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Re: [OM] Best wishes and a few shots from Mt Dessert Island

Subject: Re: [OM] Best wishes and a few shots from Mt Dessert Island
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2022 22:04:34 -0800
On 12/25/2022 2:56 PM, Mike Gordon via olympus wrote:
https://www.olyendomike.com/Bar-HarborBoulder-Beach-4-2022/

This was one my "bright ideas"---going up near Bar Harbor in early spring as 
the Milkyway arch is nice and horizontal making for some nice possible compositions not 
available at other times of year.  Problem is it is cold and the galactic core doesn't 
rise until well after 2 AM.   The weather did not cooperate that much as cloudy or just 
hazy at night but we had a couple hour window on our last night.   The beach that 
required rappelling down a small way was not very practical at night as the rope was 
gone. We could scramble down during the day but hazardous at night with gear.
We scoped out a couple compositions during the day at Boulder Beach and set our alarms. It was particularly cold and windy, and the humidity was higher than optimal with clouds to roll in after 2AM according to Clear Outside app. There is something about balancing on boulders and just standing still for an hour that puts 30 years on you.

Yikes! Thanks for the warning. I'll be careful to avoid that. 😛

We both took one composition even before the Galactic core was fully up and 
scurried off to warmup in the car.  I set Marnie's pod as she didn't want to be 
responsible for a disaster and did not do a proper job. It shifted a bit after 
6 shots so the stack is quite small and the stacked file still gritty.

Pleasant enough at screen size, but I can't imagine it meets your expectations.

I stood 20 ft behind her for the foreground shot with an Android phone, I carry 
for just such an eventuality to provide a smidge of low-level lighting to bring 
out some details in the boulders--that was a tad over 3 min exposure. (As Dr. 
Flash always said about exposure to even it out with external lighting, 
distance is your friend)

Just thinking about Chuck in the last couple of days. I would do a graduated mask on the foreground, to keep the closest boulders from being brighter than the rest. That sort of screams artificial light.

The read noise on the E-M1 MkIII is just a bit too much for this application 
and there is a complex color cast that is a bear to ameliorate.  I should trade 
up.  I did have a go at Marnie's composition and have not done mine yet.

I bet Moose has dozens of shots of Somesville Bridge.

We've certainly driven by it hundreds of times. There are really few times when it looks good for a shot, at least at our time of year. The vagaries of light, foliage, wind, etc. are many. I suppose I've missed opportunities.

I'm still gently kicking myself for passing the pond across the street once 
when it was mirror smooth, with ducks, I think.

In fact, I've only shot it twice, for a total of 9 frames. One was the first photo in my Bar Harbor & Acadia book, with the only text in any of the books, a dedication to our friend Marilyn, who died suddenly and unexpectedly shortly before we were to visit her last fall.

Here's one to go with your shot of Marnie on the bridge. <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Travel/NorthEast_2013/Misc&image=_9243277rotcroof40.jpg>

Bridge Over Moose

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