Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I wish it were crispier, but the angle looks unprecedented to me - cf the photogs to ignore post ;-) You're definitely not one of them and the change is much apreciated here :-) Thanks for trying, and sharing Bien cordialement de Metz Philippe Le 11 oct. 11 ? 19:04, Adam Bridge a ?crit : > No, I'm not insane, I didn't do that. My knee would explode and I > just don't think climbing a 45 degree slope sounds like a lot of fun > to me. And besides a hand-full of people have fallen this year. None > survived. > > However, we were parked at Olmsted Point looking across at Half > Dome. I had hoped to get there a little earlier in the morning but I > got engrossed in documenting Tioga Pass so the sun was a bit high > and there was a touch of haze in the air. > > I mounted the 560 tele I bought from Doug Herr on an industrial- > strength fluid-head tripod, locked it down and photographed Half > Dome. As I was packing up a cluster of about a dozen Porches drove > up and I heard one of the drives saying that the cables that run up > to the top of Half Dome are on the left face as viewed from this > perspective. > > Cool, I thought to myself, I should look when I get home. Which I did. > > <http://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/gallery/19446304_NvM63K#1524435664_gDBQqpH > > > > This is a 1:1 crop sharpened and adjusted in Lightroom. You can make > out the figures and even the cable stays and perhaps a cable in one > location. Not too shabby! It's still difficult to focus but I think > this is just about spot-on. > > Comments welcome, of course. > > Adam Bridge > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information