And while Joe and I were down at Big Sur we came across a place where they are (apparently) rehabilitating California Condors and preparing to insert them back into the Ventana wilderness:
I did some googling on the condors, and indeed there's been an active condor reintroduction program on the Big Sur coast at least since 2006. Google "condors big sur" and get quite a few links to sites and videos, awesome stuff.
Amusing side note: in the first line google asks me "Did you mean "condos at Big Sur?" Jejeje™
Amusing side note: in the first line google asks me "Did you mean "condos at Big Sur?" Jejeje™
Funny, when I googled, it said "Did you mean big condoms, sir?" Bwaahahaaaa. :P
Great photos, guys! I was REALLY tempted to jump on a plane when I heard bear was going down there. Just not good timing for me. Looks like good times were had by all. Thanks for sharing.
Here are some more shots from the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I was very surprised at how many shots "worked" -- the lightng, glass, and lack of reflections were all far better than I've experenced previously. I still had to go to ISO 400 (at least) for almost all the shots, which (on my camera) is quite noisy, so most of these have had a touch of noise-reduction applied. All of these are hand-held, shutter-priority mode.
No noise reduction needed on mine. Mine's shot with the 20D, minimally processed. Yours is with one of your several Powershots I believe, though I don't know which one. I used the comm f/2.8 Canon Macro lens, for what that's worth...
Well, that's why I have a PO Box as contact point -- anybody tries anything "funny" with that and I'll have the FBI on my side. But I took it out anyway ...
I thought I did pretty good getting all that info into the puny number of bytes Canon allocates that field.
What was everyone using for inside the aquarium? Lens/settings/etc. The one time I went to an aquarium the shots turned out like poop.
I started out with 50mm f/1.8 at ISO 1600 and realized that was faster than I needed, amazingly. Wanted to get in closer to the Jellies so went with 60mm macro, f/2.8, ISO 800, shutter speed around 1/250 to 1/320. There WAS motion to be stopped, of course, plus stability issues as no tripod, so that worked for me. I sort of wish I'd gone to ISO 400 but to be honest I wasn't expecting much from the jellyfish images; I was pleasantly surprised. The "fish tanks" for the most part were a lot darker and there were issues there.
