Hey, we thought of you when we came up Pinchot - we stopped at the same place we chatted in '09 and took a panorama of Lake Marjorie.
Yeah I did also! I noticed the same spot and was thinking that is where we were talking.
have you ever swapped lenses and compared the results?
Actually no because I have no other lenses lol. Since it set me back 5000 to buy my starting gear I have not got anything else yet.
I did notice your use of flash which helps allot to balance lighting in bright portrait situations but I also took so few images of anyone else, I think allot can be learned with portrait photography but I have never had the chance to practice it at all.
I still have no flash though also because that is going to cost me another few hundred dollars for one.
I also mostly shoot in AF and I use the auto setting with options that allow quick changes to the aperture and shutter speed. I also use landscape mode for more proper blue and green balances.
This year I did not use my polarizer once, I stopped using it because of too many unbalanced skies that I could not correct and then I just never put it on, turned out to be dead weight.
I loved Iva Bell myself even coming from the showers at Reds Meadow, I never got into the pools up high with the nice views but my favorite pool had a nice gravel bottom that was just deep enough to sit on the bottom and lean against a rock being neck deep in the water, the pool was shaded by trees all day long and surrounded by wild flowers. When I was in there I thought to myself "life is always good in the Sierra but sometimes it's better" =P
I saw the pics where you said Claire had passed out due to dehydration, I almost passed out last year from that also, it's a problem in the mountains for sure!
When I started at Hetch Hetchy it was 100F and I almost had heat stroke on day one!
