Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Alastair, You and Helen you look to be in form! Very nice pictures, the panos are splendid, and I like very much too #16 and # 10 Saludos Lluis El 23/11/2010, a las 6:49, afirkin at afirkin.com escribi?: > Helen and I have just completed the Overland track from Cradle > Mountain to > Lake St. Clair in Tasmania's high country. Its a 6 day hike, over tree > roots, rocks and through mud holes, and is not for the faint > hearted. We > took the "supported" version, expensive, but gave you a guide, who > pushes > you along, cooks your meals etc, and huts at each nights stop with a > shower, toilet, heating/drying room and comfortable bunks. The > "luxury" > side of our trip helps, but the track still has to be "tamed". > > We were lucky with weather. 4 days clear 1 day rain snow and one day > of > clearing weather. The group before us went up the first days mountain > climb in driving rain, a torture we were to escape. I was pretty > tired at > the end, and grateful to having 3 days to recover (I return to work > tomorrow). My boots probably need a bit of "adjustment" when worn > for 8 to > 10 hours for 6 days. Training had me in them for 6 hours, but not > days in > a row. > > Photographically I took the M9 with 2x tri-elmars and the 90 elmar > c, a > small flash, 4 batteries, a small gitzo tripod and 5 SD cards. I > used only > 2 batteries over the 6 days. Little chimping and only 3 sec review. > Helen > took the E3 oly with 12-60 lens and 4 batteries and 3 CF cards. She > got > onto the third battery. > > The light was (at least for me and the cameras) very demanding. Bright > white cloudy skies, patchy sunshine and deep dark rain forests. Even > using > 3 stop EV shooting some scenes are too contrasty. I will need > lessons in > how to do HDR later, and almost every image needs lots of RAW work to > become presentable. Thank god for RAW. > > I will put up a web page as I work through the best images, but in the > meantime will post some here for you to make comments etc. > > So here is my first offering: > > http://tinyurl.com/24t6wus > > Day One on the track. Boots clean ;-) > > Alastair > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information