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Ed Cesnalis

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Big lesson from the first 2 rolls of film is that that light room work is the hard part.  With good light room skills you could get better results from a 5mp camera than I can get from my 24mp camera.  With practice that is changing.

 

A couple more the 2nd time thru the light room.

 

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Its hard to share 24mp photos on the web. All photos above are highly compressed.  Google presentations seems to do a good job of showing them full size with as much detail as your screen can muster.

 

What do you see on your screen? https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cx1H5jj7nRUMT9hs6Y4lSnOeFqKynnH5ICqxxzF_tMo/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=5000  5 images 10 seconds each

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A single suction cup transmits a lot of vibration, and the longer the arm, the more that vibration is amplified.

 

Using a second arm to triangulate is often a big help.

 

Love to see how your new setup works out - good luck!

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I'm headed back to my homeland in a few weeks with a sony a6300 to take photos of the boyhood farm from a J-3.   Having found hand-holding a telephoto a prescription for a distraction stall, I'm desperate to find a decent camera mount for the cub.

 

 Was the sucking of your suction mount simply vibration?  Looked like the knuckle-joint arm was going to be hard to keep in place with the vibration acting like lubrication.

 

 I'm curious if you were able to get any shutter speeds that were fast enough?   I saw one of your posts you shot at 1/180 and 1/250 in bright sun.   I'm curious in that case why you wouldn't go for a high-ish ISO, the heck with aperture, and fastest possible shutter?   

 

BTW:  awesome photos.   I'd guess on your 4k monitor they are knockout.   Living in the west's attic has its perks.

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Here's a shot from the long kit lens.  Its not severely flawed like the prior shots from the wide kit lens.

 

One reason prime lenses make more sense in my CT is that they are shorter.  This morning with the long zoom out the vent the mount wouldn't hold, the relative wind on the lens sticking way out of the vent was too strong.

 

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This is where I live, most of the hoses are hidden by the forest.

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First shots with a non-kit lens from this morning.   this is a 35mm prime lens which translates to 52.5mm in a 35mm format.

 

 

 

Here's a shot of Virginia Lakes and Dundenberg Peak.

 

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Frog Lakes and Excelsior Mountain

 

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Mt Dana and Dana Plateau

 

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I have come to the conclusion that only CT pilots and owners like landscape photos with parts of a CT in them.  Some CT pilots like that a lot.

 

20kts @ 12,000' is too much for me to photograph the Sierra but not too much to fly and avoid the rotors.

 

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Wow! Very nice pictures Ed. Thanks.

Out of six attempts I've been up Mount Humphreys twice. The trips ranged from expeditions with as many as 12 people (unsuccessful) to as few as just me (1 unsuccessful, 1 successful). We tried in the winter (2 unsuccessful) and summer (2 unsuccessful, 2 successful). We tried the back side (2 unsuccessful) and straight up the ridge in the foreground of the first of these photos (2 unsuccessful, 2 successful). The trips ranged from 5 days (unsuccessful) to a one-day attempt with an unplanned bivouac that extended it to two days (successful).

And though the pictures are wonderful (especially the first by the way, which better shows the peak's prominence and the route) I have a bit of a problem with your reference to Mount Humphreys' elevation as 12,635. Mount Humphreys is 13,986 - just 14 feet shy of being a fourteener. I think you may have its height confused with that of Humphreys Peak, a walk-up in central Arizona.

So, when does Ed's Mountain Light Gallery open so I can buy a print? Climbers aren't much of a market, but I think you can also sell framed Mammoth Mountain prints to skiers. And then there's the art people that would be happy with any pretty mountain photo in their living room.

Mike Koerner

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oops, cut and paste, i know better.

 

Horror stories of climbing Humphreys, best friend and his party descended from the summit down the couloir  in total darkness.  Lucky they are amazing mountaineers.  They have repeatedly tried to kill me on such climbs.  We skied the couloir on Red Slate and got out on our own again only because of the amazing ability of one of our party to hike out after tumbling down the granite face of a 13er.

 

It the couloir in this cell phone photo.

 

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Prints available soon.
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BTW Mike,

 

The reason I prefer the lower one is the view of the active glacier still building incredible looking morraine(s).  Looks very Little Ice Age to me.

 

This photo started quite a debate about the nature of the land form that's lit up.  Even geologist experts insisted it was a land/mud-slide but others could see it was a rock glacier.  We now have a definitive answer for the foremost expert and it indeed is the overburden from a pleistocene rock glacier.  Bet is there is no remaining ice.  Its quite interesting due to its southern exposure, lower elevation and no cirque.  It also has not obeyed the rules that are assigned to rock glaciers.

 

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I bet you know this one Mike:

 

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