Moon...
Today, a new attempt in Lunar photography, with the sam Soligor lens.
300mm, f/8, Shutter speed 1/90 sec., ISO-400, shake reduction (SR) - ON , the problem here was that the sky was a bit foggy.
Monday, October 26, 2009
An other trip to the Blue Lagoon - Aghires 1.
The wooden church in the village.
Some textures from the rocks...(more to come...)
...dead nature...
Reflections, colors are not saturated,...this strong yellow comes from the sunset...
Reflections-The moon reflects in the lake
Some closer shots...
And the "playground" two panorama images from the lake...
In this panorama, you can observe the high contrast between the greenery, see the difference between life and death...the right part was strongly affected by mining...
Sunday, October 25, 2009
The moon...
These are the first shots of the Moon, with the K10 and my Soligor 60-300mm C/D 1:4-5.6 manual lens, these images are 100% cropped from the original with ~ 30% sharpening.My biggest problem was of course, camera shaking (SR off when, shooting from tripod), at 300 mm it was very obvious that it won't be an easy shot, even with a tripod was very hard, even the mirror shaked the camera, I need to purchase a wireless remote control, to shoot without problem or a more robust tripod :)
This first image was taken from my tripod, at 300mm, f/4, Shutter speed 1/90, ISO-100.
The second image was taken without a tripod, but the camera was steadily fixed, at 300mm, f/8, Shutter speed 1/125 sec., ISO-400, shake reduction (SR) - ON
Over all, I like this lens, I like the quality of the images, it is not bad for a 15+ year old manual lens, but I'm confident that with a remote control the quality will be better. And now I'm thinking about a 2X teleconverter...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Our journey to Huda lui Papara cave and the waterfalls above...
Saturday morning, I woke up earlier, and I sad ... hmmm, the weather seams to be nice, ... we need to go somewhere!!! ... so I called some friends (Razvan & Andrea) and we where off ...
But as we approached Turda -Disaster-Heavy clouds and fog ... I was a bit afraid that the weather in the mountains may be worst, but no problem, we will see...
So, as we approached the Arieseni valley, the weather started to give us some hope, and after a few kilometers, the sun was out...and I had a big smile on my face!
... and we stopped again at this waterfall, I like it very much, and if you are following this blog for some time you should recognise it.
... and I made some photos with my soligor lens too...
... the colours in the valley, at this part of the year, are fantastic, form red-orange-yellow-brown to green, in strange combinations ...
As we got down from the main road, and entered deeper in the mountains, we arrived to a small villige where I spotted this nice donkey...
really nice...
Ascending ...
I parked the Golf near the monastery, and we headed to the cave first, to Huda lu' Papara's cave, it has a big entrance, but we couldn't visited by lack of equipment ...
The entrance of the cave, photo from the "bridge" ... this cave is a speleological reservation that shelters karst formations inside the longest cave in the Trascau Mountains.The cave is situated at the NW side of Trascau Mountains at an altitude around 600m.The protected area is about 4.6 ha and consists of the limestone wall in which the portal of the cave opens, as well as the galleries that reach 2022 m in length. As a speleologist, I visited this cave two times (2002 and 2005), it is very wet, and full with blocks and rocks, waterfalls, bats...it's not easy to reach the final waterfall, but this is a very beautiful cave...I loved it.
Some small waterfalls in front of the entrance ...
After a while, we started to assent again, this time on foot, on a narrow 2,5 km "road", it is quite hard if you are not in shape, not mentioning that in 2002 I was climbing with ~25-30 kg of equipment without a problem, today I was dying slowly...
But I survived, and the view was astonishing, I saw this many time, but every time im an impressed by this view...in the image bellow, you can see, that he sun is only lightening the monastery in the valley...it was nice...
...just look at it...You have a fantastic wiew from up there, it's worth the effort. ASTONISHING This is a HDR* image to see better between the dark and light regions.
Up there you can find some interesting "architecture" I love these cottages ...
Descending to the waterfall...
In the bottom of that breach is the biggest waterfall of this region, some 30 m...
...and here it is, the waterfall I was after, it's a real beauty, but this is more beautiful in march or april, when the snow is melting and rain is present frequently, now it's a narrow water flow...but it is beautiful...you can see some 70% of the waterfall from this view.(vertical panorama image from 2 photos)
After more descending there is a small canyon, with tiny waterfalls, between 1 and 2 meters tall,
This was our turning point, we headed back, when I saw these lines on the wall, the lines are paralell with the trees, this is a great view, I liked it very much...
As we stopped for a rest I saw this dry plant, I went for som close-up shots, when I discovered something attached to it, something liveing, but maybe hibernateing...
I made a crop, to see better but this was takem without a macro lens, so it is not the best quality.
On the way up, the sun was going down, and its warm light filled the landscape, resulting some very nice colors.
The cave again...
This was a very nice trip, we closed the day with a fine meet, and we headed home...
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* - HDR - (High Dynamic Range) A photographic technique in which several shots are taken of the same high-contrast scene at different exposures. Highlights from the underexposed images and shadows from the overexposed frames are blended together to create a more natural look.
Saturday morning, I woke up earlier, and I sad ... hmmm, the weather seams to be nice, ... we need to go somewhere!!! ... so I called some friends (Razvan & Andrea) and we where off ...
But as we approached Turda -Disaster-Heavy clouds and fog ... I was a bit afraid that the weather in the mountains may be worst, but no problem, we will see...
So, as we approached the Arieseni valley, the weather started to give us some hope, and after a few kilometers, the sun was out...and I had a big smile on my face!
... and we stopped again at this waterfall, I like it very much, and if you are following this blog for some time you should recognise it.
... and I made some photos with my soligor lens too...
... the colours in the valley, at this part of the year, are fantastic, form red-orange-yellow-brown to green, in strange combinations ...
As we got down from the main road, and entered deeper in the mountains, we arrived to a small villige where I spotted this nice donkey...
really nice...
Ascending ...
I parked the Golf near the monastery, and we headed to the cave first, to Huda lu' Papara's cave, it has a big entrance, but we couldn't visited by lack of equipment ...
The entrance of the cave, photo from the "bridge" ... this cave is a speleological reservation that shelters karst formations inside the longest cave in the Trascau Mountains.The cave is situated at the NW side of Trascau Mountains at an altitude around 600m.The protected area is about 4.6 ha and consists of the limestone wall in which the portal of the cave opens, as well as the galleries that reach 2022 m in length. As a speleologist, I visited this cave two times (2002 and 2005), it is very wet, and full with blocks and rocks, waterfalls, bats...it's not easy to reach the final waterfall, but this is a very beautiful cave...I loved it.
Some small waterfalls in front of the entrance ...
After a while, we started to assent again, this time on foot, on a narrow 2,5 km "road", it is quite hard if you are not in shape, not mentioning that in 2002 I was climbing with ~25-30 kg of equipment without a problem, today I was dying slowly...
But I survived, and the view was astonishing, I saw this many time, but every time im an impressed by this view...in the image bellow, you can see, that he sun is only lightening the monastery in the valley...it was nice...
...just look at it...You have a fantastic wiew from up there, it's worth the effort. ASTONISHING This is a HDR* image to see better between the dark and light regions.
Up there you can find some interesting "architecture" I love these cottages ...
Descending to the waterfall...
In the bottom of that breach is the biggest waterfall of this region, some 30 m...
...and here it is, the waterfall I was after, it's a real beauty, but this is more beautiful in march or april, when the snow is melting and rain is present frequently, now it's a narrow water flow...but it is beautiful...you can see some 70% of the waterfall from this view.(vertical panorama image from 2 photos)
After more descending there is a small canyon, with tiny waterfalls, between 1 and 2 meters tall,
This was our turning point, we headed back, when I saw these lines on the wall, the lines are paralell with the trees, this is a great view, I liked it very much...
As we stopped for a rest I saw this dry plant, I went for som close-up shots, when I discovered something attached to it, something liveing, but maybe hibernateing...
I made a crop, to see better but this was takem without a macro lens, so it is not the best quality.
On the way up, the sun was going down, and its warm light filled the landscape, resulting some very nice colors.
The cave again...
This was a very nice trip, we closed the day with a fine meet, and we headed home...______________________________________________________________
* - HDR - (High Dynamic Range) A photographic technique in which several shots are taken of the same high-contrast scene at different exposures. Highlights from the underexposed images and shadows from the overexposed frames are blended together to create a more natural look.
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