The Yosemite 2012 Photowalk

A group of Google+ photo enthusiasts met in Yosemite on January 1st, 2012, to celebrate the New Year and make photos. Here's some clips (not always in order) of that Photowalk).

Here's the clips:

00:56 Thomas Hawk showing us his 8mm fisheye lens. He was shooting the roots of a giant sequoia redwood tree.
01:53 Trey Ratcliff goes "off trail" to make a photo of two fallen logs and we talk about how he "sees" in 3D, thanks to playing Quake.
He also shows how he shoots in HDR, with seven images. Later he talks about the importance of putting something in the photo to show a sense of scale.
05:56 Thomas Hawk uses his 8mm fisheye to make weird images of me. By shooting my face literally a few inches away from his lens it gives a distorted view.
07:13 Tony Payne, who works for Google, says Happy New Year, before Thomas Hawk shows us his images that he made on New Year's morning at Glacier Point. Then Scott Jarvie talks about his images and the importance of getting up early in the morning to catch the best light.
10:09: Scott Kublin and Trey Ratcliff have a fun conversation about SEO (Scott helped Trey get better rankings on his website). This was while we were shooting at the Mariposa Grove in Yosemite. Later Dustin Best, who works for Smugmug (great photosharing service) explained how he got his job there.
17:01 Karen Hutton, who does voiceover (her voice is heard in Denver Airport's trains, in Las Vegas' elevators, jokes around with Trey (her voice is in Trey's iPad app). Later Thomas Hawk comes into the shot at 21:00 and talks about when you need a model release.
23:57 Scott Jarvie talks about wedding photography. Later Trey Ratcliff shows up and directs Kimberly Shoemaker who plays the group's model.
28:40 Kimberly Shoemaker models at Glacier Point on New Year's morning as Thomas Hawk shoots her along with Scott Jarvie.
34:07 Tony Payne shows me his Sony SLT camera, which Trey Ratcliff says is the future of photography and explains that there's a world coming where the DSLR is going to be old news soon at 35:26. This is an interesting discussion with Trey that goes into how people see HDR and why some people hate that technique.

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[bestmochalatte]

I'm curious, what mic setup did you use to shoot this?

[Robert Scoble]

I just used a Canon Vixia MF32 camcorder with a wide angle adapter, and the accessory microphone Canon makes for it, along with a Bogen monopod.

[szabiakanich]

Also I could listen to Trey talking ALL DAY. The last 10 minutes of the video were just great to listen to. Such a deep knowledge and understanding of how things work. Trey is truly a visionary, not just a photographer.

[MomoTheBellyDancer]

I love my horseless buggy.

[Elliot Grove]

We need to get you to London to do a talk at Raindance

[Kevin Ryan]

Ha, he bought a d D800, last dslr hes going to buy my ass

[jlalonde1000]

dlsr will not go away the mirror is not why the camera is so big look a minolta in the 50 half the size with a huge mirror

[v3Lost42]

Fat fuq

[3waver]

As soon as I heard you say FOV, I knew you were a Quake player. Best FPS ever :)

<--- Clan Dog Pound

[coleplacemb]

Hmm... Yosemite on Dec. 31/Jan. 1 and no snow?

[masticina]

I like my SLT

Sure its maybe not as great in high ISO compared to some other models but yeah quick, small, it works.