Where to shoot in Death Valley

So I'm going down to Death Valley next week. I've got my stockpile of Fuji Velvia 50 ready to rock - but I'm looking for suggestions on sunset and sunrise locations. Any Death Valley vets have some input on where to shoot?
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Bad water for sunrise and Stovepipe Wells Sand Dunes/Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes for sunset.
Badwater, Zabriski Point, Devil Goft Course are better for sun rise because you'll get nice alpenglow on the Paramint range.
Stovepipe well sand dunes can be good for both sunrise and sunset. But I recommend you save it for sunset and go to other places for sunrise.
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How to suggest new tower location in Death Valley

The Death Valley travel season is almost over and this applies mostly to next one, in around 7 months. For some reason T-Mobile and to some degree At&t offers service near Furnace Creek. I am not sure why Verizon offers zero service there.... I mean out of all providers T-Mobile is not the one that comes to mind as the one that should offer service in fringe areas.
Neither does At&t. Its sort of embarassing to me as a Verizon customer with "the largest network" to have zero bars & be forced to use smoke signals.
The main usage of cell phones is to coordinate meeting points over large area and they help a lot in that respect. Any hand held devices are a bit out of range and / or a bit heavy to carry/ not widely adopted by others (hand held CB radio).
How does one suggest where network should be extended? Can this be based on the embarassing factor of others have it and Verizon doesn't?
For these that think this is a "fringe" market, please reazlize that in season DV is filled with people as all campsites are taken including the ones that can handle 1000+ campers. This means 1000's of people are there. I am not sure how many of these are Verizon customers... but I am sure they all are a bit dissapointed by luck of service.
As for tower placement in the valley near Furnace Creek, given the overall flatness of the area a signal could propagate for many miles. All it takes is just one tower.
When I talk above about DV I mean area around Furnace Creek... Through other small villages could get their towers as well

SnowHiker wrote:
The Death Valley travel season is almost over and this applies mostly to next one, in around 7 months. For some reason T-Mobile and to some degree At&t offers service near Furnace Creek. I am not sure why Verizon offers zero service there.... I mean out of all providers T-Mobile is not the one that comes to mind as the one that should offer service in fringe areas.
Neither does At&t. Its sort of embarassing to me as a Verizon customer with "the largest network" to have zero bars & be forced to use smoke signals.
The main usage of cell phones is to coordinate meeting points over large area and they help a lot in that respect. Any hand held devices are a bit out of range and / or a bit heavy to carry/ not widely adopted by others (hand held CB radio).
How does one suggest where network should be extended? Can this be based on the embarassing factor of others have it and Verizon doesn't?
For these that think this is a "fringe" market, please reazlize that in season DV is filled with people as all campsites are taken including the ones that can handle 1000+ campers. This means 1000's of people are there. I am not sure how many of these are Verizon customers... but I am sure they all are a bit dissapointed by luck of service.
As for tower placement in the valley near Furnace Creek, given the overall flatness of the area a signal could propagate for many miles. All it takes is just one tower.
When I talk above about DV I mean area around Furnace Creek... Through other small villages could get their towers as well
Please be assured that our goal is to bring Verizon Wireless coverage to any location where our customers can benefit from it and our Network Team as well as our Legal Team are always exploring the logistics involved in bringing coverage to a new market. It is not possible to bring one tower to a community and provide wireless service without having all the Network and Legal work done ahead of time. Additionally, keep in mind that certain areas may have some exclusive agreements with other wireless companies.
We understand that you would like to see Verizon Wireless coverage in certain areas; please be certain that we want to bring more coverage to more places as well.

Is there a known bug where Blue Screen of Death kills Firefox?

Firefox is running on an XP computer, a BSoD happens, then Firefox hangs on startup. Only solution is to remove and reinstall including personal settings. Is this a known bug?

I have this problem for 3 weeks now.
Blue screen occurs 2/3 times a day, only when FF running (tested with IE : problem disapears).
More blue screens occur when playing a video, but happens without Flash player anyway.
Seems to be a minidump / AppDataLocal Temp... error.
Any idea ?

Shooting mode info?

I have just begun using iPhoto '11 and can't seem to find where the shooting data is found (beyond the basic camera name, aperture etc). I like to know what mode I have shot in (auto, portrait, sports etc).
iPhoto is also not displaying the correct name/size for my lens.
Any ideas?
Thanks so much.

I used Jeffrey's Exif viewer and it says the following
Lens
28.0 - 75.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 43.7 - 117.2 mm)
Canon EF 28-70mm f/2.8L or Sigma 28-70mm f/2.8 EX
Does this help? It's a bit annoying to have to use the viewer every time. I'm missing my Canon ZoomerBrowser/Windows Gallery software :-(
I really just want to remember what mode I used for the shots.
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What Color Space Should I Shoot In.

First, I'll admit that the entire color management aspect of photography/monitors/printing, is a bit too dense for me to completely comprehend. However, I do have some working knowledge of it. So, here's my pre-LR setup.
I shoot in sRGB and used Photoshop Elements or RSE or DPP to process the RAW or JPG shots. I export in sRGB and do not allow the printer to Color Manage (I use Windows, BTW) If I send to a lab, I do not use any ICC profiles, as I cannot soft proof, so I let the lab use their profiles. My monitor is calibrated using a Pantone Heuy (I know, not as sophisticated as a Spyder, but what I see on the screen matches what I shot, so I'm happy with it.
Now. I will be using LR exclusively for processing my photos. What should I set my camera to? I can use AdobeRGB or sRGB. I realize that LR uses ProPhoto, so I'm not sure where my shooting choice adds or subtracts from the equationand I'm still not sure what settings to print in. I can easily try to let LR translate or manage my file when sending to my home printer. How should I prepare a photo for sending to a lab?
What should I shoot in?
Should I do anything to the LR color space I work in?
What should I do, in regards to color space for printing?
Thaks,
Steven (the confused)

Thanks, Ian. For some unknown reason, I had some time ago set up my user name as one of my e-mail addies, and then when I became active on the LR forums, was too occupied to deal with it, until I learned it was easier than pie. And much easier than pi. 3.414x, no?
I'm leaving in an altered non-robotical-vulnerable format for a bit, so that those that knew me as the E-mail address, or McPhotoman in the beta forum can either listen to what I say, or avoid my postings.... Cheers.

Grass Valley Turbo iDDR Direct Import Formats?

Has anyone successfully figured out a way to export of video file that imports into a Grass Valley Turbo iDDR seemlessly without the Turbo needing to re-format the media itself?
I'm using 8 of these drives on a live production next week and we're looking to reduce our media import times.

Hi Matt, I produce media for corporate events regularly. I just finished a show where we used 3 Grass Valley Turbo iDDR systems exclusively.
The iDDR accepts QuickTime (h.264 codec with the latest DDR software installed), MPEG2, .WMV and a host of other formats. We used MPEG2 (not muxed) for the DDR as it has a max 480 resolution (think of the DDR as DVD player without the disc). The iDDR has ethernet, usb, and firewire inputs as well as CD/DVD for transfer. We used USB with great results as we were projecting on 32 foot screens.
If you are going out of FCPro (which is what I mainly do), I export as a stand-alone Quicktime file (Progressive or Interlace depending on your content) then I use Compresser with a custom setting of MPEG2 (audio/video combined). No problems.
As a side note, contact your AV person who runs the iDDR, they are great at answering questions. I also downloaded the iDDR manual from Grass Valley.
Hope this helps you.
DJ

Can I pause Canon SX50 Video when shooting? Videoing a football game.

I'm looking to video my sons football games to review later. The SX50 is great because I can take still photos while filming, But can I or How do I "pause" video filming between plays so at the end of the game I don't have 50 different video flies that I need to edit together? I know the SX50 is not a cam but I hope for little or no editing time.

I don't have the SX50 but since nobody else has replied... I don't think there is a way to pause it. At least not any way on any of the 3 Powershots I have owned, including one of Canon's newest. As you observe, it isn't a video camera. Canon's Movie Edit software (which I presume came bundled with your camera too) does a fair job of editing video and it is fairly easy to splice movies with it. I think it would be a rare instance where you shoot video and do not want to edit it in some way anyway. I know I wouldn't want a day's worth of my video all strung together because there's always bits and pieces I don't want. With the SX280 in particular I would keep on accidentally pushing the movie button and I'd end up with half a dozen movies of the ground at the end of the day that were 3 seconds long. It was much easier to delete them (e.g., by looking for really small movie files) than have to try to edit them out of a 30 minute sequence.
Powershots: A80, SD1300is, SX280 (returned)

Grass Valley Turbo iDDR

Has anyone ever used the Grass Valley Turbo iDDR system with Final Cut Pro. If so, how did you transfer the file? What file type?

Hi Matt, I produce media for corporate events regularly. I just finished a show where we used 3 Grass Valley Turbo iDDR systems exclusively.
The iDDR accepts QuickTime (h.264 codec with the latest DDR software installed), MPEG2, .WMV and a host of other formats. We used MPEG2 (not muxed) for the DDR as it has a max 480 resolution (think of the DDR as DVD player without the disc). The iDDR has ethernet, usb, and firewire inputs as well as CD/DVD for transfer. We used USB with great results as we were projecting on 32 foot screens.
If you are going out of FCPro (which is what I mainly do), I export as a stand-alone Quicktime file (Progressive or Interlace depending on your content) then I use Compresser with a custom setting of MPEG2 (audio/video combined). No problems.
As a side note, contact your AV person who runs the iDDR, they are great at answering questions. I also downloaded the iDDR manual from Grass Valley.
Hope this helps you.
DJ

Best Video Card for non 3d/compositing work in Premiere CS4?

Hi all, I'm looking to optimize my system where I can to speed up the editing process. I edit 1080p footage from the Canon 5D MKII (h.264 MOV files)using half-res h.264 proxies, but CS4 seems to hang a lot in the timeline view and clips just disappear and instead show green. I'm switching to half-res MPEG-2 (.m2v) proxies now and so far that problem seems to have gone away (still testing), but when timeline display quality is at "High Quality" (vs. automatic) there's still some chop during slow pans (not seen with "Automatic" or "Draft Quality").
Anyway, I'm looking for the weakest point in my system and suspect the video card. My system is an 2.66 i7 processor, 6GB 1333 ram, 1x160GB sata II HD (OS/Apps), 3x1TB SATA II RAID 0 (paging file, data), and an $80 ATI 4650 512 MB video card running Vista 64.
So all that said, what's the best general graphics card for editing HD video in Premiere CS4? I don't care about 3d or compositing at this stage, just basic editing of unrendered (timeline playback) HD video, maybe sometimes 1-3 HD layers, some basic color correction effects (b+w, contrast, etc), dissolves, text overlay, some clip speed manipulation.
Many seem to recommend the Nvidia quadro cards, but I haven't found any information to suggest they help with anything other than 3D/compositing, which I don't need (and therefore don't need to pay the premium).
There's also the Nvidia CX card, but it's main feature is touted as encoding h.264, whereas I could care less about that and ideally need decoding of h.264 in the timeline to be better. I haven't seen any great reviews on this card of heard of average user testimonials, probably because it's $2k and it mainly marketed as "zoom more fluidly in photoshop, export h.264 4x faster", which seem like minor issues vs. "better realtime playback of HD video".
I sort of rambled, but if any informed CS4 users can help answer the question regarding the best video card for general CS4 editing use (not 3d/compositing stuff) I'd love to get more insight.

So in Media Encoder CS4, I tried encoding one of the clips that plays back the least smooth in the Premiere timeline (a slow pan across intricate patterns on a sand dune in death valley) to the following:
Format: P2 Movie, Preset: DVCPRO HD 720P 30
(this was the only format in media encoder that mentions DVCPRO HD)
I noticed when trying to customize the setting, that there is no 30 fps option, just 23.976, 29.97, and 59.94. I just went with 29.97 as that was the closest to the 30 fps of the source MK II footage. The width and height were also unajustable at 960x720 for the DVCPRO HD format.
Playing the output in the timeline view of Premiere was comparable in smoothness to the m2v file. I looked at my resource monitor during playback looking for bottlenecks, and the CPU does seem to spike at 100% initially when playing this clip back. I reverted to the m2v version and also saw the same CPU spike. I also reverted back to the down-res'd mp4 version, same spike. Moving display quality down to draft does allow for smooth playback here.
So I guess there's something about this clip that is CPU intensive to play back in the timeline in any of these formats. The original 1080p version plays back perfectly in both quicktime and VLC player.
Anyway, for now I think I'm content with using the m2v proxies as a big chunk of the clips are fairly smooth, and using a reduced quality display mode for clips that don't play as smoothly is accpeptable for now. At least so far I'm not seeing the hanging/video not displaying (and instead showing a green screen) that I was with the mp4 proxies.
If anyone has any other suggestions as to how to get smoother timeline playback for these proxies (or the original h.264 .MOV files), however, whether it be a hardware upgrade (e.g. better video card) or a different proxy codec, I'd love to hear them and give it a shot.

Temperature tolerance of MacBook Pro?

We are planning a project in Death Valley national park for mid-July or August, and I am trying to find out if my laptop is going to get fried out there (literally), or if i will be able to use it during the trip (we are shooting video and plan is to digitize and edit in the evenings). Does anyone know if there is a maximum external temperature beyond which it just doesn't work...? thanks!

The only temp that will force a shutdown is if the CPU hits about 100 C (212 F)... the boiling point of water. While under normal circumstances the CPU will not get this hot even under a heavy load... that is somewhat dependent the ability of the internal fans ability to keep the system cool. If you're going to be in 120 F climates... that doesn't give nearly the cooling that say a 70 F room would. Apple's official specs state the following:
# Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C)
# Storage temperature: -13° to 113° F (-24° to 45° C)
# Relative humidity: 0% to 90% noncondensing
I would expect you would easily exceed the 95 F mark during mid July or August in Death Valley... being the hottest possible time of the year to be there. You're looking at temps that would likely climb higher than even the "storage" tolerances. LCD panels can also run into issues at high temps in these ranges... although they will usually revert to properly functioning when they cool down.
Unless you absolutely must have you MacBook with you... I would suggest an inexpensive netbook. Besides the heat... you have sand and dust to contend with as well. It's really about the worst environment for a notebook short of a lake.

Edit a video at original aspect ratio?

I'm curious if there is a way to edit a video in premiere, without having to edit the original aspect ratio of the video - that is, I do not want to have to stretch the video, degrading the quality, nor do I want a bunch of black area added to it, which premiere adds to video that are under the program ratio.
I have some video where the shooter made a mistake and saved at the wrong settings (I would estimate 360 or 480 rather than 1080). The videos look okay at their current size (they are widescreen BTW....or some odd mix between wide and standard). I would rather they play smaller, than be blown up and pixelled to death. But I need to edit the video (cuts, trims, colour correction, etc).
I am using CS4.
Thank you.

You can make your own presets in new sequence/general tab under editing mode choose Desktop.
This will give you the option to set all parameters as you want them to be.

Changing Default Print Quality for Photosmart Printers in Stand Alone mode

Hello Everyone. I am using a group of Photosmart Printers in Stand Alone mode for events where I shoot and print on site. Although I have quite a few printers with me (6 total at a time), I prefer to have the printers print in "Normal" Print Quality Mode, instead of "Best". Images come out twice as fast, and because I have a disciplined shooting technique, I get "GREAT" results from the "Normal" setting. I and/or my assistant have to go to my "Preferences" to change my Print Quality everytime we prepare to print another batch of photos. Sometimes we have groups that will want 5 copies, and it simply takes FOREVER in Best mode, and really, although with a 5x Loupe I can tell the difference, My customers can't with their naked eye. Sometimes we forget to change the setting due to the pressure of the pace sometimes. OOPS!
I am using the following Photosmart Printers: A516, A512v and the 335.
As I stated, I don't use these with a computer, I drive them straight from CF Cards. I do have all the original software, if I need to use the computer to make some changes. Just tell me how. Manual says nothing about getting the setting to default to normal.
Thank you so very much in advance.
BLAYZE!

Hello:
One way of assuring high quality would be to export the photo to the desktop (at highest quality) and then print from there.
In my own case, I find that when I occasionally print a photo from iPhoto, the quality is quite good.
Barry

Show-Hide element in Dreamweaver CS5

Please can you tell me why when I validate a web page I get the following error when using the Show-Hide behaviour. The error is only reported for the first use of the feature and no of the others. I don't understand.
Line 239,         Column 235:     there is no attribute "onload"…HideLayers('drive','','hide')" onload="MM_showHideLayers('drive','','hide')" /…
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You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the       document type you are using does not support that attribute for this       element. This error is often caused by incorrect use of the "Strict"       document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use       the "Transitional" document type to get the "target" attribute), or       by using vendor proprietary extensions such as "marginheight" (this       is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect instead).
This error may also result if the element itself is not supported in       the document type you are using, as an undefined element will have no       supported attributes; in this case, see the element-undefined error       message for further information.
How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and attribute,        (Remember XHTML is all lower-case) and/or        check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, and/or       use CSS instead of this attribute. If you received this error when using the        <embed> element to incorporate flash media in a Web page, see the        FAQ item on valid flash.
Below is a copy of the relevant code -The code in bold is the line causing the error. You will notice I have used it more than once, but I didn't get any other error messages. Please help.
<h3>Artist Drive and Palette</h3>
    
   <div id="drive"><img src="Images/Artist Drive large.jpg" alt="Artist Drive" width="300" height="195" title="Artist Drive" onmouseover="MM_showHideLayers('drive','','show')" onmouseout="MM_showHideLayers('drive','','hide')" onload="MM_showHideLayers('drive','','hide')" />
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    <img src="Images/Artist Drive.jpg" alt="Artist Drive" width="100" height="56" class="fltlft" title="Artist Drive" onmouseover="MM_showHideLayers('drive','','show')" onmouseout="MM_showHideLayers('drive','','hide')" onload="MM_showHideLayers('drive','','hide')" />
    <div id="palette"><img src="Images/Artist Palette large.jpg" alt="Artist's palette" width="300" height="194" title="Artist's Palette" onmouseover="MM_showHideLayers('palette','','show')" onmouseout="MM_showHideLayers('palette','','hide')" onload="MM_showHideLayers('palette','','hide')" />
    </div>
    <img src="Images/Artist Palette.jpg" alt="Artist Palette" width="100" height="60" class="fltrt" title="Artist's Palette" onmouseover="MM_showHideLayers('palette','','show')" onmouseout="MM_showHideLayers('palette','','hide')" onload="MM_showHideLayers('palette','','hide')" />
    <p class="size">These formations are in Death Vally, California, USA. Artist's Drive rises up to the top of an alluvial fan fed by a deep canyon cut into the Black Mountains. Artist's Palette is on the face of the Black Mountains and is noted for having various colours of rock. These colours are caused by the oxidation of different metals (red, pink and yellow is from iron salts, green is from decomposing tuff-derived mica, and manganese produces the purple). Called the Artist Drive Formation, the rock unit provides evidence for one of the Death Valley area's most violently explosive volcanic periods. The Miocene-aged formation is made up of cemented gravel, playa deposits, and much volcanic debris, perhaps 5,000 feet (1500 m) thick. Chemical weathering and hydrothermal alteration are also responsible for the variety of colours displayed in the Artist Drive Formation and nearby exposures of the Furnace Creek Formation.
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    <h3>Badlands</h3>
     
    <div id="badland"><img src="Images/The Badlands large.jpg" alt="The Badlands" width="300" height="183" onmouseover="MM_showHideLayers('badland','','show')" onmouseout="MM_showHideLayers('badland','','hide')" onload="MM_showHideLayers('badland','','hide')" />
    </div>
    <p><img src="Images/The Badlands.jpg" alt="The Badlands" width="100" height="61" class="fltlft" onmouseover="MM_showHideLayers('badland','','show')" onmouseout="MM_showHideLayers('badland','','hide')" onload="MM_showHideLayers('badland','','hide')" />
    </p>
    <div id="badland1"><img src="Images/The Badlands1 large.jpg" alt="The Badlands" width="300" height="132" onmouseover="MM_showHideLayers('badland1','','show')" onmouseout="MM_showHideLayers('badland1','','hide')" onload="MM_showHideLayers('badland1','','hide')" />
    </div>
    <img src="Images/The Badlands1.jpg" alt="The Badlands" width="100" height="44" class="fltrt" onmouseover="MM_showHideLayers('badland1','','show')" onmouseout="MM_showHideLayers('badland1','','hide')" onload="MM_showHideLayers('badland1','','hide')" />
    <p class="size">Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota preserves 242,756 acres (98,240 ha) of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United States. On-going rains, freezes and thaws have revealed millions of years of sediment that paint a colourful landscape on the prairies of south-western South Dakota. It contains the world's richest Oligocene epoch fossil beds, dating 23 to 35 million years old.
    </p>

Sometimes DW's javascripts will throw errors like that, most of the time it can be ignored.
What doctype are you using (the first line of your html)?
If you have a "Strict" Doctype, did you try changing it to a "Transitional" version as the error report suggested?
Edit > Preferences > New Document > Default Document Type (DTD) > Change from Strict to Transitional of the same version.

Preview a .dwt in Chrome or Firefox shows code not a preview, why?

I use a template .dwt file which I used to be able to preview in Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari just to check all would look OK.
Last week I made some changes to the master .dwt file and now Chrome, Firefox and Opera display the html code and Safari displays nothing. IE displays the web page.
If I create a new page from the master .dwt and preview that, it works OK
I have validated the master .dwt and W3C reports no errors, I have also checked the style sheets and they also get passed as OK.
I must have something in the .dwt file that is wrong but I can't see it.
Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks
Derek

Hi Jon,
Here it is there are some style sheets to go with it, can post them if needed.
Thanks
Derek
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ICloud and Photos app are not showing full resolution photos

Since migrating my iPhoto library to Photos, it has had problems showing the full resolution of photos. I initially had "Optimize Mac Storage" selected, but even when I had space available, it would not download the full resolution version of a photo. The loading circle in the bottom right corner would spin until it would be 'fully loaded' but the photo would not become the full resolution photo. I then checked "Download Originals to This Mac", but after it said it had downloaded the full sized versions of everything, the same problem occurred. I then went to iCloud and the iCloud Photos app and saw that some of my photos were displayed at about 1/3 the size on the screen. This wasn't just zoomed out. When I zoomed in closer the image did not resolve any better.
HOWEVER, downloading the photo from iCloud and opening it in preview gave the full resolution photo. I have attached an image showing the different levels of resolution from os x Photos app, iCloud, and the downloaded image (shown in Preview). I used the zoom slider on Photos until it reached 100%, I set the view in Preview to "Actual Size", but in iCloud to get the same dimension image, I had to zoom to 200%+.
Another thing that I noticed was that this doesn't happen to all of my photos:
It definitely happens to all of my photos taken with a Fujifilm X-M1, where I shoot in RAW, adjust and process in Lightroom, then export JPEGs to iPhoto. These tend to be slightly smaller (largest side 2048 pixels).
It doesn't happen to photos taken with 645Pro app (where I still export JPEGs to iPhoto with largest side 2048 pixels).
It happens to some, but not all, photos taken with the iPhone's native camera app
I am very confused. Also, even after having checked "Download Originals to this Mac" and letting it download everything, the Photo Library is only 3.77 GB. In iCloud it is ~10GB and my old iPhoto library was about ~15GB.

I now discovered that I can't edit photos in the Photos app (presumably because Photos is not communicating well with iCloud and can't download the full resolution photo to edit).

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