40D -- live view, and a good story.

Airedrifter

This past weekend my wife took one of her friends on a climbing trip to Seneca Rocks WVA.

My son, Mack --




and I set up base camp and waited for the ladies to climb.



(Note Seneca Rocks in the background. Taken with an effective 16mm)

I don't have a long lens but put the 70/200 and a 1.4 ext on the 40D and set it on the tripod with live view and the magnification engaged. Mack and I watched until we saw Carol's unmistakeable orange jacket and white helmet on the summitt.




Mack was quite thrilled to see his Mom on "TV" on the back of the camera.

This is the photo taken with the effective 450mm (or so).




Here are a couple that the ladies took of each other on the summitt.



My wife, Carol, and...

Terry Weifenbach, the noted Fine Art photographer!




What a great lady. After the trip she looked at my Keeper Gallery. Her comment was, "you know what you're doing." I guess that was praise enough. I guess the photo of Carol is now worth something?

Sawyer

PineapplePhoto

Good shots.

I think you got dust bunnies though... clean your camera's sensor.

BBiggs

That was a neat story! Thanks for sharing it! They really were high up there. Did your wife get any shots when she got to the top?

sirsloop

cool.... just try to set that 10-22 on 22 when you are shooting people so they don't look all distorted on the edges

Airedrifter

Thanks
They didn't take any summitt view photos. I've cleaned the dust bunnies.

The 10mm photo was a snapshot to juxtipose the different views.

Here's one of them that turned out nice. On their hike in...

Gallery at:

http://mikesawyer.smugmug.com/gallery/3694333/3/211785484