Daily Life

The smoke cleared out enough you could see the Highwood Mountains tonight.  So I ran on out to the railroad tunnel and got these from the hill above it.  The colors were hard to process for me.  I really need to take some more lessons on post-processing some of these more difficult photos.

(1/20s f/8.0 ISO400 600mm -1/2 stop 7D)

(1/20s f/8.0 ISO400 600mm -1 stop 7D)

(1/8s f8.0 ISO400 600mm -1/2 stop 7D)

(1/10s f/8.0 ISO400 600mm 7D)

Here is the setup I was using.  My Canon 400mm is about to leave for Africa, so I fell back on my Sigma 600mm Mirror lens.  It is manual focus, and modern digital cameras rely mostly on auto-focus.  It is not easy to manually focus one of them, so I used an old tried-and-true trick.  I focused on the ridge line using the magnified LiveView seen on the back of the camera below.  After I focused on the closest thing to infinity I could, I put a piece of Mustache Ducttape on the lens to keep the focus ring from moving.

(1/100s f/2.8 ISO400 6mm (35mm eq:28mm) -1/3 stop P7100)

A closer crop.  You can see the tape on the top of the lens.

A double moonrise…

(1/13s f/8.0 ISO400 37mm (35mm eq:173mm) -2/3 stop P7100)

(1/25s f/5.6 ISO400 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) -3 stops P7100)