Ice Rink
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Where were you last night at midnight? Tucked up in bed no doubt, well it was a school night. After a near death experience involving dipped lights and a black horse licking road salt, it was off into the frosty moonlight for another life enriching experience.
This is Haytor on Dartmoor at around 2am, on the way back to the car after a few miles wandering solo to favourite locations. If you don't already know, this ice ring is made up of diffracted crystals suspended in the air and it's only the second time I have managed to capture one fully intact on camera. An amazing night. Canon 5Dmk2, Nikon 14-24 f2.8 at 14mm (because the ring was so huge) at f4 for 30secs ISO800. The 5Dmk2 is now the astro camera of choice. After using moderate noise reduction on the sky you can barely tell this image wasnt shot at ISO100 it's so smooth. ISO1600 images looked perfectly workable too.
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This is a superb image. I've never seen anything like this before, a really amazing optical phenomenon and superbly captured over Haytor. Keep up the midnight rambles.
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01, Dec, 2009
Stunning!
Beautiful capture David. I have never seen one of these ice rings before. You're certainly brave wandering around there on your own, I bet it's an eerie feeling.
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01, Dec, 2009
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Many thanks. Its absolutely brilliant photographing in moonlight and as I have said many times before, its the cities we should be afraid of wandering during the early hours, certainly not this place. I covered about four miles in a huge circle that night, round to the back of Hound Tor as well, getting this shot just as I was returning to the car. It felt very good to be alive believe me (not in the escaping murder sense!)
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02, Dec, 2009
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I agree with your comments there is not much in the woods that is going to hurt you compared to the city, however it does get a bit eerie if your torch fails :-)
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02, Dec, 2009
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The only thing you need a torch for is manual focusing your lenses. I purposely switch all torches off to stop attracting attention to myself and just wander around in the moonlight. You would be surprised at how much can be seen inside the viewfinder as well Steve.
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02, Dec, 2009
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Absolutely stunning image David, truly inspirational!
Just out of interest how easy is the 14-24 Nikkor to use on a canon system? I've not really read into it but I'm intrigued to know how you change the aperture with no aperture ring on the lens? Im sure the quality of that glass is superb...
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14, Dec, 2009
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It is surprisingly easy, have a look in the Articles / Reviews section about the adapters where you can see how they work. The aperture is controlled using an external lever that pushes the Nikon aperture pin, very easy to set and control.
Yes, the Nikon glass is absolutely stunning, the quality surpasses all glass in the same focal lengths, except Zeiss prime lenses. Its a killer lens and highly versatile despite the quirks of adapting it over to Canon.
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15, Dec, 2009
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Wow! that article is great, thanks very much. I have been told that Lee are developing a filter holder system for the 14-24 to be used with the x-pro sized Lee filters. When that all comes together I think I'll be changing! Thanks very much for your help, very much appreciated!
Tony
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15, Dec, 2009
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