Friends of mine might disagree with you on the climbing. They seem to find lots of good close places (everything's granite here), but you might still have to drive...Toshi said:
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Aah, I see. Lynn Woods goes up to 940 feet...Toshi said:
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1031564
also, i've decided that linear throttle response is a good thing. as in the next high powered car that i own (however many years that may be away
) will probably be naturally aspirated.
also, i've decided that linear throttle response is a good thing. as in the next high powered car that i own (however many years that may be away
) will probably be naturally aspirated.
after coming back from a few days of driving a honda CR-V around the throttle response on my WRX doesn't feel bad at all. the clutch (on my car, not the cr-v) was amazingly heavy, tho. either that, or my left leg suffered serious atrophy secondary to too many lungfuls of boston-area haze. sorry, guys, didn't have any time outside of the wedding festivities and was stuck in carlisle for most of the time.
many pics to come tomorrow
many pics to come tomorrow
http://tinyurl.com/md98tToshi said:
http://tinyurl.com/mrsnd
http://tinyurl.com/prbe4
some highlights of this, my first professional wedding gig (albeit for friends), since there are a TON of photos, especially if you don't know the people as i do
the bride:
the groom and his older brother:
a cute kid x 2 (not theirs!):
everyone and their mom has a digital camera now. good thing the secret is in the lighting (i shot just about everything with a softbox), angles, and postprocessing
the groom's mother, pleased as punch:
the groom with nice natural "hair lighting"
tossing the bouquet -- note how all the "old girls", my college friends, are well back. no one wants to be the next to get hitched!
my old orchestra conductor and music theory/composition prof:
general rowdiness, all the college crowd:
a wannabe cover shot for the band playing at the reception (the keyboardist was the groom's brother):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7477398372572962859&q=super+7
whoa. (lotus super 7 on a gymkhana course. like autocross but with stuff you have to go through backwards, etc.)
whoa. (lotus super 7 on a gymkhana course. like autocross but with stuff you have to go through backwards, etc.)
Take it for what it's worth from an old guy: Back in the day, I learned to drive stick in a Porsche 912 (4 banger). The rule was watch the tach and don't upshift below 3,000 rpm. With the turbo VWs and Subarus, I've heard it is more like 4 or 5K rpm.Toshi said:http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1031564
also, i've decided that linear throttle response is a good thing. as in the next high powered car that i own (however many years that may be away
yeah, you can see that the torque really jumps up at 4k or so (dyno chart here).HarryCallahan said:
i've "solved" the problem paradoxically by lowering the revs below 4k, by pulling out of spirited corners in 3rd gear instead of 2nd. in 1st and 2nd the car is simply too violent when it comes on boost for most roads. it's a lot easier to be smooth in 3rd even if it comes at a slight expense in pure speed -- it feels more satisfying to have a long, smoothly ramping up pull from 3k to redline in 3rd vs. two violent, short pulls in 2nd and then 3rd.
but this is all a moot point, as my car is in storage some 2750ish miles away from me for the next 6 weeks.
http://tinyurl.com/qqgmf
i'm going to post a general-interest thread in the lounge on this, but here i'll share more technical details and whining on my july 4 trip to Denali.
the light was very poor for the most part, as were shooting conditions: private cars are not allowed more than 15 miles into the park, while the access road stretches at least 90+. instead it is serviced by these buses:
the buses were quite full -- i arrived there at 6:15 am after leaving fairbanks at 4, and was just able to snag the last ticket for the 7:30 bus when the ticket counter opened at 7. who were the buses full of, you ask? old people. with cameras. annoying, they were, especially when they made the bus stop repeatedly on sighting of sheep or other pedestrian beasts literally a mile away across a valley. picture this: "look at those white dots!" followed by frenetic snappings-away on shutter buttons...
in addition to that annoyance, the landscape itself wasn't as dramatic in most places as i might have expected of mighty alaska. there were a few nice vistas, however, and here's an example at ISO 200, 12 mm, f/13, 1/80. note that i really have to clean my sensor
-- the dirt shows up especially in the stopped-down landscapes and the later macros...
yes, macros: i decided that making my own light and concentrating on miniscule bundles of color would save the day, and ended up snapping a ton of macro shots with the ST-E2 on camera and the 420EX w/softbox held with my other hand at a 45 degree angle. here's a sample (with the sigma 180 macro) at ISO 400, f/22, 1/250
finally, after my two batteries on the big camera were used up and my legs were spent after a two hour hike up and down a small mountain, we ran across a bear and her cub. this bear obliged by moseying on by the bus, and i snapped away vigorously with my old S30, which still had some juice in it:
i'll make another post linking to the lounge thread once that's up. it'll have a different selection of photos + text which i'll mirror on my xanga (or just look at all of them in the gallery link atop this post if you don't like words and such
)
i'm going to post a general-interest thread in the lounge on this, but here i'll share more technical details and whining on my july 4 trip to Denali.
the light was very poor for the most part, as were shooting conditions: private cars are not allowed more than 15 miles into the park, while the access road stretches at least 90+. instead it is serviced by these buses:
the buses were quite full -- i arrived there at 6:15 am after leaving fairbanks at 4, and was just able to snag the last ticket for the 7:30 bus when the ticket counter opened at 7. who were the buses full of, you ask? old people. with cameras. annoying, they were, especially when they made the bus stop repeatedly on sighting of sheep or other pedestrian beasts literally a mile away across a valley. picture this: "look at those white dots!" followed by frenetic snappings-away on shutter buttons...
in addition to that annoyance, the landscape itself wasn't as dramatic in most places as i might have expected of mighty alaska. there were a few nice vistas, however, and here's an example at ISO 200, 12 mm, f/13, 1/80. note that i really have to clean my sensor
-- the dirt shows up especially in the stopped-down landscapes and the later macros...
yes, macros: i decided that making my own light and concentrating on miniscule bundles of color would save the day, and ended up snapping a ton of macro shots with the ST-E2 on camera and the 420EX w/softbox held with my other hand at a 45 degree angle. here's a sample (with the sigma 180 macro) at ISO 400, f/22, 1/250
finally, after my two batteries on the big camera were used up and my legs were spent after a two hour hike up and down a small mountain, we ran across a bear and her cub. this bear obliged by moseying on by the bus, and i snapped away vigorously with my old S30, which still had some juice in it:
i'll make another post linking to the lounge thread once that's up. it'll have a different selection of photos + text which i'll mirror on my xanga (or just look at all of them in the gallery link atop this post if you don't like words and such
)
here's a cool site, albeit with somewhat quixotic grammar and spelling
http://www.diseno-art.com/encyclopedia/strange_vehicles/strange_vehicles.html
http://www.diseno-art.com/encyclopedia/strange_vehicles/strange_vehicles.html
alaska has riverboats! who would have guessed: they actually were used to haul junk about on the alaskan rivers commercially until 1960 or so. the only junk on the one i took a ride on today is the bags of souvenirs old people brought with 'em...
http://tinyurl.com/kceya
http://tinyurl.com/kceya
i shoot a canon 20D with the following lenses and supporting equipment:
canon 420ex flash
a little softbox that velcros to the sides of the 420, was only $15 or so
canon st-e2 for off-camera flash work
remote shutter release cable, the cheap one without the timer
bogen/manfrotto 3001? 3021? can't remember tripod
sigma 12-24mm f/4.5-5.6 hsm
canon 28mm f/1.8 usm
canon 50mm f/1.4 usm
canon 135mm f/2.0L usm
sigma 180mm f/3.5 hsm macro
polarizers for the 28, 50, 135, 180. none for the 12-24 as none fit it. no protective filters or anything like that -- i paid for good glass and wish to shoot with it, not through some $30 piece of glass-of-unknown-quality. i shoot at 12mm and 135mm predominantly unless i know i'll be shooting across a table (50mm) or for macro work (180 + stopping down + flash).
canon 420ex flash
a little softbox that velcros to the sides of the 420, was only $15 or so
canon st-e2 for off-camera flash work
remote shutter release cable, the cheap one without the timer
bogen/manfrotto 3001? 3021? can't remember tripod
sigma 12-24mm f/4.5-5.6 hsm
canon 28mm f/1.8 usm
canon 50mm f/1.4 usm
canon 135mm f/2.0L usm
sigma 180mm f/3.5 hsm macro
polarizers for the 28, 50, 135, 180. none for the 12-24 as none fit it. no protective filters or anything like that -- i paid for good glass and wish to shoot with it, not through some $30 piece of glass-of-unknown-quality. i shoot at 12mm and 135mm predominantly unless i know i'll be shooting across a table (50mm) or for macro work (180 + stopping down + flash).
good choice. focusing beyond infinity as in the b&h pic is not recommended . seriously, with the 15mm fisheye (which i used to use) and the 12-24 autofocus is nearly useless and unnecessary: just set it to 1 or 2m as appropriate and stop down.
. seriously, with the 15mm fisheye (which i used to use) and the 12-24 autofocus is nearly useless and unnecessary: just set it to 1 or 2m as appropriate and stop down.
i just a sigma 30 f/1.4 in the mail today...i think i'm gonna absolutely dig it.
i've got a pic up in the 'cold beer/new lens' thread in the Beer/Food forum. that was wide open, ISO 400 or 800? the exif data may still be in the jpg.
hey toshi, thanks for that. it was interesting to see the perspective from someone technically proficient in music, rather than just seeing the emotional impact of how the music affects one. i know squat about music theory, so i have zero basis for talking about that sorta stuff.
i do know that polvo made up their own tunings.
i do know that polvo made up their own tunings.
15 miles. 2700 vertical feet. 7h 40m on the trail, including nearly an hour where i was lost and bushwhacking. 3 bloody toenails. and all so that i could take some pictures of rocks:
granite tors trail
in the gallery note the time-taken captions on the shots that have my face in 'em.
granite tors trail
in the gallery note the time-taken captions on the shots that have my face in 'em.
hmm. moth > hobie 16? i have to try one someday
http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/photos/06/mothworlds/
http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/photos/06/mothworlds/
Your old screenshots inspired me to dig through my backup archives and I ran across this pictures from my hacking days... koan.happyhacker.org was a wargames machine that people were challanged to break into. I spent a couple hours one afternoon with good results
yeah, some kid on bustedspoke had that in their sig file a while back. kinda freaky!Toshi said:this is pretty cool:
i quite like how this video looks:
http://www.cleancutfilms.ca/stripped_teaser.html
clean, catchy font and transition on the titles, what looks to be good camera work...
http://www.cleancutfilms.ca/stripped_teaser.html
clean, catchy font and transition on the titles, what looks to be good camera work...
arctic circle
sorry for the somewhat poor exposure. this is with a ton of tweaking to the raw file in conversion, too.
who needs to see brakelights? not the drivers behind me or anyone else on the dalton highway, that's for sure
sorry for the somewhat poor exposure. this is with a ton of tweaking to the raw file in conversion, too.
who needs to see brakelights? not the drivers behind me or anyone else on the dalton highway, that's for sure