The Good Life in Sun Valley: A few more shots from beautiful Ketchum, ID...

Rob47 Loc: Naples, FL

A few more shots from beautiful Ketchum, ID

Early morning paragliding

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Hiking Trails

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Trout fishing

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Very appealing compositions and scenery!

Kingmapix Loc: Mesa, Arizona

Your trout fishing scene really "sings"' to me.

Rob47 Loc: Naples, FL

Linda From Maine wrote:

Very appealing compositions and scenery!

Thanks Linda. Such a beautiful spot. A great place to work on landscape photography.

Rob47 Loc: Naples, FL

Kingmapix wrote:

Your trout fishing scene really "sings"' to me.

Thanks. That was taken a little downstream from a small bridge.

MtnMan Loc: ID

Rob47 wrote:

A few more shots from beautiful Ketchum, ID

Nice images. Thanks for the inspiration.

Headed over there today. We have tickets for the ice skating show on Saturday. Since schools started I'm hoping we can find a campsite close to town.

Rathyatra Loc: Southport, United Kingdom

Very nice - *3 I like best!!

Rob47 Loc: Naples, FL

MtnMan wrote:

Nice images. Thanks for the inspiration.

Headed over there today. We have tickets for the ice skating show on Saturday. Since schools started I'm hoping we can find a campsite close to town.

Great! Look forward to some of your images. For what it's worth, the ice rink manager is: Scott Irvine. I just talked to him this past week. He'll remember my wife fell on the ice and broke her wrist. There are a number of campsites nearby. Checkout the town of Hailey as well. Not far from Ketchum. Good luck!

MtnMan Loc: ID

Rob47 wrote:

Great! Look forward to some of your images. For what it's worth, the ice rink manager is: Scott Irvine. I just talked to him this past week. He'll remember my wife fell on the ice and broke her wrist. There are a number of campsites nearby. Checkout the town of Hailey as well. Not far from Ketchum. Good luck!

Thanks. Will do.

We are familiar with the Sun Valley Area. We used to live in Idaho Falls and now near Boise. We used to ski there. We know where the campsites are and hopefully there will be plenty of space during the week because school started in Idaho yesterday.

The ice skating show allows cameras (much to my surprise)...but no flash. Dithering on what lens to bring. I know it won't be the Sigma 150-500 because that would intimidate our seatmates.

Rob47 Loc: Naples, FL

MtnMan wrote:

Thanks. Will do.

We are familiar with the Sun Valley Area. We used to live in Idaho Falls and now near Boise. We used to ski there. We know where the campsites are and hopefully there will be plenty of space during the week because school started in Idaho yesterday.

The ice skating show allows cameras (much to my surprise)...but no flash. Dithering on what lens to bring. I know it won't be the Sigma 150-500 because that would intimidate our seatmates.

Here's my take: Bring exactly what you think you'll need. As long as you're not using flash people don't mind and the ones that do you'll never see again :). If you are sitting in the seats at the lodge you will probably need the 100-500mm. If you are in the bleachers you are very close but at one end of the rink or the other. I used my 70-200 2.8 a few times. My best shots were with the 50mm 1.4 with the subjects close and still. Not easy though. Since the subjects are only lit by spot lights I (the camera) had a difficult time focusing with all the movements. Back button focusing helped some. As a side note: the horse that brings the flag out for the anthem is, Chester. I rode him for a few hours a couple of days before the ice show. Good luck and stay in touch! Rob

Chester

MtnMan Loc: ID

Rob47 wrote:

Great! Look forward to some of your images. For what it's worth, the ice rink manager is: Scott Irvine. I just talked to him this past week. He'll remember my wife fell on the ice and broke her wrist. There are a number of campsites nearby. Checkout the town of Hailey as well. Not far from Ketchum. Good luck!

The ice show was very nice. I learned how much I have to learn about taking images at such events. Here's a few of the best I could muster this time around. I had to use ISO 6400 thus the overall low quality. But I also learned how to adjust settings for this kind of thing and next time I know better where to sit.

Live and learn.

MtnMan Loc: ID

Rob47 wrote:

Great! Look forward to some of your images. For what it's worth, the ice rink manager is: Scott Irvine. I just talked to him this past week. He'll remember my wife fell on the ice and broke her wrist. There are a number of campsites nearby. Checkout the town of Hailey as well. Not far from Ketchum. Good luck!

Oops...double post.

I might add that we found a Forest Service campground 2 miles up Trail Creek from Sun Valley. I had forgotten about that one. We got a nice space for the exorbitant sum of $5 per night...not exactly Sun Valley Rates. Stayed four nights and found some great hiking around the area...hadn't been there for quite a while so we had a great time. Very uncrowded. This weekend might see a little bigger crowd as they have a wagon festival going on.

Rob47 Loc: Naples, FL

MtnMan wrote:

Oops...double post.

I might add that we found a Forest Service campground 2 miles up Trail Creek from Sun Valley. I had forgotten about that one. We got a nice space for the exorbitant sum of $5 per night...not exactly Sun Valley Rates. Stayed four nights and found some great hiking around the area...hadn't been there for quite a while so we had a great time. Very uncrowded. This weekend might see a little bigger crowd as they have a wagon festival going on.

Did you use the 100-500 lens? Yes shooting at an ISO of 6400 with that kind of light is tricky. Like you, I learned a lot and will know more when I try again. As I said, we were in the bleachers next to ice so we were close. You got some good shots even though there was some noise. Glad you had a good time. My sister landed there tonight. Wish I was back but work calls!

MtnMan Loc: ID

Rob47 wrote:

Did you use the 100-500 lens? Yes shooting at an ISO of 6400 with that kind of light is tricky. Like you, I learned a lot and will know more when I try again. As I said, we were in the bleachers next to ice so we were close. You got some good shots even though there was some noise. Glad you had a good time. My sister landed there tonight. Wish I was back but work calls!

No, since I had opted for the fourth row I brought my 28-300. Less likely to whack the heads in front of me. Heads were a bit of a problem so next time I'll do the front row. I had forgotten they take down the railings for the show and was concerned about shooting through the railing. The show wasn't sold out so we could have had front row.

I first tried using RAW and aperture priority. Even at ISO 6400 I was getting too low a shutter speed so I went to shutter priority. I also started with AF-S, which I normally use, but I found was problematic with the quick relatively close movements, so went to AF-C. I started with matrix metering also...but then switched to center which helped not overexpose the skaters. Then I went to jpeg to increase the frame rate. I still wasn't able to anticipate the jumps. And I am not able to do as much with the jpeg images as with the RAW ones.

I can do a little better with these images by using Topaz on them...but I'm not sure they are worth it.