There are no volcanoes in the Olympic range. It was formed along a
subduction zone where the Juan De Fuca plate dove under the North
America plate. I have had enough Geology in the distant past to make me
a dangerous collection of bits and pieces of knowledge that may or may
not be correct. This subduction caused a buildup of sediments along
with basaltic crust material and heat and pressure caused some
metamorphic rock to form, too. So, it is a mix of rocks. The mountains
are igneous like a volcano and are mainly basalt. Since I was fairly
north along the coast, I suspect a lot of the sand is the result of
glaciers carving this basalt and sending it down the rivers to the coast
in an endless supply. So, not really volcano volcanic, but still igneous
rock, and mixed with a fair amount of sedimentary rock erosion. As one
goes more south and further from the mountains the sand is much lighter
and probably consists of mainly eroded sedimentary rocks.
There. Accept with a grain of salt dissolved in water to make about a
3.5% solution. And my apologies to any geologists on the list.
Aram
On 10/11/2021 11:26 AM, Peter Stevens (fritzj3) wrote:
Hi Aram. Thanks very much for your thoughts, and for posting the opther shots--
from the Q2. Those images - the Razor Clam and the two of the crab are great
with the focus and clarity. I ran a couple of tests with my Q2 as well and it
seems to be, again, whenever the subject of focus is white or a light beige/tan
that focus is tough for me to discern on this monitor. I’m going to try a
different monitor later in the week and see if that makes any difference.
Again, your images, other than the white of the tree fungi, are all fine and
there are no problems with the other images at all. As a matter of fact, I'm
intrigued with the sand in the Razor Clam image.
I’ve seen dark sand on beaches in Costa Rica on the Pacific coast decades ago
and was told that they were volcanic in origin. Is that also true for the
Olympic Peninsula?
Best regards,
Peter S
On Oct 9, 2021, at 8:03 PM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:------
I am not sure what you are trying to say, Peter. I am sending a few more
"macro" shots in the next email. The fungus and these next shots were all hand
held. I find when I hand hold that it locks on to the subject where I want it (spot
focus mode) but then before I actually snap the photo I may have wavered a bit so the
focus point is not where I thought it was. Last spring I shot some dogwood with
continuous focus in some wind on a tripod. That worked pretty good on both my Nikon and
the Q2 at keeping the focus on the point i wanted in spite of the moving subject. I did
not think of doing that on these that are the opposite situation - static subject but
moving camera. I have some software that will tell me where the focus point was in.
the photo with a Nikon, but Leica either does not include that info in the RAW data or
the software I have does not read it from a Leica DNG file. I would like to get that
info for my curiosity.
One thing I have noticed in LR is that my Q2 shots do not look as sharp as my
Nikon D750 shots until I go to 1:1. Then it is no contest at all. It does take
a bit for LR to snap them into focus (loading.....) but when it does it is
amazing. My laptop is a Dell with the 10th generation i7 and 8GB and my
desktop is a 10th generation i9 with 128GB so I would think both can handle the
load fairly quickly.
Anyway look at the shots I am sending and see if they behave the same.
Aram
On 10/9/2021 4:33 AM, Peter Stevens (fritzj3) wrote:
What a unique looking organism, Aram. I like how you've captured the droplets--
of water on the undersides of the “growths” What would you call them? Fungi,
mushroom, or the spawn of aliens from Bakersfield CA? :)
Maybe it’s me and my monitor, because I have the same difficulty when looking
at the “Macro-mode” shots from my Q2 as well. I find it hard to pin-point focus
in an image post processing on subjects of light coloration. I can get the
image in focus thru the EVF and indeed the Q2 acknowledges focus with the
little cross-hair turning green before exposure, but then once the same image
is back on the large screen of a monitor its tough to see sometimes on a
subject of white to light beige in color. I’m experiencing the same with your
image this morning. I’ll try again sometime later this weekend with another
monitor at the office to see if it changes.
Thanks for the image, Aram.
Best regards,
Peter S
On Oct 8, 2021, at 8:12 PM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:------
On a hike to Sol Duc Falls on the Olympic Peninsula. Taken with Q2 in "Macro"
mode.
Sol Duc Olympics-7155 (leica-users.org)
Comments welcome
Aram, back in civilization if SoCal can be called civilized.
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(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
“The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself
would ever have dared dream.”
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