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Posted By:
Don Maxwell
Date Posted:
Apr 14, 2018
Description:
Thirty seven minutes before sunset the light was just right to illuminate these wires 5.74 nautical miles downstream (098 degrees magnetic) from where Carol and I were having dinner on the patio. The trees are on an island 1.39 nautical miles from us. The shutter clicked while the strobe lights on the tower also happened to be lit. After sunset the strobes are turned off and flashing red lights come on.
Date Taken:
2018-04-13
Place Taken:
The Taj Mahouse, in Shangri-La-di-da On the James, Virginia
Owner:
Don Maxwell
File Name:
Wires-Sunset-6.6sm.jpg - Photo HTML
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Dave Edward - Apr 14,2018
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Good shot Don.We're you doing a manual shot or on time lapse ?
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Don Maxwell - Apr 14,2018
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Dave, you got me interested in the technical details: It was a 2 second time delay shot, with the camera on a tripod. It's a Canon SX 60 HS, a mid-range camera that I like because it has a 65x optical zoom lens. For this shot it was at maximum optical zoom (focal length 132.65 mm), which the camera docs say is equivalent to 1365 mm with a 35 mm SLR lens. ISO 100, f 5.6, 1/250.
In contrast, here's a noon-ish shot from the same location, with the tower centered, but at full wide-angle. The focal length is 3.8 mm. ISO 100, f4, 1/800.
My Mac says that the camera's focal length range is 3.8-132.65 mm. The camera itself is less informative, but it embeds that data in the image files.
If you click on the pictures and then click on the view that the first click opens, they'll open at full SIZE in a new tab or window. But you might then have to save the image to see it full-RESOLUTION. These photos are 4608 x 3456 pixels, or about 16 MP. That's bigger than my Mac's display, so I can't see an entire photo at full resolution without having to scroll around in it.
For example, the two power line towers are visible in the wide angle shot, but only if I view it at full RESOLUTION. I can't pick them out at full SIZE (full screen size). The right (south) tower is about centered over the long, darker-looking island.
The photos have not been sharpened. The slightly greyish blurring near the water is from vapor in the air (which increases the density altitude and limits the usefulness of high-power telescopes).
Wires-WideAngleView
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Don Maxwell - Apr 14,2018
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Here's a detail from the wide shot, showing the two towers. The one on the right is in the original, top, full-zoom photo. The image is at full-resolution, sharpened, and then doubled in size (dimensions). More than you wanted to know. Sorry--I just got curious.
Towers-enh-2x
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