Wisconsin Tacomas and bad financial advice

New to the thread. Hello Wisconsin!

 

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I see you have a winch.
@pearing takes us on a trail where you can use that winch.
Come join us.

 

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Starting with truck related content. Pay no attention to the distortion. I was using a wide angle lens low on a tripod



Took me a bit to figure out what camera settings worked. I had to really crank up the ISO and use a <1 second shutter speed.
These were taken at 2:30 am in Caledonia.

 

The balance of long enough shutter speed for enough light and short enough to avoid star trails is fun. Wide aperture and bumping the iso [I usually rock like, 1600ish] is probably the best bet unless you want to get wild with a tripod head that rotates/moves.

fwiw i shot mine at 16mm [aps-c crop body] at f1.4, 3ish seconds at iso 400ish since it was super bright.

 

I was using my 11-16 f2.8 Nikon mount lens on my Fuji which is also aps-c. I ended up cranking the ISO to 10,000. Usually I limit that to 3200. The AI noise reduction in Lightroom is pretty amazing. At the time I was out longer shutter speeds just made the sky look like watercolors.

 

What flavor Fuji? I have a xh2 that i have been really enjoying.

 

I always seem to buy the red headed step child Fujis. I have the SX-10. I was ready to buy the XT-4 but when I was reading reviews of the SX-10 it had everything I needed for a lower price.
I also have a Fuji X-70 point and shoot I love for street photography/urban landscape.

What really drew me towards Fuji is the quality of the jpegs. I like the simpler workflow of uploading to a iPad and posting out to social media for most of my shots.

 

Mine were shot w/ a Samsung Galaxy S20+5G.
How do you like them apples?

 

Sport has them. My OR doesn't.

Who knows.

 

Tigerton is nice, because there are fun trails for pretty much any level.

This thread is mostly for events. Although, some BS'ing occurs there as well:


https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...ing-lot-parties-and-social-gatherings.621460/

 

Next get together is 6/9 in Tigerton, WI. It's an offroad park, whole lotta fun!

 

Really? That’s disappointing. I wonder if they were less bright because they were so expansive. Not sure if that’s a thing though…if they get “diluted” when they get that wide. I mean, they have to be brighter at times right?

I managed to taken some pics last night of them last night. They were faint, but they covered more than half the sky. The pics I took are deceptive…they’re way too impressive compared to what I actually saw. Phone cameras now seem give you “magic” pictures with 5-10 sec off-hand exposures. A little too magical if you ask me. At least the water color effect @Camerasandcoffee mentioned was pretty strong, so the pics shouldn’t be able to pass as a technically good pic taken by someone putting in a little effort.




I’d like to see some bright aurora at some point. Up near the poles some claim you can hear them, which is pretty trippy.

 

Nice shots guys.

 

Mine look grainy...