Cannon Mountain, Cannonballs, N and S Kinsman, 8/23

[blaze]

Overflowed parking at the OBP/Falling Waters trailhead and at Lafayette Place CG yesterday when we arrived (we got off to a late start), but we still found uncrowded trails on the Cannon/Kinsmans side. I suspect the Franconia peaks were the usual late summer madhouse.

A few shots:

on the Hi-Cannon Trail

Long exposure from N Kinsman

Cannon and Lafayette from S Kinsman

Full gallery

 

[Scubahhh]

Yup. About 30 people on Lafayette at 9:30 Saturday morning, though I didn't see a soul on the Greefleaf Trail and only a few between the hut and the summit. Going north toward Garfield, passed 15-20 southbound ears, most of whom didn't look especially thrilled with the trail, and three guys who were doing a Pemi circuit. 20+ on Garfield.

Cme on, Labor Day!

 

[Billy]

Jonathan, great photos as always.

Two questions:
1) Photo 8. Fascinating...I kept staring at it. I'm used to seeing shallow depth of field from front-to-back, but not from top-to-bottom . Really cool shot. How did you pull that off?

2) Photo 10. How did you manage a 30 second exposure during the day without blowing out the clouds? Was the f25 and ISO 100 enough to do that? Or did you use an ND filter?

Your photographic creativity on "been-there-shot-that" hikes is awesome.

 

[blaze]

Jonathan, great photos as always.

Two questions:
1) Photo 8. Fascinating...I kept staring at it. I'm used to seeing shallow depth of field from front-to-back, but not from top-to-bottom . Really cool shot. How did you pull that off?

2) Photo 10. How did you manage a 30 second exposure during the day without blowing out the clouds? Was the f25 and ISO 100 enough to do that? Or did you use an ND filter?

Your photographic creativity on "been-there-shot-that" hikes is awesome.

Thank you Billy!

(1) built-in "miniature" effect on the camera - creates a strip of in-focus and strips of blur - also punches up the saturation.

(2) 10-stop neutral density filter. mine is an Ebay cheapie... =) search for "10 stop ND" in your filter size.

Jonathan