KillRamsey
Hall of Famer
- Location
- Hood River, OR
- Name
- Kyle
Subtitle: "Hey Look! It's NOT a biking pic thread!"
This hike is an hour in, and an hour out. First 20 minutes is pretty flat, to a river bed. Then you spend 40 minutes going up 9 switchbacks to an alpine meadow under Mt Hood. It is ... magical up there. I was pretty floored.
Setup is my usual hiking rig: The XT1 and the XF27 pancake, with the circular polarizer on it. It doesn't get a whole lot lighter than that, the length works well for both personals and landscapes, and that filter really pops the colors nicely.
Fun side note: I finally tried something I recall Rico posting a long, long time ago: I put the shutter dial on T, and used the front wheel to flick shutter speed back and forth. At the beginning of the hike, I was all manual as usual. But going in and out of those shadows was killing me -- it was 3, 4, even 5 stops difference! 5 stops just blows up whatever your plan was, and it lasts literally a second sometimes before you're back into broad daylight, then back into dark blue shadows. Second attempt was to run auto aperture and / or shutter. But I never, ever liked the camera's choices, and was flinging that EV Comp knob back and forth like a kid playing Pac Man. Then I tried spot metering, but again, did not agree with the camera's choices. Finally, Rico's (typed) words echoed in my ears... I put the shutter dial on T, and used the front dial under my pointer finger to very efficiently wheel the shutter speed up and down til it looked right. ISO was pegged at 800 (to get me DR400) all day, and aperture was a mix, usually on the wide open end until I got into a meadow and wanted best sharpness.
So that's it... now I've become everything I hated. I'm now using little unmarked dials to change parameters like some run-of-the-mill Cannikon DSLR junkie. (sobs into pillow). God help me, it was so efficient and easy.
Anywho, here's some pics.
f5
KBRX0844 by gordopuggy, on Flickr
f5.6
KBRX0885 by gordopuggy, on Flickr
Big trees here.
KBRX0919 by gordopuggy, on Flickr
Good example of why metering was such a joke here.
KBRX0962 by gordopuggy, on Flickr
Between the darkness under that canopy, and the circ polarizer, this was as slow as 1/180 even at ISO800!
KBRX0976 by gordopuggy, on Flickr
The goal, reached.
KBRX0995 by gordopuggy, on Flickr
Sometimes they do whatever they're doing in really good light.
KBRX1036 by gordopuggy, on Flickr
Huckleberry bushes everywhere, and still some late berries to be had.
KBRX1058 by gordopuggy, on Flickr
Late afternoon, almost out, the light got GOOD
KBRX1072 by gordopuggy, on Flickr
This hike is an hour in, and an hour out. First 20 minutes is pretty flat, to a river bed. Then you spend 40 minutes going up 9 switchbacks to an alpine meadow under Mt Hood. It is ... magical up there. I was pretty floored.
Setup is my usual hiking rig: The XT1 and the XF27 pancake, with the circular polarizer on it. It doesn't get a whole lot lighter than that, the length works well for both personals and landscapes, and that filter really pops the colors nicely.
Fun side note: I finally tried something I recall Rico posting a long, long time ago: I put the shutter dial on T, and used the front wheel to flick shutter speed back and forth. At the beginning of the hike, I was all manual as usual. But going in and out of those shadows was killing me -- it was 3, 4, even 5 stops difference! 5 stops just blows up whatever your plan was, and it lasts literally a second sometimes before you're back into broad daylight, then back into dark blue shadows. Second attempt was to run auto aperture and / or shutter. But I never, ever liked the camera's choices, and was flinging that EV Comp knob back and forth like a kid playing Pac Man. Then I tried spot metering, but again, did not agree with the camera's choices. Finally, Rico's (typed) words echoed in my ears... I put the shutter dial on T, and used the front dial under my pointer finger to very efficiently wheel the shutter speed up and down til it looked right. ISO was pegged at 800 (to get me DR400) all day, and aperture was a mix, usually on the wide open end until I got into a meadow and wanted best sharpness.
So that's it... now I've become everything I hated. I'm now using little unmarked dials to change parameters like some run-of-the-mill Cannikon DSLR junkie. (sobs into pillow). God help me, it was so efficient and easy.
Anywho, here's some pics.
f5
f5.6
Big trees here.
Good example of why metering was such a joke here.
Between the darkness under that canopy, and the circ polarizer, this was as slow as 1/180 even at ISO800!
The goal, reached.
Sometimes they do whatever they're doing in really good light.
Huckleberry bushes everywhere, and still some late berries to be had.
Late afternoon, almost out, the light got GOOD
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