of your series worked out very well (was it a
> silvernose lens perchance?) Turned what could have been a hum-drum shot
> into a great one.

Yes, that one was unbracketed so I was quite pleased with the detail in the
sky and on the end of the wing.  The lens was my Tokina 28/2.8, but I
haven't a clue whether it's MC or SC.

> This shot had me puzzled, until I realised that the observatory had
rotated
> during your exposure.

> http://www.worldtraveller.f9.co.uk/travel/lapalma/photos/lp05-s05-20.jpg

The movement of stars and telescopes can make for some striking shots around
observatories - here's another somewhat surreal one, taken at an observatory
in France:

http://www.worldtraveller.f9.co.uk/photo/photos/telescope.jpg

>  And looking into the craters; did the earth speak while you were there?

No rumbles, wobbles, landslides or eruptions to report, just a voice in my
head telling me to take more photos...

Cheers!
Roger




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