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Iv been withdrawing from nicotine lately. Quit smoking again. So now I have been pretty well motivated to do things. This weekend I plan on going on a road trip to 2 ghost towns here in Kansas. Mildred and Neosho Falls.
 
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Punk said:
Ahhhhh too bad you didn't capture the whole lightning but it looks very good!!
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I know. It was a very active night as well. The reason I had tilted the camera up more was for 2 reasons. I wanted to eliminate the foreground, because I was actually at full zoom on my 55-200mm lens it was quite a distance from where I was. And because there seemed to be alot of action going on in the clouds themselves that I was trying to capture like I was able to with this shot granted its not a very good shot:



This picture was using a 30 second shutter with my 18-55mm lens zoomed. I think maybe it was just out of focus, but it seems very noisy as well.

The other shot I posted was 84.5 seconds with me holding the shutter down the whole time which is why Im surprised there isnt really any blur in it. I need to get a remote for this, but I never really plan on lightning photography it just so happened that that night was extremely active.
 
WRXGuy1 said:
Some photos from Niagara Falls:

Canada from Niagara Falls by Geoff Johnson., on Flickr

Niagara Falls from the Boat by Geoff Johnson., on Flickr
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Loved Niagara falls WRXGuy. Had our 30 anniversary there. Went there for the weekend. Had been in the Casino on the Canadian side for about 10 minutes and hit the slot machine for $800.00 . Told the wife lets go now. Not spending here.

By the way. Just celebrated our 45th anniversary. Planning a Cruise or trip abroad. Maybe next year. still shopping.
 
G80FTW said:
I need to get a remote for this, but I never really plan on lightning photography it just so happened that that night was extremely active.
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Gonna have to be a wired one since the D3100 doesn't support the infra red remotes. ;)
 
For lighting the wired ones are what you want anyways. As some of the wireless ones can have a delay. Plus it allows you to lock in the shutter. Which means you can put it on say a 2sec shutter speed with continues shooting on and just let it go. Thats how I got my famous lighting shot. It's all about luck and a little bit of good timing.
 
I don't like my wireless much either. I wish I wouldn't have sold my wired one with the last body I sold. I will probably pick one up soon. They are cheap unless you want one with a timer.
 
Punk said:
I actually like this one a lot.
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I was ecstatic myself when I looked at the picture on the camera. Even on the screen on the camera though, I could tell it did not turn out as good as it could have. Wasnt until I brought up on the computer that I saw all the noise in it. While I dont have the RAW file anymore, I could try some noise reduction on the JPEG. Not sure it will help much though.

Heres all the "enhancing" I could do to it. If anyone wants to give it a shot, go for it.


And heres some pictures I took on my road trip across southeast Kansas. Through 2 towns Mildred and Neosho Falls. Both abandoned towns. Mildred has nothing but a small store left, I actually didnt even know there were any houses in town because the houses were so covered in trees you really have to look close through the trees to see whats left of the houses that were there. The only sight other than that worth seeing is the old cement factory:


A house right outside of the town on Mildred. Like all the houses, just left. Though there is a nice garage right by this house so I assume the property is still maintained and used frequently:

Another collapsed house outside of Mildred:




Neosho Falls was by far more interesting. And despite having a bigger population than Mildred (which has a population of 37) of somewhere around 100, I didnt really see anyone around the town. In Mildred there were actually quite a few people, and I even went into the one store they had there. But this is some of whats left in Neosho Falls after its flood and economic problems:

The most interesting and biggest building in the town I think, this was the high school which closed in 1961:


The falls:


My postcard I made haha:


I didnt take alot of pictures, but heres one I took with my phone of what the town looks like driving through:


The town itself is very difficult to find, as its all gravel roads and no signs leading to it.

My car outside of the entrance to Neosho Falls:
 
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Punk said:
Oh you deleted the RAW? I always keep them, hence why I bought a 1 TO internal drive :)
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They're handy to keep. For example, I have to do a school project about my photography which I am going to start work on today. I need to show my editing - so I simply load the RAWs back into Lightroom and voila! :)

It's also sometimes quite nice and going back and reprocessing your older photos. For example, some of my favourite shots I took when I first got my Nikon I have reprocessed using Lightroom skills I have learned since I originally processed those photos and the results are much better! https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonbrown2013/sets/72157638801310985/
 
G80FTW said:
Yea but it would take me too long to organize them and the space i would need... i usually keep them on my camera for a while but i stopped doing that too.
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What extra time would it take? Just put them in the same folder as the final photos you export, in a subfolder called RAW or something. If you don't have space, buy a new drive, you should really keep them. If anything, only keep RAW's and if you need a JPG open it and export it.
 
WRXGuy1 said:
What extra time would it take? Just put them in the same folder as the final photos you export, in a subfolder called RAW or something. If you don't have space, buy a new drive, you should really keep them. If anything, only keep RAW's and if you need a JPG open it and export it.
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If space is the problem buy an aditional hd... Trust us on this, any photographer would tell you that. :)
 
G80FTW said:
Yea but it would take me too long to organize them and the space i would need... i usually keep them on my camera for a while but i stopped doing that too.
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When I process my photos I cut them off the CF card and organize them right away. My photos are archived by year, month, and event. So it would look like:

2014>02>2-14-14 [Event Name]
 
voyagerfan99 said:
When I process my photos I cut them off the CF card and organize them right away. My photos are archived by year, month, and event. So it would look like:

2014>02>2-14-14 [Event Name]
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I do that too, seems to be working for me for quite a long time now. Except if I ever take my camera with me and just take a couple of pics, like not an actual event or planned shoot, then I just leave those loose photos on the root 2014>Month folder without an event subfolder.
 
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