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Photo opportunity crowd-source suggestions

kvbarkley — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 15:18:47 GMT

This weekend I am going on a whirlwind photo tour of the California Coast.

Mainly to get pictures of this:

https://www.experiencepismobeach.com/beach-and-outdoors/monarch-butterflies/

However, I think I will also take in this in Paso Robles:

https://www.sensoriopaso.com

I will probably be there after sunset.

Any ideas for images, settings and techniques?

Re: Photo opportunity crowd-source suggestions

Waddizzle — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 19:33:12 GMT

@kvbarkley wrote:
This weekend I am going on a whirlwind photo tour of the California Coast.
Mainly to get pictures of this:
https://www.experiencepismobeach.com/beach-and-outdoors/monarch-butterflies/

However, I think I will also take in this in Paso Robles:
https://www.sensoriopaso.com

I will probably be there after sunset.
Any ideas for images, settings and techniques?

Bring a tripod.

When it comes to sunrises and sunsets, you can get some of the best shots when the sun is just below the horizon, and is lighting up the underside of any clouds in the sky.

Also, keep looking behind you as the light changes.

Sometimes you can stunning shots of the sky with the sun at your back when the sun is just below the horizon, too.

Re: Photo opportunity crowd-source suggestions

kvbarkley — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 20:30:35 GMT

I am going to be there an hour or so after sunset, so it will be totally dark.

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Waddizzle — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 21:15:16 GMT

@kvbarkley wrote:
I am going to be there an hour or so after sunset, so it will be totally dark.

I switched devices and checked out your links. COOL! Take a tripod, anyway. Looks like an awesome experience.

Re: Photo opportunity crowd-source suggestions

kvbarkley — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 22:45:39 GMT

Yeah, I had never heard of the Field of Light before.

I will have my travel tripod, not the best, but better than me. 8^)

Re: Photo opportunity crowd-source suggestions

kvbarkley — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 00:43:29 GMT

I just read the website, no tripod's allowed. 8^(

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RobertTheFat — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 02:23:10 GMT

@kvbarkley wrote:
I just read the website, no tripod's allowed. 8^(

And what constitutes a "professional camera" in this context?

Re: Photo opportunity crowd-source suggestions

kvbarkley — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 03:10:01 GMT

Hopefully not a Rebel. I hate weasely words like that.

Re: Photo opportunity crowd-source suggestions

shadowsports — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 15:04:57 GMT

KV,

Probably too late.. Hoping you can take a 70~200 f2.8 and a 16~35 f2.8

I think a wide angle lens at the butterfly grove won't do as well as a zoom since you'll want to capture some detail at distance. The butterflies "cluster" themselves together. I visited one in Pasdena many years ago.

The 16~35 will do well capturing that sea of lights and be fast enough after dusk. But I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. Too bad about the tripod. I'm sure they get knocked over by the hoard. 🙂

Looking forward you your pics.

Re: Photo opportunity crowd-source suggestions

Waddizzle — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 15:06:04 GMT

@kvbarkley wrote:
Hopefully not a Rebel. I hate weasely words like that.

This is where my M3 becomes handy. It is not much larger than a pack of cigarettes. The 22mm f/2 lens that I like to much is a pancake lens, and it gives the equivalent angle of view of 35mm on a full frame.

Re: Photo opportunity crowd-source suggestions

ebiggs1 — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 16:36:41 GMT

One word, Powershot. Perhaps a G7x.

Re: Photo opportunity crowd-source suggestions

kvbarkley — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:58:41 GMT

I have my Olympus TG-5, but I am already taking so much stuff, I guess I will have to use the iPhone if they throw out the T6S.

I have decided to switch from my current walk-around of the 18-135 to the 15 - 85. Those extra 3 mm might make a difference. 8^) I will also have my 70-300 II for telephoto.

For the butterflies, I am also going to take my 430EX to try and light up inside the bundle of butterflies. I actually was there 12 years of so ago with my Minolta APS SLR. I am sure I can do better now. I might show some of the old ones too, just for contrast. Actually, there are *many* fewer butterflies there now than when we went before, next weekend there might be a few thousand people watching a few thousand butterflies. 8^)