Unofficial Grand Teton /backpacking photography techniques/

[olegmoiseyenko]

Folks,

<br>

<br>Please don't hesitate take a look at these pictures over here:

<br><a HREF=" http://www.pbase.com/omoses/gteton_2004">Unofficial

Grand Teton</a>

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<br>All these pictures were taken during my last trip to Grand

Teton, Wyoming, Sep 03-12, 2004. I call it "unofficial" because of

our root, which was lying out of common, official trails and went

along park's western boundary, from north to south. During this week

we were exposed to the real wildness and met our first man on the

forth day only. In other words, it was completely autonomous. During

these days we done about 50 miles (~90 km.) and climbed up to 11,106

ft. (Table Mountain, 3385 m.) altitude and total weight of my

backpacks (with photo equipments) initially was about 60 lb (~27

kg.) Probably, many of you would be interested to know about my

photo equipments, what I've use over there.

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<br>Camera: Nikon D100 + MBD100 grip

<br>Lenses: Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D ED-IF AF-S

<br>Filters: Nikon 77mm Circular Polarizer II & UV (Ultra Violet)

<br>

<br>Support system: Gitzo 1588 monopod, MBD100L plate & B2-Pro LAS

clamp from Really Right Stuff

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<br>Camera bag: LowePro TopLoader 75

<br>Power source: 6x4 AA Energizer batteries (lithium)

<br>Media: 1GB SunDisk CF (80x WA)

<br>30 GB digital wallet (made in China and pretty cheap one)

<br>

<br>The cold nights all these equipments join me at my sleeping bag.

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<br>My postprocessing in a nutshell: NEF-->TIFF(16-bit) conversion,

cropping, expose & color corrections, dust & artefacts cleaning,

resizong & sharping.

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<br>And finally, here you're some statistics about pictures, what I

made:

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<br>427- number of pictures, total

<br>99 - "good" quality

<br>53 - "very good" (you can see them by URL link above)

<br>03 - "excellent" (overall quality, expose, composition, etc.)

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<br>Kind regards,

<br>Oleg (aka oMoses)

<br><a href="http://www.pbase.com/omoses">oMoses online portfolio</a>

<br>Nikon D100 + MB-D100

<br>Nikkor 50mm/f1.4D

<br>Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D ED-IF</h5>

[watermelon]

Try a hundred miles in similar amount of time to 6600m (-20c) with similar wieght rucksack.... always fun. Nice photos tho!

[scott_g2]

Another good trip! I also liked your Alaska portfolio. I am not a Nikon shooter but was

curious as to why you elected to take the D100's battery pack on both your Teton and

Alaska trips. Rather than less bulk/weight of additional batteries.

 

Also, if you used the Lowe chest harness to carry the TopLoad? If so, would you do that

again? Or would you opt of a different method?

 

Keep the great work!

 

Scott