Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC

Only once in my life have I been the target of camera envy. I attended a reenactment at Fort Ticonderoga with Lake Champlain in the background and the green mountains of Vermont off to the left. Since the audience had to sit a great deal removed from the action, I brought out the long shooter: a Canon 7D with a Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II with a Canon 2.0X extender, all mounted on a monopod. That white lens (with color-coordinated extender) caused quite a stir and a few intrepid souls asked if they could peep through the lens for a closeup of the action. They got a good look.

Fort Ticonderoga, NY - 1/250 sec., f/5.6, ISO 100, Spot Metering, Normal Program Mode

Heirloom Tomato Loc: Oregon

That must have been fun. This is a good shot. Beautiful country!

St3v3M Loc: 35,000 feet

It seems You won.

ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore

Nicely done. A friend of mine reenacts the Civil War. His first interest when he started was the Revolutionary War; but the uniforms are all pre-industrial revolution and hand made. That makes them very expensive. He opted for the Civil War as his area of interest because there are more people doing it and because of the expense of hand made uniforms. One of the highlights of his reenacting was being involved in repelling Picket's Charge at Gettysburg. This was during the 125th anniversary of the battle and they actually had 12,000 (the actual number) of mock soldiers making the charge. The scene was captured for the movie "Gettysburg".

Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC

I'm not quite sure to which side you're referring. Historically, Fort Ticonderoga changed hands 5 times, rotating between the British, French and Americans.

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

Good shoot, just those 2x extenders really do a number on the noise. If you have Topaz you might want to run through the DeNoise, it brings it some.

Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC

Bill, I'm not happy with the detail that a denoising program steals from the fellows emerging from the woods. I use NIK Software's Dfine, and Imagenomic Noiseware, tried both, but hit the Undo when I saw the results.

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

I understand that, sometimes you win, some times you lose, just like at Fort Ticonderoga.

RichieC Loc: Adirondacks

It was her cannons that Knox somehow transported , in three winter month's, all the way to Boston Harbor, Installing them overnight in the heights over the Harbor... this influenced the British to leave.

They were made of different stock in those days, it's a long drive between the two, let alone a 3 month winter walk with 60 tons of cannon!

Ticonderoga is a beautifully kept Fort and worth the visit. There are others around there, most in ruins, as well as Saratoga Battlefield. We were busy at that time up here. "Drums along the Mohawk" took place right along where I live. Read that book and you'll understand the 2nd amendment.

http://dmna.ny.gov/forts/maps/fortMapB.html


ON the sharpening, you could duplicate your image in PhotoSHop or similar, apply sharpening to the top layer, then make a mask for the sharpened layer that "shows All" ( white), and working in the mask by paining black with a soft brush, "paint" out JUST the sharpening where you DON'T wan't it. he mask allows the unsharpened lower level to show through the white "holes" you painted in the mask. You'll never notice the difference beween the two and in fact, a shade of grey- instead of pure white, will slightly allow whatever precentage the grey is, to show THAT percentage of the sharpened layer to show. (ie; Grey at 50% will show 50% of the sharpening. )

By working in the mask, you can paint it in and out ( black or white) till you like it.