Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 10/13/03 3:26 AM, animal at s.jessurun95@chello.nl wrote: > can not open your server > simon j should be back up. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doug Herr" <telyt@earthlink.net> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; <leica@topica.com>; > <leica_reflex_forum@topica.com> > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 7:03 AM > Subject: [Leica] Pika > > >> The north american Pika is a small mammal related to rabbits and hares > which >> lives in talus slopes at high elevation in the western mountains: >> >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/mammals/talus.jpg >> >> This particular pika >> >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/mammals/pika01.jpg >> >> was just east of Tioga Pass, outside Yosemite National Park. Pikas are >> found throughout the Sierra Nevada but the best photographic opportunities >> are on the eastern slope of the mountains. The western Sierra is a > granite >> which ia much brighter than the animal's fur, so correct exposure to get >> detail in the fur without washing out the granite is next to impossible. >> OTOH the eastern slope of the Sierra is metamorphic rock, much closer to > the >> same tone as the Pika, so correct exposure is much easier. >> >> Technical stuff: Leicaflex SL, 400mm f/6.8 Telyt with shoulder stock and >> monopod, Kodachrome 25 from my freezer stash. >> >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html