awesome pictures of natural beauty. i am sure you had to put alot of effort and energy into getting where you could take these. must have been thrilling to be there and take the pictures. thanks for sharing.
dakel wrote:
Wondering if you saw/captured alpenglow?
I wish.
This trip included seven iPhone-wielding members of my family ranging from 20 to 75 years of age, so I was satisfied that they indulged me by sometimes waiting while I fumbled with my tripod in the wind even if they weren't keen on pre-dawn starts. We all had a great time, although 17 miles with 4,500 feet of vertical in a day turned out to be a real challenge for some of the twenty-somethings.
whitall wrote:
I wondering what camera, lenses & tripod you hauled up there?
I usually carried just a day pack and three of my four manual-focus lenses:
Sony A7R III (that's a 42 megapixel body)
Loxia 25mm f/2.4
Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar
Voigtlander 50mm f/2 APO-Lanthar
Zeiss 85mm f/4 Tele-Tessar (adapted)
Leofoto LS-254C tripod with the rubber feet replaced by metal claws in anticipation of windy conditions
FLM 36G ball head
FWIW, you can find extensive discussions of lens selections, etc., for Patagonia hiking trips on-line. The default kit seems to be a wide zoom, a normal zoom, a 70-200 zoom, and a tripod that will hold those lenses steady and won't blow over. I just brought what I typically bring to the mountains. I suspect that many people might have wanted something wider.
Edit:
I removed a link to a (sold-out) workshop, per forum rules.
I usually carried just a day pack and three of my four manual-focus lenses:
Sony A7R III (that's a 42 megapixel body)
Loxia 25mm f/2.4
Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar
Voigtlander 50mm f/2 APO-Lanthar
Zeiss 85mm f/4 Tele-Tessar (adapted)
Leofoto LS-254C tripod with the rubber feet replaced by metal claws in anticipation of windy conditions
FLM 36G ball head
FWIW, you can find extensive discussions of lens selections, etc., for Patagonia hiking trips on-line. The default kit seems to be a wide zoom, a normal zoom, a 70-200 zoom, and a tripod that will hold those lenses steady and won't blow over. I just brought what I typically bring to the mountains. I suspect that many people might have wanted something wider.
Good to see another high quality prime guy! Weight cost to a wide zoom. Did you miss a long lens? Sometimes I zoom into features, but too often the atmosphere kills contrast.
whitall wrote:
Did you miss a long lens? Sometimes I zoom into features, but too often the atmosphere kills contrast.
Some times I do wish that I had a longer lens--but usually just something like a ca. 100mm lens in lieu of my wider-than-85mm Tele-Tessar. I've seen some lovely detail shots of mountain peaks, but that's not what I do now.
Frankly, the people I encountered on this trip could hardly avoid capturing memorable images that included breathtaking scenery. (Most of them seemed to carry just their phones and concentrate on selfies.) I did see a few apparently serious photographers with long lenses out looking for wildlife (my sister-in-law made a short iPhone video of a puma that walked by), but anything worked. It just comes down to personal taste.
We were in El Chalten for only five days around Christmas. The weather was nice: windy the first day but then quite benign for the rest of our stay. We also had good luck with the weather in TdP, with only one day of light rain and little wind leading up to New Years Day. Not everyone is so lucky.
Note that the height of the tourist season brings lots of people like my family: according to a local guide, we shared the trail to Base Torre on the last Sunday of the year with perhaps one thousand other lucky people, although the crowd seemed to me to number mere hundreds because we got what for my sister-in-law was an early start. If we go back, my wife and I would prefer to visit around April (to enjoy the fall colors and encounter fewer tourists like us) and spend more time in just one area; I'd vote for El Chalten, but she'd rather return to TdP.
