Toronto Photography Meetup Group

Thanks to everyone who showed up. It was a nice day overall.
I hope everyone enjoyed themselves. There were some nice clear skies
but they did not last too long.

Tim

One of two exposures I did longer than 30 seconds:



917 seconds, 2.8 @ ISO200.

According to Susan, we took the clouds with us. She said it stayed clear the rest of the night after we left.

Thanks Tim for organizing the event.
Thanks a lot Nella for the ride.
I really enjoyed it. Lots of new friends. New area(at least for me).
I love that place.
and specially I love those songs of iphone that Chris has played.. . Thanks Chris..

Some of my shots from the event....

Nice weather

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/timras/4872700057/" title="Highland Pond by timras, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4116/4872700057_de3e4e24ab.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Highland Pond"></a>

Picnic

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/timras/4872700331/" title="Picinic by timras, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4122/4872700331_979cd7b25f.jpg" width="500" height="246" alt="Picinic"></a>

Waiting

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/timras/4872700517/" title="Waiting by timras, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4872700517_07300a3cf9.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Waiting"></a>

Sunset

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/timras/4873308892/" title="Sunset by timras, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4873308892_6600164000.jpg" width="500" height="298" alt="Sunset"></a>

Big Dipper

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/timras/4873308988/" title="Big Dipper by timras, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4140/4873308988_ceafba180a.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Big Dipper"></a>

Tim

Current guess is these are partridges that were seen on the hike around the lake:



The lake:



Shooting sunset:



Sunset:



Light Pollution in the Dark Sky Reserve:



A starfield:

I had a wonderful time with all the wonderful people at the event .
Tim, thanks for organizing such a great event!
Eddie, thanks for the ride!
Sebastien, thanks for keeping our wonderful driver busy... I mean awake .

Ions, great images. Super. I think your birds are Common Nighthawks. Nice capture.

DG

Thanks! Yeah, I think you're right, it does appear that my birds are Common Nighthawks.

A few from the trek around the pond:

Navigating the mud







Safely walking down the side of the road...or, you know...not

Thank you Tim. It was a very enjoyable day.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelrecord/4874032072/" title="Torrance Barrens sunset by es136, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4073/4874032072_383a7fd1f5_z.jpg" width="640" height="418" alt="Torrance Barrens sunset"></a>

Good times.
I met a lot of new people.
Thanks for organizing Tim!

How do I post images in this forum? I tried to use the [img] tags, but it doesn't work. Help please.

Great trip. Fun people to hang out with. Learned new stuff. Thanks everyone.

So can anyone give any advice on what LED headlamp to get, that I can permanently leave in my camera bag for night events light this, or sunsets or sunrises?

Any LED light will do as long as you can remove the lens. I got a long roll of red gel from active surplus for 3 bucks and did my own. I can give you a piece.

dollarama has led headlamps for 2 bucks... add the gel mentioned above (or the toilet paper package plastic that I demonstrated)

The headlamp I had at the Barrens was an older Petzl model bought at the MEC store on King. It has a flip up red filter so I can go from white to red very easily. I also have a second headlamp that has a red lens that was a replacement lens. I bought the lens as part of a multi colour kit form MEC and it works with an even older Petzl model. MEC no longer seems to have the lens kits.

MEC does not seem to carry the Petzl model with the flip up lens anymore either. But they do have a model that uses white LEDs with a red LED included. It is the model Petzl Tikka Plus 2 Headlamp, but it is $37.

Another option I was considering trying out for quick camera checks and control adjustments is this light sold for bicycling called the MEC Turtle Red LED Light. It is a small red LED light and there is a two light version with a red LED as well (there are also white versions). The single light is less than $4 and the double is just under $5.

http://www.mec.ca/Products/product_deta ... 4302692895

DG

A bit of a belated but thanks for oganizing this, it was great - couple of my shots as well:

Gah! Oh yeah?! Take this!

You should post this in the in the Critique Corner. I know someone that may comment

I've been screwing around with this image off and on for a while, I think I'm getting close to what I want from it:

That's really gorgeous ^ I love the blues and greens and the glassy reflection and don't shoot me here as I know you didn't ask for any critique but I feel that the top sky is a little too blue if you dodged it to match the reflection or burned the reflection a bit - I don't know that's just what I would do but don't listen to me. And let me know if this was inappropriate to say here.. I apologize if it was.

totally...inappropriate

I would've removed the color fringe first.

Indeed. Still too much blue. This is caused by two problems. The first is when I first work on an image I blast the crap out of the saturation because... well, because I like to (although I usually return to the image later and back it off a bit) and because of the second problem: I do my editing on a laptop with an uncalibrated screen which is quite a bit darker than how most people have their screens set and it's also probably off, by at least a bit. So, what seems like slightly over-saturated colour to me on my laptop (what I want) ends up being too much on other, properly calibrated screens. If I were to print this or were to present it somewhere more professional I would make an effort to make sure the colours were right.

The colour fringe could not be removed first because it was caused by the pushing of the blues. I'm aware it's there although it's not really visible at that res - one reason I made it no larger - unless someone magnifies it to look for problems.