185. Tall - December 25-31, 1016
Jerry-
Good morning,
I decided to go with one of the local water towers in nearby Golden Valley. This time I chose the Nikon D750 with my widest lens, a 20mm f3.5 Nikkor. The exposure was 1/1600 @ F16 with an ISO of 400. I did crop a bit so it was kind of silly to use the 20mm, the 24mm end of my 24-70 would have been fine as well as the 16mm end of my 16-50 for the Sony A6300.
Carrying the big camera made me realize how much I like the compact 6300, I just have to refrain from getting too much stuff for the Sony system and keep it simple. For the 750 I have a photo backpack that can hold the camera with 24-70 attached, the 80-400 on one side, the 105 micro and 20 on the other. There is space for a flash and some other accessories like a small tripod but it becomes a beast. The 6300 with 16-50 and 55-200 is pretty useful. Remember when a compact camera was something like a Rollei 35!?
Here's a good quote:
"He who would travel happily must travel light."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Good morning,
I decided to go with one of the local water towers in nearby Golden Valley. This time I chose the Nikon D750 with my widest lens, a 20mm f3.5 Nikkor. The exposure was 1/1600 @ F16 with an ISO of 400. I did crop a bit so it was kind of silly to use the 20mm, the 24mm end of my 24-70 would have been fine as well as the 16mm end of my 16-50 for the Sony A6300.
Carrying the big camera made me realize how much I like the compact 6300, I just have to refrain from getting too much stuff for the Sony system and keep it simple. For the 750 I have a photo backpack that can hold the camera with 24-70 attached, the 80-400 on one side, the 105 micro and 20 on the other. There is space for a flash and some other accessories like a small tripod but it becomes a beast. The 6300 with 16-50 and 55-200 is pretty useful. Remember when a compact camera was something like a Rollei 35!?
Here's a good quote:
"He who would travel happily must travel light."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Byron-
In my current location I am surrounded by tall trees. This photo shows a tall tree with an unusually cloudy sky in the background. I enjoy the perspective of this photo. When I look at it it seems like the camera was about 5 ft off the ground. In reality the camera was 6 - 8 inches off the ground.
ISO 100, 3mm, f2.8, 1/1008 sec
In my current location I am surrounded by tall trees. This photo shows a tall tree with an unusually cloudy sky in the background. I enjoy the perspective of this photo. When I look at it it seems like the camera was about 5 ft off the ground. In reality the camera was 6 - 8 inches off the ground.
ISO 100, 3mm, f2.8, 1/1008 sec
Kevin-
Michelle loves to dream that she is taller than I am. Which is ridiculous of course, as she is 5’6” while I list myself at 5’9” (69”, rounding up from my actual height of 68.5") This makes my height just an inch or so shorter than the average American adult male, which is 69.7”. Though I admit it does make me pretty short compared to all of the tall people with Scandinavian ancestry who are the backbone of the Minnesota population. Drat!
So when the WPOTM theme of “Tall" was introduced I figured it was time for a self portrait, but one in which I would be taller than any other Minnesotan, or any other man in history.
Grabbing the tallest ladder we have in the garage, I claimed to the highest "safe to stand on" step. It was 68.5 inches off the ground, which doubled my height. Then I placed my Nikon on my tripod, with the legs almost flat and the center post in a horizontal position so the camera was almost touching the ground. Then I mounted the camera, climbed the ladder and began enjoying the rising sun from my new tall height as I triggered the shutter remotely.
Nikon D4s, mounted on a Manfrotto CarbonOne 440 tripod with an Acratech GP ballhead, 14-24mm f/2.8 Nikkor lens set to 14mm, ISO 100, f/11 at 1/40th of a second.
So here is the sun, striking my face, before it even illuminates the lower part of the ladder. And there is my shadow in the background on our house. With my head 11’5” off the ground there isn’t an NBA player in the world who could block my shots. Of course standing on a ladder means I can’t move, and one bump from an opposing player would send me tumbling to the ground. So this is a theory I will not test.
Michelle loves to dream that she is taller than I am. Which is ridiculous of course, as she is 5’6” while I list myself at 5’9” (69”, rounding up from my actual height of 68.5") This makes my height just an inch or so shorter than the average American adult male, which is 69.7”. Though I admit it does make me pretty short compared to all of the tall people with Scandinavian ancestry who are the backbone of the Minnesota population. Drat!
So when the WPOTM theme of “Tall" was introduced I figured it was time for a self portrait, but one in which I would be taller than any other Minnesotan, or any other man in history.
Grabbing the tallest ladder we have in the garage, I claimed to the highest "safe to stand on" step. It was 68.5 inches off the ground, which doubled my height. Then I placed my Nikon on my tripod, with the legs almost flat and the center post in a horizontal position so the camera was almost touching the ground. Then I mounted the camera, climbed the ladder and began enjoying the rising sun from my new tall height as I triggered the shutter remotely.
Nikon D4s, mounted on a Manfrotto CarbonOne 440 tripod with an Acratech GP ballhead, 14-24mm f/2.8 Nikkor lens set to 14mm, ISO 100, f/11 at 1/40th of a second.
So here is the sun, striking my face, before it even illuminates the lower part of the ladder. And there is my shadow in the background on our house. With my head 11’5” off the ground there isn’t an NBA player in the world who could block my shots. Of course standing on a ladder means I can’t move, and one bump from an opposing player would send me tumbling to the ground. So this is a theory I will not test.
Paul-
Red: “That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his…” [Line spoken by Morgan Freeman’s character in the movie Shawshank Redemption.]
Josephine Marcus: “Interesting little scene. I wonder who that tall drink of water is.” [Line spoken by Dana Delany’s character in the movie Tombstone.]
Ricky: “I'm a tall drink of water, don't want to wrinkle anything.” [Line spoken by Vince Vaughn’s character in the movie Made.]
Short Thug: “Whoa! Somebody get me a glass! 'Cuz I just found me a tall drink of water.” [Line spoken by v/o talent Nathan Greno or possibly Byron Howard in the movie Tangled.]
As far as I can recall, this is the first time in four years I’ve shot my WPOTM submission the day before it was due. There’s so much going on presently, a bunch of stuff I need to get done before the clock strikes midnight on Saturday, and I just had to shoehorn this in between numbers 16 and 18 on my To-Do List. I hope it doesn’t look like that’s exactly what I did. I took a number of shots at different DOF and augmenting a flashlight (see below) with the camera’s flash set at about 1.5. I was okay with two or three shots. But, for kicks and grins (brace yourself, Kevin), I dropped out of RAW and took one or two shots in HDR mode. You can guess the rest.
The glass is 8 ¾” tall and 3 ¼” in diameter. That’s .31 gallons which, personally, I think qualifies as a tall drink of water.
Not so much a tall order: Nikon D5200 in Aperture mode; HDR set at Normal; 18-55mm lens set at 30mm; ISO 1000; 1 sec. at f/19; -1 ½ EV; Auto WB; 27-point metering with specific weight on the ice in the glass. The light source was a large flashlight placed beneath the platform the glass rested on and pointed toward the back and tilted up about 70°.
Addendum--Usage notes and partial etymology of “Tall glass [or drink] of water.”
Source: Wiktionary, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/long_drink_of_water\
Connotations vary between uses and over time: may or may not suggest slender, may be associated with men or with women, may be derogatory, complimentary, or neutral. Early uses suggest mildly derogatory and humorous sense, meaning “tall and thin”, as in gangly or lanky. More recent American usage (2000s) often suggests a positive term, often gendered, as attractive men or attractive women.
Here is one reference to consider:
1) “drink of water long drink of water” in Dictionary of the Scots Language, Scottish Language Dictionaries, Edinburgh", drink, lang: The life and recollections of Doctor Duguid of Kilwinning, John Service, 1887, p. 103: “Stair had grown up into a great lang drink, and would faukled, as Robin Cummell said, if he fell.”
Red: “That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his…” [Line spoken by Morgan Freeman’s character in the movie Shawshank Redemption.]
Josephine Marcus: “Interesting little scene. I wonder who that tall drink of water is.” [Line spoken by Dana Delany’s character in the movie Tombstone.]
Ricky: “I'm a tall drink of water, don't want to wrinkle anything.” [Line spoken by Vince Vaughn’s character in the movie Made.]
Short Thug: “Whoa! Somebody get me a glass! 'Cuz I just found me a tall drink of water.” [Line spoken by v/o talent Nathan Greno or possibly Byron Howard in the movie Tangled.]
As far as I can recall, this is the first time in four years I’ve shot my WPOTM submission the day before it was due. There’s so much going on presently, a bunch of stuff I need to get done before the clock strikes midnight on Saturday, and I just had to shoehorn this in between numbers 16 and 18 on my To-Do List. I hope it doesn’t look like that’s exactly what I did. I took a number of shots at different DOF and augmenting a flashlight (see below) with the camera’s flash set at about 1.5. I was okay with two or three shots. But, for kicks and grins (brace yourself, Kevin), I dropped out of RAW and took one or two shots in HDR mode. You can guess the rest.
The glass is 8 ¾” tall and 3 ¼” in diameter. That’s .31 gallons which, personally, I think qualifies as a tall drink of water.
Not so much a tall order: Nikon D5200 in Aperture mode; HDR set at Normal; 18-55mm lens set at 30mm; ISO 1000; 1 sec. at f/19; -1 ½ EV; Auto WB; 27-point metering with specific weight on the ice in the glass. The light source was a large flashlight placed beneath the platform the glass rested on and pointed toward the back and tilted up about 70°.
Addendum--Usage notes and partial etymology of “Tall glass [or drink] of water.”
Source: Wiktionary, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/long_drink_of_water\
Connotations vary between uses and over time: may or may not suggest slender, may be associated with men or with women, may be derogatory, complimentary, or neutral. Early uses suggest mildly derogatory and humorous sense, meaning “tall and thin”, as in gangly or lanky. More recent American usage (2000s) often suggests a positive term, often gendered, as attractive men or attractive women.
Here is one reference to consider:
1) “drink of water long drink of water” in Dictionary of the Scots Language, Scottish Language Dictionaries, Edinburgh", drink, lang: The life and recollections of Doctor Duguid of Kilwinning, John Service, 1887, p. 103: “Stair had grown up into a great lang drink, and would faukled, as Robin Cummell said, if he fell.”