On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > > A week from today I'll be taking off for Phoenix to join a couple of my > long-time, well-known sisters and another we'll be meeting for the first time > -- we only discovered her this past January; she's English; our father served > in the US Army Air Force in England during WWII -- and then spend most of the > week following in Northern Arizona, taking in the Grand Canyon and other > sites in up there and in the Four Corners. > > I haven't been doing much shooting, but I imagine I'll be shooting a fair bit > on this trip. Following advice given by several here earlier, I'm taking my > DS and one lens, an a 28/2.8. There will be a lot of light, of course, and I > imagine I'll be wanting to be doing shooting mid-day. > > Any suggestions? Forget it? Take a filter? If so, what kind? Anything else? I > am the rankest amateur on this list. [I don't deserve to be here, I learn a > lot lurking, and you're so nice to me.]
When I travel light, I like to bring two lenses, a zoom and a fast prime. The zoom gives you the range of lengths, and the prime allows you to shoot in low light. If you're shooting outdoors, it can be very handy to have a polarizer. Not that the polarizer won't work as well to bring out the clouds shooting either directly into, or directly away from the sun as it will shooting at 90 degrees. I.e. late afternoon, west and east wont work as well as north and south. I'd recommend getting one and playing with it. Here are some shots from my doing just that: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157603433853310/ If you think that you're the rankest, you obviously have not smelled certain of the people on the list. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
