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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #40 on: April 26, 2013, 01:52:37 PM »
Care to share what's in your kit?

$4K is just the cost of the gear i used, not my backups, which I (thankfully) didn't need to use.  Also, i really should have said $5k!
-$3800 Camera Equipment
-$1500 a77+16-50
-$1500 70-400
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-$500 various other equipment (batteries, memory cards, cleaning stuff, camera bag).


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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #41 on: April 26, 2013, 01:53:12 PM »
did you sail through Drakes Passage?

Yes - on the return trip from the Peninsula to Falkland Islands we crossed the passage. Oddly it was the calmest seas we experienced!

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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #42 on: April 26, 2013, 02:00:15 PM »
So are all these pics digitally "enachanced"?!
#TooUnreal

Haha well there are many books that could be written about what digitally enhanced means, but let me make a few points:
- I record images on my camera in a digital negative format, which you can think of as the equivalent of film negative
- Like a film negative, a digital negative is not easily viewable by itself, and needs to be converted to a viewable format: JPEG for digital, Print for film
- The conversion from negative format to viewable format requires the photographer to make various choices about how that conversion happens. For my photos, I'm making choices on contrast, saturation, sharpness, selective brightness, and so on.
- Even if I didn't make these choices and converted directly to jpeg in camera, the camera would be making the choices for me
- I make these conversion choices in Adobe Lightroom, which was modeled after the types of edits one would be able to make in a film darkroom
- My edits modify existing pixels, but do not create new ones, with the one exception of cloning out dust spots on my sensor (which is incidentally, an issue that film is immune to)
- None of these photos were edited in Photoshop
- These photos, to the best of my ability, represent the environment and subjects that I saw on my trip

Hope that helps!

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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #43 on: April 26, 2013, 02:10:51 PM »
What season did you go in? I'm guessing Summer.
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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #44 on: April 26, 2013, 02:14:24 PM »
What season did you go in? I'm guessing Summer.
Winter=Night

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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #45 on: April 26, 2013, 02:20:45 PM »
I'm curious as to what month: Nov, Jan, March etc
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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #46 on: April 26, 2013, 05:43:15 PM »
Great Webinar! I loved 18:11 http://www.ericlew.com/antarctica
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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #47 on: May 07, 2013, 02:01:36 PM »
Great Webinar! I loved 18:11 http://www.ericlew.com/antarctica
Finally got around to watching it. It is amazing and totally worth the 40 minutes.

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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #48 on: May 07, 2013, 02:38:46 PM »
- I record images on my camera in a digital negative format, which you can think of as the equivalent of film negative

You mean RAW?

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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #49 on: May 08, 2013, 08:43:17 AM »
You mean RAW?

Same thing. In fact Adobe's RAW files end with .dng, for Digital Negative.
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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #50 on: December 29, 2013, 09:10:06 AM »
Only flights to MPN are on Shabbos

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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #51 on: May 19, 2015, 03:35:02 AM »
WOW! amazing pics. not sure how i missed this till now

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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #52 on: June 26, 2015, 02:21:51 PM »
WOW! amazing pics. not sure how i missed this till now
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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #53 on: October 13, 2016, 10:12:05 PM »
All the pics are gone  :'(
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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #54 on: October 13, 2016, 10:24:26 PM »
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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #55 on: October 14, 2016, 02:40:13 AM »
All the pics are gone  :'(
one day you'll get your own ;)

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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #56 on: October 14, 2016, 02:46:03 AM »
one day you'll get your own ;)

Not with his current attitude, he won't :P. But I give it a week and he'll be hopping again.
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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #57 on: October 14, 2016, 02:50:42 AM »
Not with his current attitude, he won't :P . But I give it a week and he'll be hopping again.
well if not hopping, at least happy

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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #58 on: October 14, 2016, 02:51:34 AM »
well if not hopping, at least happy

LOL
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Re: Flying Penguins: Antarctica via Points
« Reply #59 on: July 22, 2018, 04:55:39 PM »
one day you'll get your own ;)
Prophecy