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Hummm, I may need to load Lightroom on the laptop for this one as I will be mid-Montana trip for this one and will be in beautiful river central by then.

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So, suggestions on a non-insane telephoto lens to rent for the trip? Looking at the 70-300L, with the crop body I’m hoping that 300 will be the sweet spot between size and reach. I have my 55-250, but something tells me that for the quality wildlife photos I’m hoping for, I may need a some ‘red’ on the end of the camera.

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I’ve got titanium in me (the TSA will love me long time).

Sailed through TSA security after the pin was put in my shoulder from my collarbone break. Unless you’re nearing on robocop levels of metal, you shouldn’t get bothered too much.

Depends on the airport. Some are pretty decent (they’re also the ones that contract differently, like my hometown one), while others are fully clothed orgies with only a few participants willing (JFK to name one).

I could see JFK being pretty bad, but I’ve gone through DFW and LAX both since the rod went into the shoulder. *knock on wood* for my flight to Bozeman in a month, I’ll be getting there extra early for luggage checking of the bike and such so hope there’s not more delays going through security then.

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What shop in DFW so I know to stay way way way far away from it?

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Here’s a link I found pin pointing a number of the better photo locations in the Grand Tetons area:
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?authuser=0&vps=2&ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=212756499080043029701.00049adae802782c113a6

I have a buddy that has spent a lot of time in the area so I’m going to be picking his brain as well for good locations as well.

Right now my plans are: Saturday arrive in bozeman early afternoon, spending Sat & Sunday night in the Bozeman area, driving down to Yellowstone early Monday, spending Mon & Tues nights in Yellowstone, departing early Wed morning (how early to be determined by sunrise location selections) to Grand Tetons, spending just Wed night down there but most of Thursday as well before driving back up to Bozeman for Fri-Mon morning. I know I won’t get to see it all, but this will be a good primer trip for future trips if so decided.

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I’ve got titanium in me (the TSA will love me long time).

Sailed through TSA security after the pin was put in my shoulder from my collarbone break. Unless you’re nearing on robocop levels of metal, you shouldn’t get bothered too much.

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rav, heal up amigo.

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+1

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+1 … I’m game.

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If this isn’t HDR, I’ll eat my ND filter: http://www.fark.com/comments/7849372/85558790#c85558790

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Thoughts on the processing of this one?

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-uYZDl-mo2BI/Uexn5iEWIVI/AAAAAAAATks/EM26pISd5U4/s820/IMG_0920-Edit.jpg

Had to push a bit further than I typically do for Farktography to bring back some blown out sky vs the building elements in shadow.

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I’ve reworked the barn shot, doing a lot better eliminating the roof line halo. Ended up being caused by the high ‘anti-ghosting’ setting that I had selected when I did the HDR setup. I tend to lean to the realistic when doing most post processing, but do like the ‘vintage 2’ levels-curves setting in Nik HDR Efex seen in the Addison Theatre Centre and the barn shots.

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I certainly tried for entries that had a decent amount of artistic element to the and not just a snapshot of a sign. Not that I had a lot of either to work with. Happy that at least one of mine is ranking high with the voters, though the other two seem to have been less well received. A couple weeks back I tried catering to the “fark voter” with a busty nose art photo during ‘Military Grade’ – and that fell flat compared to my more artistic photos – so who knows what will get voted for one week to the next.

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I’m coming up short on ideas as well. Sure, there’s plenty of ugly blocks of uninteresting strip malls and chain restaurants, but not likely going to result in an interesting photo of any sort. There is one hope though, there’s a newly built dentists office in town that is rather gaudy. Thinking of swinging by there this evening with the new lens and seeing if 15mm is going to be wide enough to capture it in it’s over the top glory. 😆

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Addison Theatre Centre / Addison Confrence Centre

Joe Farmer Recreation Center

Not exactly a civic building, but I like it so I’m posting it. 😉

(not 100% happy with the processing, darned halo on the roof line, may try again tonight)

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