Craig NC

Nice pic.  I was there in August for the Monsoon.  While there were lots of people, the only parking issues for me were in the middle of the day, when shooting isn't optimal anyway.  -- Craig Zerbe ...

Thanks, These were just a few I took.  Here are a couple others,  before the rain hit.  I liked the first one I posted because of the contrast with the blue sky.  The ones below, the blue sky is ...

I have a fairly new web site that has a number of blogs talking about areas you can take Grand Canyon photos from. You may find it helpful in planning where you want to shoot. ScenicTraveling.com P ...

Spent 7 days in August at the North Rim and 3 days at Bryce Canyon for the first time.  I don't think I have ever photographed any place that is as photogenic as Bryce Canton.  It was hard to take ...

thanks I've seen the site.  Not quite enough specifics to be of use.  Many of the leaf reports are connected to tourist site, so they are reluctant to say anything negative.  Its mostly about the ...

Have been in the North Carolina Blue Ridge for last 10 days - very late and the worst color I have ever seen here - I have a place up in the mountains and have shot here for a number of years.  ...

We are up in the Blue Ridge this week with my wife.  Her brother and his wife came for a visit, so we took them to Cone Manor on the Parkway, which has a National Park Service information and gift ...

Depends on conditions and how much hiking to location is required. always rain shell, head lamp, extra batteries and SD. longer hikes. Lowepro 200 sport backpack, A7Rii, Sony 24-105, maybe 16-35 if ...

I would use you "best" camera, but do not plan on changing lenses.  I also put a shower cap around mine when moving about, or if you are going further between shots, put it away in your backpack.  ...

Gary,  thanks, the 4th image was a 2 image focus stack - one of the closeby rocks and another near infinity.  I do think the haze does add some contrast to the sharpness of the close up rocks and ...

Yes, this seems about right.  I started with 20 sec and I could see obvious trailing. I  dropped to 15 sec, when I reviewed my first few takes.

Yes, all my lenses are a focus by wire variety.

As an example, with a 16mm lens 1 degree of sky might be 1000 pixels wide on one camera and on mine the same 1 degree is covered by 1700 pixels becuase there are so many mega-pixels (I am just ...

That 500 rule, I think, is for cameras with a lot fewer pixels than the A7Rii

North Kaibab trail descending into the Canyon.  Was a bit of an effort to find good photo ops with the fires going on a few miles away and half the roads closed.   I did run into 2 different photo ...

You do not need the top pano head if the base of your ball head is level. Then use the in camera level for side to side level.  Angling up, down or level is up to you, based on what you are ...

If the alignment is off then your problem is that your base is not level.  I am your ball head has a pano function at the base.  This must be level for the alignment to be accurate.  You either ...

How far away is your closest object likely to be?  I had a Nodal Ninja setup for landscape and after a while realized, for my landscape work, I just didn't need it.  I do use an L bracket so that ...

Very nice composition.  I looked over the first image.  In spite of it being very heavily sharpened, thet image just is not sharp (maybe f18 is the issue there).  The sky has a huge amount of ...

It would not appear that Sony needs to change anything in the near term, after reading the details of the new Nikon's.  There is nothing here for Sony to panic about.  Almost any offering Nikon ...