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On Sunday my roommate and I hiked up "The Chief" in Squamish. If you've never been to Squamish, The Chief is this gigantic rockface on the east side of the town. There are rock climbing routes up the face of it however we hiked a trail up the backside.

 

The First 2 photos are 2 different shots of the same section of a stream on the way up.

 

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And this last one is the view from the top looking North/NorthWest. Squamish is the town you can see on the left of the photo. And the tall peak that heads into the clouds on the right side of the photo is Mt. Garibaldi.

 

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enjoy

 

tknohpy was asking what sort of settings I use for the water photos and I thought I'd add this photo of me taking the photos to give an idea of what sorta balancing act/tripod placement goes into that kind of photo

 

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I checked out that camera and I'm not too sure if you can. You need to be able to have control of the aperture and shutter speed for shots like that. If that camera does have some manual options then it shouldn't be a problem. And a tripod is also a must

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Do you mind if I ask what settings you use to get that water effect? I am new to the SLR world and haven't venturd into the manual end of things yet. I love the way that water looks.

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Those water shots are amazing.

 

Is there any way to do something like that with a Sony DSC-H2 or is a SLR required to make the adjustments? I would imagine a tripod is needed as well.

 

An H-2 is very capable of such shots, but you'd need a neutral density filter to slow your shutter speed. Stacking it with a polarizing filter would be a benefit as well.

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Nice shots Brandon. Did you take any shots of the rock face itself? Have you photographed Shannon Falls? The old mining museum in "Sqeemish" was used in a couple of episodes of the X Files.

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I didn't take any of the rockface itself. It was pretty cloudy when we started the hike and then pretty much dark when we finished so hopefully next time I will. And I've only been to the tourist lookout at shannon falls. There is a hike to get to the upper falls which I will be doing in the summer.

 

And those photos were taken at ISO 200, f22, and a 1-3 second shutter speed

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Many of the non-SLR have the ability to run CHDK software which gives you complete control of every setting. I run it bootable from the SD card and am now playing with different exposures, etc.

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Oh, and yes... the shot of you taking a water shot is brilliant. Did you have someone take that shot, or had another camera on a delayed exposure? Either way, it's brilliant.

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