subject:"See Below"

Re: See Below (for Dan)

2020-08-03 Thread John


Scroll left from the termite mound to see the exposed pool.

On 8/2/2020 12:48:58, Alan C wrote:

I thought my descriptions said it all.

The anthill is built around a large tree which the termites are no doubt 
consuming.

There is a sub-ground level pool exposed in the sand river bed.

Alan C

On 02-Aug-20 06:36 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

Not sure what I am supposed to be looking at.

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On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 12:10 PM Alan C  wrote:


PESO x 2: Sand & Sand

Trying it like this. The e-mail won't go throgh.

A large anthill with a built in timber supply & a typical sand river.
All the tributaries around here look like this in the dry season. The
sand beds can be several metres deep on top of the bedrock. The rivers
still flow below the surface through the sand. Elephants dig wells &
extract the exposed water with their trunks. The pool in this shot is
occupied by a solitary hippo.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50176786881/in/datetaken-public/
<
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50176786881/in/datetaken-public/
Scroll L for the other.

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Re: See Below

2020-08-03 Thread Alan C

Thanks, Larry. The advice from your experience will no doubt help a lot.
The Southern Cross will be a good starting point. Just need to get rid
of the bright moon.

Alan C

On 02-Aug-20 08:22 PM, Larry Colen wrote:

On Aug 2, 2020, at 11:06 AM, Alan C wrote:

Larry, that's an excellent suggestion. Only problem is that the Kruger Park is
off limits at night unless you are a Rhino Poacher or a member of an armed
response team. I'll look around for a similar anthill outside the park.

If you do it with astrotracer, one advantage of light painting (with a strobe?) is that most of the
terrestrial image will be "frozen" and just "motion blurred" at the edges. You
can see that if you look carefully at the edges of the building in this photo I did with the
astrotracer and K-5.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/11770425926/

In the meantime I've ordered a cable shutter release for the K5 so I can use
the Astrotracer without standing there with my finger on the button!

Did you order one of the dumb ones, or one with a built in intervelometer? If
you are using the intervelometer, you need to set the interval to 1 second,
unless you want to add somethign like 5 seconds to the photo time with
astrotracer.

Also, there's the question of doing the darkfield noise settings. The best
results are probably to do some manual darkfield frames and do the processing
in post.

BTW, you shouldn't need to hold the shutter in astrotracer, you set the period
in multilples of 10 seconds, press the shutter with a 2 second delay, and it
does A/T for the set period.

Perhaps you have suggestion for dealing with the harsh light besides waiting
for a rainy day? Maybe some kind of filter?

In processing I'd bring up the shadow slider and bring down the highlights.
I'd try to do my most important landscape images at golden/blue hour time
periods. If I was shooting something small, close and stationary I'd try a bit
of fill, either a reflector or as big of a flash as I could get (don't know if
the flash would have enough to soften shadows beyond a couple feet).

Alternatively, rather than fighting it, I might try and use the harsh lighting
to set the mood. It really does make the area look like desert.

Alan C

On 02-Aug-20 07:11 PM, Larry Colen wrote:

your photos really reflect the harsh lighing there.

If your nights are clear, I think that the anthill would be an awesome subject
at night, put the milky way behind it, and if moonlight isn't enough to
illuminate it, maybe do a little bit of light painting. However, I suspect
that for a variety of reasons that'd be a no-go in Kruger.

On Aug 1, 2020, at 9:09 AM, Alan C wrote:

PESO x 2: Sand & Sand

Trying it like this. The e-mail won't go throgh.

A large anthill with a built in timber supply & a typical sand river. All the
tributaries around here look like this in the dry season. The sand beds can be several
metres deep on top of the bedrock. The rivers still flow below the surface through the
sand. Elephants dig wells & extract the exposed water with their trunks. The pool
in this shot is occupied by a solitary hippo.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50176786881/in/datetaken-public/

Scroll L for the other.

K5 & HD 55-300

Alan C

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Re: See Below

2020-08-02 Thread Larry Colen

> On Aug 2, 2020, at 11:06 AM, Alan C  wrote:
> 
> Larry, that's an excellent suggestion. Only problem is that the Kruger Park 
> is off limits at night unless you are a Rhino Poacher or a member of an armed 
> response team. I'll look around for a similar anthill outside the park.

If you do it with astrotracer, one advantage of light painting (with a strobe?) 
is that most of the terrestrial image will be "frozen" and just "motion 
blurred" at the edges. You can see that if you look carefully at the edges of 
the building in this photo I did with the astrotracer and K-5.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/11770425926/

> In the meantime I've ordered a cable shutter release for the K5 so I can use 
> the Astrotracer without standing there with my finger on the button!

Did you order one of the dumb ones, or one with a built in intervelometer?  If 
you are using the intervelometer, you need to set the interval to 1 second, 
unless you want to add somethign like 5 seconds to the photo time with 
astrotracer.  

Also, there's the question of doing the darkfield noise settings.  The best 
results are probably to do some manual darkfield frames and do the processing 
in post.

BTW, you shouldn't need to hold the shutter in astrotracer, you set the period 
in multilples of 10 seconds, press the shutter with a 2 second delay, and it 
does A/T for the set period.

> 
> Perhaps you have suggestion for dealing with the harsh light besides waiting 
> for a rainy day? Maybe some kind of filter?

In processing I'd bring up the shadow slider and bring down the highlights.  
I'd try to do my most important landscape images at golden/blue hour time 
periods.  If I was shooting something small, close and stationary I'd try a bit 
of fill, either a reflector or as big of a flash as I could get (don't know if 
the flash would have enough to soften shadows beyond a couple feet).  

Alternatively, rather than fighting it, I might try and use the harsh lighting 
to set the mood.  It really does make the area look like  desert.

> 
> Alan C
> 
> On 02-Aug-20 07:11 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
>> your photos really reflect the harsh lighing there.
>> 
>> If your nights are clear, I think that the anthill would be an awesome 
>> subject at night, put the milky way behind it, and if moonlight isn't enough 
>>  to illuminate it, maybe do a little bit of light painting.  However, I 
>> suspect that for a variety of reasons that'd be a no-go in Kruger.
>> 
>>> On Aug 1, 2020, at 9:09 AM, Alan C  wrote:
>>> 
>>> PESO x 2: Sand & Sand
>>> 
>>> Trying it like this. The e-mail won't go throgh.
>>> 
>>> A large anthill with a built in timber supply & a typical sand river. All 
>>> the tributaries around here look like this in the dry season. The sand beds 
>>> can be several metres deep on top of the bedrock. The rivers still flow 
>>> below the surface through the sand. Elephants dig wells & extract the 
>>> exposed water with their trunks. The pool in this shot is occupied by a 
>>> solitary hippo.
>>> 
>>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50176786881/in/datetaken-public/ 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Scroll L for the other.
>>> 
>>> K5 & HD 55-300
>>> 
>>> Alan C
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Re: See Below

2020-08-02 Thread Alan C

Larry, that's an excellent suggestion. Only problem is that the Kruger 
Park is off limits at night unless you are a Rhino Poacher or a member 
of an armed response team. I'll look around for a similar anthill 
outside the park. In the meantime I've ordered a cable shutter release 
for the K5 so I can use the Astrotracer without standing there with my 
finger on the button!


Perhaps you have suggestion for dealing with the harsh light besides 
waiting for a rainy day? Maybe some kind of filter?


Alan C

On 02-Aug-20 07:11 PM, Larry Colen wrote:

your photos really reflect the harsh lighing there.

If your nights are clear, I think that the anthill would be an awesome subject 
at night, put the milky way behind it, and if moonlight isn't enough  to 
illuminate it, maybe do a little bit of light painting.  However, I suspect 
that for a variety of reasons that'd be a no-go in Kruger.


On Aug 1, 2020, at 9:09 AM, Alan C  wrote:

PESO x 2: Sand & Sand

Trying it like this. The e-mail won't go throgh.

A large anthill with a built in timber supply & a typical sand river. All the 
tributaries around here look like this in the dry season. The sand beds can be several 
metres deep on top of the bedrock. The rivers still flow below the surface through the 
sand. Elephants dig wells & extract the exposed water with their trunks. The pool 
in this shot is occupied by a solitary hippo.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50176786881/in/datetaken-public/ 


Scroll L for the other.

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Re: See Below

2020-08-02 Thread Larry Colen

your photos really reflect the harsh lighing there.

If your nights are clear, I think that the anthill would be an awesome subject 
at night, put the milky way behind it, and if moonlight isn't enough  to 
illuminate it, maybe do a little bit of light painting.  However, I suspect 
that for a variety of reasons that'd be a no-go in Kruger.

> On Aug 1, 2020, at 9:09 AM, Alan C  wrote:
> 
> PESO x 2: Sand & Sand
> 
> Trying it like this. The e-mail won't go throgh.
> 
> A large anthill with a built in timber supply & a typical sand river. All the 
> tributaries around here look like this in the dry season. The sand beds can 
> be several metres deep on top of the bedrock. The rivers still flow below the 
> surface through the sand. Elephants dig wells & extract the exposed water 
> with their trunks. The pool in this shot is occupied by a solitary hippo.
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50176786881/in/datetaken-public/ 
> 
> 
> Scroll L for the other.
> 
> K5 & HD 55-300
> 
> Alan C
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Re: See Below (for Dan)

2020-08-02 Thread Alan C


I thought my descriptions said it all.

The anthill is built around a large tree which the termites are no doubt 
consuming.


There is a sub-ground level pool exposed in the sand river bed.

Alan C

On 02-Aug-20 06:36 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

Not sure what I am supposed to be looking at.

Dan Matyola
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On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 12:10 PM Alan C  wrote:


PESO x 2: Sand & Sand

Trying it like this. The e-mail won't go throgh.

A large anthill with a built in timber supply & a typical sand river.
All the tributaries around here look like this in the dry season. The
sand beds can be several metres deep on top of the bedrock. The rivers
still flow below the surface through the sand. Elephants dig wells &
extract the exposed water with their trunks. The pool in this shot is
occupied by a solitary hippo.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50176786881/in/datetaken-public/
<
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50176786881/in/datetaken-public/
Scroll L for the other.

K5 & HD 55-300

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Re: See Below

2020-08-02 Thread Daniel J. Matyola

Not sure what I am supposed to be looking at.

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On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 12:10 PM Alan C  wrote:

> PESO x 2: Sand & Sand
>
> Trying it like this. The e-mail won't go throgh.
>
> A large anthill with a built in timber supply & a typical sand river.
> All the tributaries around here look like this in the dry season. The
> sand beds can be several metres deep on top of the bedrock. The rivers
> still flow below the surface through the sand. Elephants dig wells &
> extract the exposed water with their trunks. The pool in this shot is
> occupied by a solitary hippo.
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50176786881/in/datetaken-public/
> <
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50176786881/in/datetaken-public/
> >
>
> Scroll L for the other.
>
> K5 & HD 55-300
>
> Alan C
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Re: See Below

2020-08-02 Thread Alan C

Not quicksand - the sand rivers are just like a beach. Animals do 
occasionally get stuck in the mud at drying up pans.


Alan C

On 02-Aug-20 04:14 PM, Richard Klein wrote:

Is quicksand often found in the sand rivers?

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 12:10 PM Alan C  wrote:


PESO x 2: Sand & Sand

Trying it like this. The e-mail won't go throgh.

A large anthill with a built in timber supply & a typical sand river.
All the tributaries around here look like this in the dry season. The
sand beds can be several metres deep on top of the bedrock. The rivers
still flow below the surface through the sand. Elephants dig wells &
extract the exposed water with their trunks. The pool in this shot is
occupied by a solitary hippo.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50176786881/in/datetaken-public/
<
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50176786881/in/datetaken-public/
Scroll L for the other.

K5 & HD 55-300

Alan C

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Re: See Below

2020-08-02 Thread Richard Klein

Is quicksand often found in the sand rivers?

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 12:10 PM Alan C  wrote:

> PESO x 2: Sand & Sand
>
> Trying it like this. The e-mail won't go throgh.
>
> A large anthill with a built in timber supply & a typical sand river.
> All the tributaries around here look like this in the dry season. The
> sand beds can be several metres deep on top of the bedrock. The rivers
> still flow below the surface through the sand. Elephants dig wells &
> extract the exposed water with their trunks. The pool in this shot is
> occupied by a solitary hippo.
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50176786881/in/datetaken-public/
> <
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50176786881/in/datetaken-public/
> >
>
> Scroll L for the other.
>
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2020-08-01 Thread Alan C


PESO x 2: Sand & Sand

Trying it like this. The e-mail won't go throgh.

A large anthill with a built in timber supply & a typical sand river. 
All the tributaries around here look like this in the dry season. The 
sand beds can be several metres deep on top of the bedrock. The rivers 
still flow below the surface through the sand. Elephants dig wells & 
extract the exposed water with their trunks. The pool in this shot is 
occupied by a solitary hippo.


https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50176786881/in/datetaken-public/ 



Scroll L for the other.

K5 & HD 55-300

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It already has a $29 bid on it.  

and I'm sure most of you know tht all the photos on my website are 
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photographers doesn't seem to work.

I'm using only Bay photo through smugmug and only allowing one finish - 
that excellent metallic one, for prints as the glossy

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