Toronto Photography Meetup Group

Radu, thank you for the ride!

I shot this in night 1 am in moonlight...

For those who like to keep track of details and where we were, here is the list of the shooting locations.

Mileage -- from my door and back again was 1515.1 km

DESTINATIONS LIST

Friday, July 23, 2010
1) Point Clark Lighthouse -- Point Clark, Ontario
2) Kincardin Lighthouse -- Kincardin, Ontario
3) Chantry Island Lighthouse -- Horseshoe Bay in Saugeen Township (just south of South Hampton, Ontario) - Also McNab Lighthouse in backyard of a private home.
4) South Hampton Front Range Light -- South Hampton, Ontario (rear range light across the highway partially hidden)
5) Wiarton Willie -- Wiarton, Ontario in Wiarton Willie Park
6) Lion's Head Lighthouse -- Lion's Head, Ontario
7) Sunset on Cape Hurd Rd -- Tobermory, Ontatio
Big Tub Lighthouse -- Tobermory, Ontario -- night shoot, star trails, ferry returning

Saturday, July 24, 2010
9) Sunrise on Little Cove Rd -- Tobermory, Ontario - also in the Bruce Peninsula National Park
10) Lookout Tower at the Visitor's Interpertative Centre -- Tobermory, Ontario
11) Old Car at Coach House Inn -- Tobermory, Ontario
12) Chi-Cheemong (Big Canoe in Ojibway) Ferry Crossing from Tobermory, Ontario to South Baymouth, Ontario on Manitoulin Island
13) Cove Island Lighthouse -- from the Ferry after leaving Tobermory, Ontario
14) South Baymouth Front Range Light -- South Baymouth, Ontario on Manitoulin Island (also say rear range light from ferry, and the ferry departing from the rocks)
14) Norisle Ferry -- Manitowaning, Ontario (old ferry being restored and hoepfully turned into a museum soon)
15) Manitoulin Roller Mill -- Manitowaning, Ontario
16) Manitowaning Lighthouse -- Manitowaning, Ontario
17) Manitowaning Mission Church -- Manitowaning, Ontario
18) Batman Mill -- Sheguiandah, Ontario (smaller replica of original mill)
19) Farquhar's Ice Cream -- Little Current, Ontario
20) Sunset at the beach -- Providence Bay, Ontario (moon rise shots, boardwalk, beach shots)

Sunday, July 25, 2010
21) Sunrise around the point -- Providence Bay, Ontario
22) Bridal Veil Falls -- Kagawong, Ontario
23) Kagawong Mill also known as Old Mill -- Kagawong, Ontario (also the Edwards Art Studio)
24) Communication Building (museum) & Pioneer Post Office -- Kagawong, Ontario
25) Kagawong Lighthouse -- Kagawong, Ontario
26) Kagawong Church and historic Buildings -- Kagawong, Ontario
27) Chocolate Works -- Kagawong, Ontario
28) Old Trucks -- Kagawong, Ontario
29) Misery Bay -- Misery Bay, Ontario (hike to Wolf Den - striations on the rocks from glaciers, pitted rocks, fossils in rocks, Misery Bay shoreline, butterfly)
30) Sunset on Gore Bay Cliffs -- Gore Bay, Ontario (Tall ship or Junk boat) on the East Bluff Lookout

Monday, July 26, 2010
31) Sunrise around the point -- Providence Bay, Ontario (also saw 2 white tailed deer)
32) 10 Mile Point Lookout -- south of Sheguiandah, Ontario (trading post of native merchandise)
33) Strawberry Island Lookout -- north of Sheguiandah, Ontario (lighthouse on tip of island can be faintly seen from the swing bridge)
34) Swing Bridge -- Little Current, Ontario (swings for 15 minutes at the top of each hour)
35) Whitefish Falls -- Whitefish Falls, Ontario
36) Big Nickel -- Sudbury, Ontario
37) French River Snowmobile Bridge and Interperative Centre -- French River, Ontario
38) Fish Bowl Restaurant -- Barrie, Ontario
39) Home

Myself I took a total of 1167 images about 28 gigs of raw/jpeg images

Expenses Ranged around $300.00 - $350.00 depending upon which vehicle and your room accomodations for the 4 days 3 nights weekend and any extra you may have purchased along the way. (3 nights accomodation, ferry, 1 lunch, 4 dinners, snacks, plus any foods you brought for lunches/breakfast/snacks, etc.)

We had a total of 13 people on the trip with 3 vehicles (2 cars & 1 van) all together.
Travelling up and back we had 10 people and 2 vehicles following each other.

Weather: Raining -- torrential down pour upon packing and departure. Rest of weekend was hot/warm and sunny everyday. Sunrise and Sunset the clouds were mostly in our favor.

A great and successful trip. One I enjoyed very much! Great company and lots of fun.

Not including film, 28 Gigs on A900, plus just shy of 2 Gigs on the NEX-5.

1075 images.

About 10 keepers on this trip for me after 470 shots mostly brackets. Not bad since my target was 10-15 for the year. I'm really happy with the turn out.

Some images from the weekend that I've managed to process today:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/34353273@N00/4850803643/" title="DSC02920_1_2_tonemapped (Large) by chris_hotwire, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4116/4850803643_1e3907fe0a.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="DSC02920_1_2_tonemapped (Large)"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/34353273@N00/4850628743/" title="DSC00185 (Large) by chris_hotwire, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4118/4850628743_2050edd09c.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="DSC00185 (Large)"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/34353273@N00/4851420824/" title="DSC02966_startrail (Large) by chris_hotwire, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4135/4851420824_a131424275.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="DSC02966_startrail (Large)"></a>



From the weekend, some software that might be of interest to everyone:

www.startrails.de -> software for doing startrails via multiple ~30 second exposures, instead of one big long one. This may come in handy for Torrance Barrens later this month.

http://www.geosetter.de/en -> Geosetter, for tagging location information into your photos. For those that want a copy my gps datalog files, email or pm me, and I will email you the files.

http://stephentrainor.com/tools or http://photoephemeris.com/ -> TPE, The Photographer's Ephemeris, software for knowing ahead of time where the sun will rise or set, to allow you to plan your shots accordingly.

Nice shots, Chris!

I'm actually reading on how to do startrails on my camera. Trying to find out the pro and con of multiple 30 second exposures vs the long exposures (i.e. 15 mins, 30 mins... 60 mins...).

The links you posted maybe of good use for me . Thanks for sharing!

I was recently reading up on this in prep for Torrance Barrens.

Because of heat digital sensors are susceptible to more noise the longer the exposure is regardless of ISO. In other words, it's possible to get a less noisy picture with a higher ISO than a longer exposure at a lower ISO. So by matching up the 30 second exposures you aren't heating up the sensor with 30 minute, 3 hours or whatever length exposures. You do have to weigh this against the amount of noise your camera produces at higher ISOs of course. My source on this is Scott Bourne.

Chris that first shot is killer

Nice shots Chris. Still working on mine. I got wicked poison ivy and haven't done much over the past few days but elevate my feet & plaster my leg with bandages. Sigh.

I think I've got around 600 shots. Lots of bracketing and experiments. Lots of deletions.

Shuttereye, please send me the retouching site you were telling me about.

Caught that cloud on my side too Chris

Finally getting around to some editing.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyta1138/4859255198/" title="Manitoulin 2010 by lyta1138, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4094/4859255198_9fa3593682_b.jpg" width="1024" height="680" alt="Manitoulin 2010"></a>

For Alice for Lin
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyta1138/4858644057/" title="Manitoulin 2010 by lyta1138, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4139/4858644057_ef7f22667c_b.jpg" width="1024" height="680" alt="Manitoulin 2010"></a>

We have to try this again! So much fun!

Wow, Lin did a good job on this one! Thanks, Pam!

We should definitely do this again. I know where we can do this .

Thank you for posting all the details. This has inspired me to perhaps do a very similar trip with my wife. Hope you won't mind if I use this thread as a guideline for an itinerary!

Paradise on earth

Go ahead and use the details as a guideline for you future trip. If you come across anything interesting post it to let us know for possible future trips with different places to see.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/enian82/4864087999/" title="525 by Yeshwanth_enian82, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4117/4864087999_fcebe60c53.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="525"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/enian82/4861826822/" title="523 by Yeshwanth_enian82, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4118/4861826822_8315e345b3_z.jpg" width="640" height="427" alt="523"></a>

Once again I have to say, there is a very nice collection of shots in this post!

Beautiful Images. This is inspirational.

Good Job People.

WOW!! Some wonderful images. Looks like an eventful fantastic trip....jealous here.

+1. Love the pics!

Where did you folks end up staying at?

In memory of Galen and Barbara Rowell, Aug 11, 2002.
http://www.mountainlight.com/, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... well2.html


Fondest memories growing up and looking at his photos in National Geographic. I still remember...

That one is awesome Randy...Love it...

Thanks buddy. Settled this on manual blending. Printing this on the weekend sans the skewed horizon and artifacts.

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Thanks for indulging me Sue. I had to pull you in

Wonderful shots everyone!