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How to photograph Antarctica My wife and I will be leaving for Antarctica on Dec. 4. I have a Canon 20D and a Canon Rebel. What are the "tricks" in shooting appropriately - metering, ISO, white balance, program, manual, aperature priority and etc, etc, etc. After viewing the beautiful photos in Better Photos articles, I want to at least know the basics plus more. Many thanks, John Aceti
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Ariel Lepor |
Low ISO, place horizons off-center, custom white-balance for the snow, or use daylight white balance, use small aperture and. You may need to set the camera's exposure up a stop because the snow reflects all the sunlight and you want to properly photograph it. Ariel
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Global warming, there may not be any snow. Don't know how cold whatever part of Antartica you're going to be at gets in the summer, but your batteries don't last long in very cold weather. Take three if you can. Keep them in your inside pockets until you need them. Maybe try those handwarmers you shake up to release heat. Take the month and a half to get away from needing program. If it's mostly snow, stop and a half to two stops is usually needed to correct for overbrightness of snow.
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- Carolyn M. Fletcher  Contact Carolyn M. Fletcher Carolyn M. Fletcher's Gallery |
Check with Wally Orlowsky.. He was there last year.
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- Dennis Flanagan Contact Dennis Flanagan Dennis Flanagan's Gallery |
Take Lithium Batteries. I have a good friend at McMurdo, say hi to Greg when you arrive.
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Robyn Gwilt |
John, the best you could do, is rather let me go in your place - that way if the pix aren't that great, you won't feel so bad!
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Mark Feldstein |
COOl TRIP !!!!! (figuratively and realistically speaking) Remember: Penguins photograph better in black and white, tuxedos or dinner jackets work well. National Geographic publishes a handy pocket-sized book loaded with some pretty handy travel photo tips covering all sorts of situations called (oddly enough) "National Geographic Field Guide" by our ole buddy, Peter K. Burian and Robt, Caputo. For 20 bucks or so, it's worth having with ya. Meanwhile, snow scenes like beaches tend to fool the meter. The best way to meter in snow is to use either a gray card and directly meter off that, lock in your reading (adjust or bracket a bit) or use an incident meter pointed toward your camera position to measure the light falling on the scene. So, a copy spots a guy driving down the road in a Cadillac Eldorado convertible with a bunch of penguins in the back seat. He pulls the guy over. Before the driver can offer an explanation, the cop says..."Look, I want you to take these penguins to the zoo. No arguments." The guy nods and leaves. A few days later, same cop sees the same guy driving with a car full of penguins now wearing sunglasses and pulls him over again. "Hey, I told you to take these penguins to the zoo." The guy looks at him, and says: "I DID take them to the zoo." "AND???" the cop says. The guys says, "And we had such a great time, TODAY we're going to the beach !!!!" Sorry, I couldn't resist.
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Ariel Lepor |
LOL! :)
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W. |
Will you be wading ashore from Zodiacs, or stay on the ship?
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W. |
Back then, I shot 1,600 frames in 2 weeks. On silver-bromide film! Shooting digital you'll need a loooot of storage space. If you get a 'PSD' (Portable Storage Device) to empty your card onto, you will need only 2 good quality flash memory cards. Of which one is the spare. Find PSD's here: http://www.steves-digicams.com/digi_accessories.html
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