My first winter backpacking/mountaineering trip in 2 years was sort of cut short by lack of sleep, not feeling well, route finding issues, trail breaking through deep snow, etc. Our total hike ended up being about 8.5 miles rather than the 14+ expected. Overall, it was a great 2 days and a nice weekend trip. Not as planned but better than the alternative of sitting around doing nothing. My philosphy is "any day in the mountains beats a good day doing anything else."
The complete details of the trip can be seen on my blog in the signature below. nothing too exciting, just some musings and some gear talk.
As mundane and cliche as this shot is, it might be the only shot with any technical details worth noting. I built a flash diffuser out of a translucent film canister which simply slides over the pop up flash. Now while I probably use my popup flash in less than 0.5% of all images taken with my SLR/DSLR i find it saves me the weight of carrying an external flash like I used to carry with my film SLRs, and really it's mostly used for fill light or shots like this.
Generally the pop up flash leaves shots looking obviously flashed. But diffusing the light adds depth and reduces shadows.
I set the FEV (Flash Exposure Comp) to -1.0 with the diffuser, and with the light bouncing off the tent the -1.0 seemed to be about perfect.
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