Ed Cesnalis Posted June 25, 2016 Report Share Posted June 25, 2016 I flew for 45 minutes at 12,000' and got these 12 shots. They are not edited. http://imgur.com/a/QIxP2 click photos once for full screen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Jefts Posted June 25, 2016 Report Share Posted June 25, 2016 Nice photo's. I think you made the right choice in camera's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastEddieB Posted June 25, 2016 Report Share Posted June 25, 2016 Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Cesnalis Posted June 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2016 Here's one of the group above with the wing cropped out, and compressed to get by this uploader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT4ME Posted June 26, 2016 Report Share Posted June 26, 2016 Wow... 'Gave me a chill, and we need that here in AZ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Cesnalis Posted June 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2016 The uploader here says max 30mb but a 14mb upload fails. Here is a 2 mb version that has been adjusted in light room. and more: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Cesnalis Posted June 29, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2016 And now there is wild fire smoke spoiling my fun before I get started. Forget the wide open blue sky and narrow my focus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Cesnalis Posted July 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 Mammoth Mountain Ski Area still open for skiing - 1 more day. 1/100 sec. f/8 18mm 1/80 sec. f/8 18mm 1/80 sec f/8 23mm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Cesnalis Posted July 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 Back to the light room with this one. The light room work is the hardest part. 1/125 sec. f/9 50mm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Cesnalis Posted July 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Cesnalis Posted July 9, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Cesnalis Posted July 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2016 The suction mount sucked. I ordered a handheld gimbal, cost more than the camera. I would like a gimbal for my wing too. http://www.feiyu-tech.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastEddieB Posted July 12, 2016 Report Share Posted July 12, 2016 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pointpergame Posted July 13, 2016 Report Share Posted July 13, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Cesnalis Posted July 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2016 Here's a couple at higher ISO. 1/1250 sec. f/4 20mm ISO 125 OR 1/1250 sec. f/4 18mm ISO 250 or 1/1250 sec. f/4 25mm ISO 250 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Cesnalis Posted July 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2016 Here's the last photo with my new 24mp set-up. Lesson learned, don't buy the cheap kit lenses. The one I shot with to date is de-centered and blurred the left side of the photos. I'll have a prime lens tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Cesnalis Posted July 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 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. This is where I live, most of the hoses are hidden by the forest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Cesnalis Posted July 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 Another from the long kit lens. I wonder how many people would buy this camera with the bad lens and never notice? I did notice pretty soon but at first thought it was vibration or movement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Cesnalis Posted July 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2016 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. Frog Lakes and Excelsior Mountain Mt Dana and Dana Plateau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Cesnalis Posted July 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Cesnalis Posted July 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2016 A long lens shot at Bear Creek Sprire Elevation: 13,726′ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Cesnalis Posted July 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2016 If you can't tell, I'm on a self taught crash corse to learn mountain aerial photography. Below: Mt. Humphreys elev: 13,986' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Koerner Posted July 23, 2016 Report Share Posted July 23, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Cesnalis Posted July 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2016 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. Prints available soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Cesnalis Posted July 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2016 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. I bet you know this one Mike: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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