Posts for: Lance Pearson
Nov 13, 2017 21:01:24 #
obviously...the b25 is tho
Oct 31, 2017 01:34:49 #
Oct 31, 2017 01:33:20 #
Oct 30, 2017 19:38:08 #
I would just have deleted this one in post processing. (clouds) No focus on anything interesting that I could see. Most delete far more than they save...or you get buried in images quite quickly. I have a nikon d4 that shoots up to 11 fps...you can die in a hurry with 200 images to post! This one not worth messing with. lack of anything interesting to see.
Oct 30, 2017 19:35:39 #
great idea. Suggestions...step to the right three or four more steps then shoot keeping the metal angled weir completely out of the photo..adds nothing, is distracting. Also crop to eliminate the logs in the water to focus the viewer's eye just on the tree, the reflection, the water and the color. I took the liberty of cropping to show you what one of the things that could be done with the image. Great start on composition. You have an eye for it..now refine the technique either directly or through post or both. At least that is what I would think to do. Your artistic senses may make you go in other directions but the result just from cropping improved a good composition significantly by eliminating the extraneous so the eye focuses on the core...my view anyway.
Oct 30, 2017 19:25:37 #
Nice. Why, out of curiosity, so much negative e.v? - 3.0 is a lot. I usually shoot - 0.3 but at night I would shoot neutral or plus slightly. Something you do with a Leica?
Also, handheld or tripod?
Also, handheld or tripod?
Oct 30, 2017 19:20:34 #
I have a friend out there on the mesas now vacationing for four months camping with a van and I'd suggest if you want to see a mountain not to include the fences which all of a sudden change the perspective to make the fence posts look huge and the mountain small when what I would normally like to see is a hint of the big mountain and maybe something of the foreground but modest amounts. The pictures to me look way too much like fence photos instead of mountain photos and I think you really meant to get Hermit's Peak, NM instead of Fences miles from Hermit's Peak, NM. Great shots of the fence though! Perspective is a funny thing to handle for me anyway. I don't always get it right either.
Oct 30, 2017 19:12:00 #
His name was actually Hiram Ulysses Grant but a clerical error at West Point forever dubbed him U.S. Grant and he finally accepted it. Last year of the war he led it from headquarters at City Point, Hopewell, Va. on the Epps plantation but he did not stay in the plantation house, instead preferring a small log cabin on the property. When the war was ended Lincoln came down and spent a week with Grant and this was two weeks before Lincoln died and he did stay in the vacant Epps Plantation house. You can see the difference in the two. There are some cobblestone roads there and it was at City Point where the James and Appomattox rivers join. In the spring and summer of 1865 that spot on the water would have had 350 ships anchored or coming and going with supplies. His camp there made 15,000 loaves of bread a day for his armies there and in the siege of Petersburg about 15 miles south of there. Lots of history here, Indians, then Colonial, then Civil War...in every direction. All shot with Sony a7 with 35 year old canon fd f 3.5 35-105 mm lens at iso of about 800 on gray, darkish day and most at 1/1000th or so. All manually for shutter opening, speed, iso and focus. You get very used to it again especially with the dot focusing system on the a7 The image of city point where the plantation is is the point on the right extending out into the confluence of the two rivers from the right...taken two miles away.
Grant was a quiet, no artifices man who went out of his way to not have fusses made over him....even getting Lincoln to agree when he was made Union General of all Armies that he would never have to have his hq in DC...in fact, he shared one at Culpepper, va with his second, Meade, the whole time and traveled weekly to update Lincoln who trusted him completely and told him he did not want to know what he was doing, just tell him and congress what he needed. Lincoln and Steward had had to get involved with all the prior generals and neither felt comfortable doing it. Grant got the job because he had caught and killed more men and armies than any man in history by then and their faith in him to end the war proved justified. Grant used his top generals Sherman and Sheridan to cut the west [art of the confederacy and its big army under Johnson off as they marched to the sea which totally cut the ability to supply anything to the east in terms of food, supplies, men, etc.. Meanwhile Grant pushed Lee Relentlessly to Petersburg which was a railroad junction town of 5 railroads which supplied the capitol city, Richmond, then eventually defeated him capturing his Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Courthouse and the South collapsed their succession movement. Horrendously bloody war.
All of this is about 8 or nine miles from my home which was on the high ground over the James between what was Lee's Army (Howlette) and Grant's ((benjamin Beast Butler) and no one fought on our land, just sortied back and forth over it.
Grant was a quiet, no artifices man who went out of his way to not have fusses made over him....even getting Lincoln to agree when he was made Union General of all Armies that he would never have to have his hq in DC...in fact, he shared one at Culpepper, va with his second, Meade, the whole time and traveled weekly to update Lincoln who trusted him completely and told him he did not want to know what he was doing, just tell him and congress what he needed. Lincoln and Steward had had to get involved with all the prior generals and neither felt comfortable doing it. Grant got the job because he had caught and killed more men and armies than any man in history by then and their faith in him to end the war proved justified. Grant used his top generals Sherman and Sheridan to cut the west [art of the confederacy and its big army under Johnson off as they marched to the sea which totally cut the ability to supply anything to the east in terms of food, supplies, men, etc.. Meanwhile Grant pushed Lee Relentlessly to Petersburg which was a railroad junction town of 5 railroads which supplied the capitol city, Richmond, then eventually defeated him capturing his Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Courthouse and the South collapsed their succession movement. Horrendously bloody war.
All of this is about 8 or nine miles from my home which was on the high ground over the James between what was Lee's Army (Howlette) and Grant's ((benjamin Beast Butler) and no one fought on our land, just sortied back and forth over it.
Oct 28, 2017 01:55:46 #
they are harvesting today. each bale weighs 5,000 pounds...off to the cotton gin to get seeds out on flatbed trucks is next then on into thread and cloth....100% mechanized today. on this plantation in 1840 it would all have been done by slaves.
Oct 28, 2017 01:52:05 #
this year we had three months of virtually no rain so the cotton balls are not as large or numerous as other years but pima cotton is famous in its own right
Oct 28, 2017 01:50:21 #
Oct 24, 2017 21:17:21 #
Just before harvest at the huge farm next to Shirley plantation, colonial on the james river in virginia, is upper shirly vinyard and restaurant and farm...one of the best looking farms ever and this is the old south but now done completely mechanically, cotton, them old cotton fields not far from my home....real cotton before it gets to you....just before harvest.
Oct 24, 2017 21:08:15 #
Some decent close ups of the old war birds which are very well taken care of...a p 51, the Mitchel b25, the B24 and the Liberator, the huge B17..all there, all working. shot with Nikon d4 and pro quality 28-70 f 2.8 lens hand held at about ten thirty a.m. you can see the bomb sight on the b24 nose below the gun turret up forward
Oct 24, 2017 21:00:12 #
here they were charging $450 a ride in the bombers and the corsair was listed as top speed 446 mph and the mustang 437 mph. I have read that you could dive a mustang really well and also that you have to be very careful with the corsair as the engine had so much torque you could flip it on the deck before ever rolling a wheel. both cool looking planes. dive speeds would be phenomonal
Oct 24, 2017 20:53:51 #