Foy said:
Have a good one, Mark. Any chance of visiting the Stolpa rescue site?
Looking forward to your report and photos.
Foy
Thanks, Foy. To venture to that remote spot I'd have to be sure I wouldn't get stuck in the snow myself.
Not sure how deep the snow is on the Sheldon right now, but as the Stolpas discovered -- what the signs clearly say -- the roads are "Not maintained in winter". I have a full set of chains, but I wouldn't put those on
to get into trouble -- just to get out.
Wandering Sagebrush said:
Mark, have fun! I enjoyed your 2011 TR. On your panos, are you setting the camera to portrait when you shoot the slices? If not, try it. More slices, but a much bigger stitched image.
I wish I could break away. At the beach with grandkids. Clear and frosty out right now.
Thanks, WS. I assume you're looking at the "
Appendix" with the off-site links to the full-size versions of the panos (and not just the thumbnails)? But yeah, most/all of these are shot landscape orientation. Some of them are shot that way because they're a quick-and-dirty
hand-held series just intended to show the bigger view that a single frame can't. I do frequently shoot panos in portrait orientation for a more serious "real" pano (on a tripod) -- especially when I do a 360°, as featured in lots of my previous trip reports. Such as this one:
Jordan Basin over Lundy Cyn, from this
October 2012 Trip Report and this one:
Beverly Beach S.P. (pan up into the trees!) from this
September 2012 TR...and (
I think) this one from a
March 2013 TR:
Poker Jim Ridge & Yellow Sea (these 360° panos are very large -- take a while to load). I'm more likely to use portrait when I want to include the close foreground.
Processing a 36-shot series into a pano (sometimes after reducing 108 shots into 36 if HDR) is when I'm glad I have a hot-rod desktop PC (quad-core i7, so 8 logical processors, running at 4 GHz with 32 GB of RAM) -- both the HDR and pano software
make use of all 8 processors to split the job. I would sometimes process big-job panos on my old laptop (dual-core,
non-hyperthreaded) while "out there" and it could take several minutes...!
Smokecreek1 said:
Have fun, got your kitty litter ready too-just in case
! Like the idea of the bottle of that type of emergency fluid to carry along-might have to add it to my kit! Mark , it sure is cold out in this part of the world right now, saying it will be the coldest day of the year so far. Hope your wave is working good. Me I'm putting my run off until after the first, just to cold out there for these old bones
!
Smoke
Thanks, Smoke. Kitty litter: Good idea -- I'll throw that in. I have no Kitty anymore (R.I.P this past summer), but I still do have some of her "stuff" -- such as a partial bag of kitty litter.
craig333 said:
Have fun. The cold might make that crossing much easier. Wish I could go.
Thanks, Craig. It was pretty cold last time I tried the crossing, too. But I don't think I'll bother this time. It's a very cool geothermal spot with multiple pools (one of which is get-in-able, if you don't mind hot-springs mites...), but not this time.
