[Leica] Scaling Half Dome on the cables

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

+1
Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Very cool!
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
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>
> Sonny
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