Posts for: Lance Pearson
Feb 11, 2017 08:09:18 #
The others all had twice the hp of the tuned 1976 Vette and I had no experience so I was slow but oh, what fun driving my excellent 1976 on VIR's 3.27 mile 17 turn track. Took me a while to learn how fast I could enter corners without rolling it, etc. but the last three sessions I took a minute a lap off my lap times each and had a terrific day. A 1976 tuned had maybe 225 hp versus modern cars easily with 400 hp so it was relatively slow but it got 100% of the looks.... a piece of living sculpture tho not nearly as fast as my 1991 ZR-1 with the lt5 engine which can hit 195 mph......and 8200 rpms with it's six speeds. If you want to be a passenger go to this link and you can see what a lap felt like riding along...I mounted a camera and filmed some... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjK2uPWc9Bk
This was it on a dyno after new true duals, bullet cats, flowmasters and tuning to see how much hp had been added. Perfect car. He runs it up to around 130 mph on the dyno to check the power curve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56CMNpa7LkU
This was it on a dyno after new true duals, bullet cats, flowmasters and tuning to see how much hp had been added. Perfect car. He runs it up to around 130 mph on the dyno to check the power curve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56CMNpa7LkU
Feb 11, 2017 07:57:37 #
The track is used all year long for testing, club races of various kinds, all sorts of races including motorcycles and I have raced my 1976 Corvette there myself. At every corner there are tracks where people have taken off due to driving errors of various kinds. There are enough barriers that the cars don't get to the spectators. One of those shots is a Lambo that wrecked into a pile of tires as well. A lot of money to dump at 100 mph into even a stack of tires barrier!
Feb 11, 2017 07:30:05 #
Several brands and the Oak Tree Grand Prix 2.5 hour race for all GTLM and GT cars was held at VIR's 3.27 mile, 17 turn excellent course on the Virginia Carolina border not far from Danville, Va. These cars can really haul. All the brands raced, Corvette, Porsche, Ferrari, Maserati, et al. These all shot with a Nikon from one of the corners headed up the esses into a straight where they were going to haul it at full blast which would be speeds over 140 mph on the short straight there, much higher on the long strait into the finish line approaching 175 to 195 mph. Colorful cars. Lots of sound and fury! On the way there we saw this gorgeous 1955 chevy convertible as well!
Feb 11, 2017 07:19:42 #
I thought this North Carolina tobacco field and associated barn I saw on the way to dinner with friends in Chapel Hill Friday night was very scenic. The next day I spent the weekend at VIR watching the Oak Tree Grand Prix with every manner of GTLM race car in various class and brand races...colorful weekend.
Feb 8, 2017 06:35:27 #
I am in the USA and bought all my Nikkor pro lenses via Amazon. I did not buy new but their used "very good quality" which is substantially less expensive and they are perfect. I did buy a 35 and 50mm f 1.4 prime each new from them. Their prices and service were the best I found. I use Amazon a lot with their Prime to save me running all over hell's half acre with an suv shopping and if it is a major purchase like a vacuum cleaner, lens, etc. I first look to see if they have used and if it is via their warehouse store which means it is an open box. Quite often it is just a return with open box. Been doing this for six plus years about and have not once, not ever gotten anything but good stuff at substantially discounted prices. Just look for Very Good Quality and read the detailed description on the item is my practice.
Works for me.
Works for me.
Feb 8, 2017 06:30:41 #
Feb 7, 2017 08:00:50 #
I migrated to full frame lenses even on my dx nikon d7000 which worked fine and eventually a year or less ago to a nikon D4 full frame camera but the dx lenses work on it still tho at cropped sensor image sizes. What evolved for me from my D90 on up to the D4 in lenses to cover a range of compositions, distances, functions is the BIG 28-70mm nikkor pro lens which I bought used in very good condition..92mm diameter at the end and f 2.8 and an 80-200mm f 2.8 nikkor pro lens also bought used in very good condition. I shoot one or the other depending on where I am and composition. I also have 35mm and 50 mm f 1.4 prime lenses but use them seldom. The older dx lenses including an f4.5 zoom to 300mm nikkor don't get used much nor does the Tamron 150-600mm monster distance zoom (way too heavy). 90% of outdoor scenes I shoot with the 80-200mm which is fast and indoors the 28-80mm is very hard to beat. Add it to the D4 full frame camera and its stupendous sensor and you have great quality images a high percentage of the time.
Feb 6, 2017 07:41:04 #
Sadly, if you have serious aspirations to good photographs you are likely going to have to invest in a solid, superior tripod and they don't exist for under $100. Try three to five times that. If you graduate to any kind of long lens like a 500 or 600 you will want a supremely steady, very heavy duty tripod that is solid as a rock. Most good tripods now have central posts that can reverse and the camera can be shot with remote down low to the ground as well. If you shoot 300mm or more you are going to need to either pan with the shot or be rock steady or the maginifcation will make it very difficult to avoid soft edges or downright poor focus. I've owned several tripods and ended up using the biggest, steadiest and most expensive one I can afford when I do occasionally use a tripod. I wasted a lot of money getting to that point and could use even a steadier, more expensive one than I have now. A hard lesson but no way around it unless you have a bench where you can really steady yourself, your frame and your camera. Carbon fiber does not make a tripod steadier just lighter. It does make a bigger one easier to carry though the cost is commensurate often. I have a 150-600mm lens but it is so much work to shoot well it generally stays in the box in the camera cabinet. I learned I did not want to put that much effort into shooting a bird 40' away. It is there if I need it but I sort of regret buying it now. I shoot Nikon for good stuff and travel with a canon eos m3 great little leaf shutter that never sees a tripod. I actually found more use for a very heavy duty monopod from Opteka shooting a big, heavy Nikon D4 with 80-200mm or 28-70mm big lenses. The unit weighs around 7 pounds all up and it gets tiring shooting it without the monopod.
Feb 6, 2017 07:29:02 #
10 days traveling 1500 miles in Washington State with canon eos m3 and 17-85mm lens...the coutry east of the Cascades is dry, anything but rain forest below Wenatche and east almost to Spokane and Idaho..the Columbia Plateau where there are still some wild mustang horses.....ranch country largely and the Yakima River has some of the best catch and release trout fly fishing you can imagine..I did it with guide and drift boat for two days. This is generally in the Ellensburg area.
Feb 6, 2017 07:10:26 #
You might want to hear one version of what I think, subjectively, as realism first. There are a couple of markets so oversupplied breaking in is nearly impossible. One is the market for screenplays where they are literally a dime a dozen. The other is photographs. Everyone has cameras nowadays and the volume of images is enormous. It is as oversupplied as a market as you can possibly imagine. However, if it is what you want to do give it a shot!
So, if you decide to use one of these channels to sell, be realistic as it's probably wise to keep your day job even if your work is very, very good. With the number of cameras out there even the non pros accidentally take a good image now and then and they are all out there in the public domain.
I tried the print, matt, set up in art fairs route. It was fun meeting people but about as slow as watching grass grow a way to spend your time.
After a long career in business I decided that photography will be a high level amateur at best no matter what level of skill I manage to or might manage to attain.
So, if you decide to use one of these channels to sell, be realistic as it's probably wise to keep your day job even if your work is very, very good. With the number of cameras out there even the non pros accidentally take a good image now and then and they are all out there in the public domain.
I tried the print, matt, set up in art fairs route. It was fun meeting people but about as slow as watching grass grow a way to spend your time.
After a long career in business I decided that photography will be a high level amateur at best no matter what level of skill I manage to or might manage to attain.
Feb 1, 2017 06:39:38 #
Jan 31, 2017 10:21:14 #
Thank you one and all. These are the elegant Borzois, most descended from the Majenkir kennel of nearly equal fame to the Perchino kennel both of which emerged after the 1917 purge which killed the rulers of Russia and slaughtered all the Borzoi who were symbols of the nobility. These dogs were all descendants of dogs which had been given to ambassadors or others outside of Russia previously. All the dogs in the photos shown are all American AKC Grand Champions which is as good as it gets so you won't see a whole lot better in Borzoi.
I happen to own two myself. One, Rom, has impeccable breeding, nothing but champions and grand champions all the way back as far as it goes. A big boy at 88" long from tail tip to nose. Far Field Remoulade by formal name. The other is a girl bred to a Russian Sire and a rescue, Princess Liliana, both 4 years old starting in their prime. Great company, highly intelligent and independent dogs and perhaps the best overall athletes of the big dog breeds. Hit 45 mph, jump an 8' fence and have reflexes like you would not believe. They corner like sports cars and love to play. My two are the sweetest company a widower can have! Rom is an extremely special boy from Louisiana who loves to sing along with the old New Orleans blues song: The house of the rising sun! Liliana is my sweet little princess.
I happen to own two myself. One, Rom, has impeccable breeding, nothing but champions and grand champions all the way back as far as it goes. A big boy at 88" long from tail tip to nose. Far Field Remoulade by formal name. The other is a girl bred to a Russian Sire and a rescue, Princess Liliana, both 4 years old starting in their prime. Great company, highly intelligent and independent dogs and perhaps the best overall athletes of the big dog breeds. Hit 45 mph, jump an 8' fence and have reflexes like you would not believe. They corner like sports cars and love to play. My two are the sweetest company a widower can have! Rom is an extremely special boy from Louisiana who loves to sing along with the old New Orleans blues song: The house of the rising sun! Liliana is my sweet little princess.
Jan 31, 2017 07:06:55 #
I enjoyed your photos and am hoping someone has some wisdom for the intensity question I face that I saw in your first image, upper left portion.
Jan 31, 2017 06:46:53 #
Your first one illustrates a problem I have when photographing flowers either with my Nikon d90, d7000 and my d4 full frame now or my travel canon eos m3 (it does better actually than the nikons!)
Whenever I try a flower with such intense mass of color deep reds, blues, etc. it tends to overwhelm the sensor's ability to manage the color. What I've found works for me since I don't use filters is I crank the - e.v. way up to something like -1.0 and focus on a fairly narrow center spot setting. Even so, the intense masses of colors as yours above tend to wash definition out and not reflect exactly what it is.
Perhaps someone knowledgeable will tell us both how best to deal with that issue.
Lance Pearson
Whenever I try a flower with such intense mass of color deep reds, blues, etc. it tends to overwhelm the sensor's ability to manage the color. What I've found works for me since I don't use filters is I crank the - e.v. way up to something like -1.0 and focus on a fairly narrow center spot setting. Even so, the intense masses of colors as yours above tend to wash definition out and not reflect exactly what it is.
Perhaps someone knowledgeable will tell us both how best to deal with that issue.
Lance Pearson
Jan 30, 2017 15:40:12 #
I like having the smaller leaf shutter for travel (also on my motorcycle) and the bigger, much more capable full frame Nikon for other uses. Several professionals who shoot canon carry the m3-5 bodies as backups to their full frame canon since with an adapter all the lenses will work. Easier than lugging two big dslrs around. I shot both companies but I have the lenses and am comfortable as I don't carry both at the same time.
I am a big fan of the mirrorless. The M3 I have, Canon, has a magnesium frame I think and feels quite solid.
I am a big fan of the mirrorless. The M3 I have, Canon, has a magnesium frame I think and feels quite solid.