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Qranc Offline Buy and Sell: On p.1 #1 · Nite skies Haven't really delved into night photography so while I was in some relatively remote areas of central BC last week I did some playin around. One to explore the D70 at 1600 and another was night shooting. This was a nite shot of one of my favorite lakes. Blue ribbon Kamloops rainbow trout up to 10lb. It was one of the venues for the world fly fishing competition when we had it here in BC Canada a few years ago. New territory for me so armed with an LED flashlight, stop watch and the widest lens I had I just started timing the exposure. This one was about 8 minutes. It's pitch black out except stars. Nearest town is half an hour away at 60 miles an hour that sports a gas station and a grocery store. All of 15,000 residents that work at the mine near by or forestry. The noise is accentuated by my sharpening by 20% which was pointless for this shot to begin with but didn't feel like redoing it. Other wise I didn't mind the noise at all. Shot at about 12:30 am or so. This was shot over another lake that was also a venue for the fly fishing worlds. About 40 minutes south of the city of kamloops. Kamloops trout to 7lb. Caught the tail end of a sedge hatch on this lake. I didn't bother going out on the lake till dusk and tied on some dry patterns I testing out. What a blast. This lake has a wonderful sedge hatch with some big bombers hatching in huge numbers in July. Catch it at the right time and a dry won't survive half an hour before it's turned to rags. Strip just the right way and you have a fish on every other cast. This shot wasn't really the lake but the pattern in the breaking cloud was interesting. Edited on Sep 08, 2005 at 07:12 PM Sep 08, 2005 at 05:59 AM

Qranc Offline Buy and Sell: On p.1 #2 · Nite skies Here's a shot of the wondeful little sedges hatching at Roche lake this time of year. Irresistable to the trout of this lake. Seen guys trolling all day in brutal windy conditions without as much as a bend of the rod and we go out for an hour at dusk and have a blast watching them snap up the dries I tied up the night before. My brother in law had a couple 19 inch and some 18's. I didn't fair as well but then, testing new patterns or ideas can be a fruitless job hehe. Edited on Sep 08, 2005 at 07:12 PM Sep 08, 2005 at 06:08 AM

jmcfadden Online Image Upload: On p.1 #3 · Nite skies neat shots and esp the story of the flies and the fishing. I gotta get back to Canada. Me and my dad were on the French River chain a few years back and I will never forget it J Edited on Sep 08, 2005 at 07:12 PM Sep 08, 2005 at 06:16 AM

Qranc Offline Buy and Sell: On p.1 #4 · Nite skies Currently in British Columbia, particularly central BC we have an epidemic on our hands. The Mountain Pine Beetle is destroying our forests. They prefer mature Lodge Pole Pine (80 + years old) and many of the forested areas I used to recreate in have been heavily infected. Forestry services estimate for every single tree infested this year, there will be 8 more next year. A 1 to 8 ratio. Not good. A natural part of our eco system, a decade of mild winters has increased the larval survival rate from it's usual 10% to around 80%. Natural predators are the woodpeckers but there is no way they can keep up. It would require 2 weeks of -40 (celsius) before Christmas to kill off the larvae. After Christmas it makes no difference as the Larvae develope an anti freeze. That is just not going to happen in this region of BC. The red trees are first year infestation. In second year they turn grey or black and are nothing but a fire hazard. They turn red as the beetle prevents water and nutrients flowing to through the tree and it begins to die. It is still harvestable at this stage however many areas being protected park lands, law prevents the harvest. These shots are in Manning Park BC, as you can see some stands look to be about 50% infested. Of course the denser the pine concentration the worse it looks. Having not visited the areas I used to frequent for some years, it was devastating to see the carnage, the level of infestation. I felt a sense of loss. My pictures being poorly thought out do not do it justice. I realize now, how much the region really did mean to me and I was glad to be able to take my sons there and document what had happened as there may be only young forest for many years to come in this region as they grow up. Edited on Sep 08, 2005 at 07:12 PM Sep 08, 2005 at 06:29 AM

Qranc Offline Buy and Sell: On p.1 #5 · Nite skies A midrange priced lens that does some fine work. On this trip I got reaquanted with my 24-135 Tamron SP. Shot at 1600. Just a random shot when hiking round the back side of another lake of many I had stopped at. As shot, no sharpening or anything of that sort. I pretty much shot the entire trip at 1600 for no other reason than to push the envelope of the D70 and high ISO. I have to say, for whatever the beef is on this camera and "noise", I got some shots I have been happy with, far more so than I ever had and the grain of high ISO film. Thanks for looking and putting up with my rantings lol ... thats if you have gotten this far into it. - Rene Hahn Edited on Sep 08, 2005 at 07:12 PM Sep 08, 2005 at 06:43 AM

Qranc Offline Buy and Sell: On p.1 #6 · Nite skies Thank you J. If you are ever making your way out to BC you know you can give me a call!! Rene Edited on Sep 08, 2005 at 07:12 PM Sep 08, 2005 at 06:52 AM

Jack OBrien Offline Image Upload: Off p.1 #7 · Nite skies Thanks for posting these Rene. I really enjoyed the pictures, and appreciated the commentary as well. My judgement of high iso digital has always been against film, and I think a lot of digital shooters have never shot film, and hence complain of noise. Of course, that's just my opinion It's amazing to me that digital high ISO images seem to print much better than they look on screen too. The D70 is certainly a very capable camera. As much as a know about fishing **NOT**, my son is an avid trout fisherman. He would certainly love to give this lake a run through! Jack Edited on Sep 08, 2005 at 07:12 PM Sep 08, 2005 at 11:59 AM

lxdesign Online Image Upload: On p.1 #8 · Nite skies Love the images... would love to get out west sometime. Living in Southerrn Ontario sometimes gets a little boring, and there is so much to see across Canada. I was supposed to be going up to Iqaluit, Nunavut (Baffin island) for work, but it didn't happen. Edited on Sep 08, 2005 at 07:12 PM Sep 08, 2005 at 12:44 PM

Qranc Offline Buy and Sell: On p.1 #9 · Nite skies Baffin Island would be one cool place to visit!! Yes there is so much to see in Canada and so few of us actually travel it. I have seen more of the US than I have of Canada. NWT, Yukon etc. and they are relatively close. Driving distance to some fantastic landscapes. When the boys get older I certainly plan on some "epic" trips. Thanks for the comments guys, I appreciate the feedback. My judgement of high iso digital has always been against film, Very much what I was thinking Jack! All this quacking I have read about noise over the last few months, I have been very happy with the benefits of the gear I do have (I sorely do miss the feel and speed of a pro body though, especially the vf but we will remedy that soon enough hehe) and often maybe we just tend to lose sight of the gains. What do I care if one camera makes slightly less noisy images than another (well thats a personal statement)? When I can learn to deal with it and forget having to carry several rolls of different iso film. Change in mid roll then try to extract the leader of a half exposed rewound roll ugh! btw that kodak tongue thing rarely ever works! I use double sided tape on it and it works every time. Do like the labs do. I take the approach that I will work with the limitations presented, no differently than when shooting film. I find, being new to DSLR mind you, I have very little to complain about because most of the time the limitation had been me and not the gear. Sep 08, 2005 at 07:12 PM

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