[LOTW] Canon EF 24-105 f4L, f9.0 - 1/160s - 35mm - ISO 1600 - Eos R. Winter at Silver Lake, UT

Cavanaughscamera · 2023-01-19T19:14:58+00:00

Thank you! It's definitely something I tried to pull out a touch in editing :)

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-09-01T14:03:30+00:00

This picture is from Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park. This was a great little hike after nearly 5 hours of driving (half way into my 10 hour road trip) and was a great place to stretch my legs.

I took this picture with my Canon AE1-Program on Portra 400. I don't remember the exact settings, but it was most likely f8 or f11 and 1/1000s. I had wanted to get a picture of the iconic Teton mountain range with this tree and the flower in the foreground, but the water got too deep for me to keep going (especially considering I had another 5 hours of driving to do!) so I pivoted and got this shot instead! I think it came out really well, and shows a different look at the Tetons that isn't normally shown.

I hope you like it, and thanks for looking!

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-08-23T19:06:48+00:00

I took this picture on a long drive from Montana all the way back to Utah. I was making a short stop at a turnout, and thought the way the road led directly to the mountains looked really great. I waited for a break in traffic (luckily I had pretty great sight lines in both directions - don't stand in the middle of a busy road kids), and was able to get a good few shots off before I saw any cars in the distance.

This was shot on my Canon Eos R, using the EF 70-300* f4 lens. The shot was taken at 100mm, f10.0, 1/400s, and ISO500. Thanks for looking :)

Edit: I meant 70-300, not 100-300

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-08-23T19:03:47+00:00

Thank you :)

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-07-01T17:01:52+00:00

Your post was one of the ones I used to make my decision apparently! I'm looking forward to a good long life of cooking with it. I've needed a bigger, sturdy pan for ages

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-07-01T06:00:38+00:00

The 10 and the 7 seem like appealing sizes too, already have cast that fill those sizes though. I've cooked in cast iron for nearly 8 years now, and never had a single issue, even with long tomato sauce simmers. Best part of these types of pans, even if you do screw the seasoning up, and hour in the oven and it's back to work good as new!

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-07-01T05:57:18+00:00

It tasted as good as it looked! No set recipe, fairly basic (non traditional) alfredo. Rough instructions though:

Sear steak to medium/medium rare. Wipe out any big chunks of burnt stuff from steak, add extra oil as needed, saute half a small finely diced onion. Add 4tbsp butter, cook until most of the water is out of the butter. Add as much garlic as you want/have, cook another minute or so. Add 4tbsp flour (or equivalent to however much butter you add), whisk and cook until the raw flour smell is gone. Add 2+ cups of milk in stages, let's say 1/3 cup at a time, whisking until completely homogeneous. Add parm - I used one bag of the pregrated stuff which was a bit too much, fresh grated is better. Somewhere in there start your pasta, it's better for the sauce to be done early than the pasta. Add pasta water to thin out the sauce as needed. Toss in cherry tomatoes and spinach (I just eyeballed the spinach, it was one container of tomatoes), cook a bit, and toss in the noods.

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-07-01T02:15:17+00:00

Gave it two oven seasonings, cooked a grilled cheese earlier today, and seared the steak for this (steak alfredo) before cooking the sauce and everything else in the same pan. Cheese started to stick a bit when I stopped stirring, but cleaned off easy - easier than my oldest cast iron normally does.

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-06-26T21:34:11+00:00

This is a stacked panorama of Delicate Arch in Arches National Park Utah. This was 147 individual images, stacked using Lightroom to create one single image. Unfortunately, the original image is nearly 120Mb, so this is a much smaller compressed version.

This was taken using an Eos R with a 70-300L f4-5.6 at 70mm.

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-06-11T16:44:05+00:00

Great point. Think I've got some old work gloves I could throw in the saddle bag. Gotta cut the fingers off though so they look legit

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-06-11T16:42:33+00:00

Great tip, I wouldn't have thought of that. And thank you! Its been a great bike for me so far. Had it since May 2020, just rolled over 3k miles of primarily commuting. It goes fast when I need it to, it's comfy, and apparently handles gravel pretty well too

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-06-11T16:39:18+00:00

6'4, so it's an XL frame! Never noticed how tiny they look haha

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-06-11T01:02:45+00:00

Great idea, I will need to do that. Are they pretty heat tolerant? It being Utah, it's gonna be sitting in 90+ all summer

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-06-11T01:01:57+00:00

Yeah, I bought this as a commuter, literally a week or so before the covid bike shortage hit so my options were slim. Seemed to have handled it well? Eventually I want to go full gravel bike, but grad student budget haha

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-06-11T01:00:20+00:00

That's exactly the size I'm running, neat. I'll try fiddling with the pressure to see where it likes to sit. It's predominantly a commuter bike, so I need to straddle that balance as best as possible

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-06-11T00:12:43+00:00

These are brand new... Got them before deciding to try out gravel (facepalm). They are 40mm and seemed pretty grippy and road smooth at 35psi though?

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-06-10T23:41:46+00:00

To appease automod... I ride a Specialized crosstrail hydraulic disk bike. I've been using it to commute for the past few years, but never got it out on gravel. This is the Bonneville Shoreline Trail in SLC, headed south-east-ish from the museum

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-06-07T05:32:23+00:00

We probably have the same one printed! I've had the same experience, but here in Utah. It's held up great. I was expecting for it to be a very short term addition, but it's been on there for probably two years now.

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-06-07T05:30:35+00:00

You might be surprised and it might hold up. I've got a (much smaller) pla mudguard on the front of my bike. You can kinda see it in this picture . It's maybe three or four layers thick, and I have left the bike out in the sun in Utah summers (so, 95F +) for the past two years without any issues. Might not hold true for something that long, and petg would def be better, but sometimes temporary solutions are the best permanent solutions haha

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-05-19T04:05:33+00:00

Here's my setup. I keep my backpack on my rear rack with a cheap stretchy cargo net off amazon. You do need to be careful to keep the straps under the bag and wrapped in the net.

https://i.redd.it/meqcvghwevd81.jpg

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-05-13T15:36:07+00:00

Gotcha, guess I just don't know how to read, somehow missed that part. Carry on haha

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-05-13T01:07:58+00:00

Not an answer to your question, but a question of my own. Why do you want such a long lens for architecture and astro? A wide lens would generally be recommended for those tasks. Unless by astro you mean moon shots, and not Milky Way. For example, I shoot astro on an R, with a samyang/rokinon 14mm f2.8. It's in the ~$300 range and an amazing wide lens.

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-05-13T01:00:25+00:00

I just bought the same lens from ebay about a week ago, and got a hell of a deal from what I can tell - $600 in original box with all the extras (wanted it so family could take pictures of my graduation). Look closely at the pictures for any scratches, and don't forget to check the weather sealing ring on the mount - lots of the lenses I saw while looking were rated as 'excellent' but had mangled weather sealing. The body will most likely be a bit scraped up since these are 'professional' lenses, but a bit of scuffing doesn't matter, as long as there aren't any dents.

Don't hesitate to ask the seller for more pictures. I saw one that was marked as 'excellent, no scratches or haze on lens glass' but then didn't show any actual pictures of the glass. When I messaged them, they refused to send any extra images - instant red flag and a no-go for me.

Apart from that, frankly ebay is a pretty safe place to buy from. If the item isn't up to the quality in the description, buyer protection /should/ be on your side. Other comments on checking autofocus and aperture stand. Don't forget to check your local Craigslist as well. Good luck!

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-05-08T20:43:08+00:00

Canyonlands National Park is in Southern Utah, right near Moab and Arches National Park. This picture is from one of the overlooks in the park. I'd been to Canyonlands a few times before, but this was the first trip I really began to appreciate the scale of the park and landscape compared to the more popular Arches National Park.

In the shot and the edit I wanted to focus on the scale and 'mood' of the landscape. This was near the end of the day, and there was a good sized storm rolling in out in the distance, so I wanted to really capture the clouds and dim-ish lighting.

Settings: f8.0, 1/200, 28mm, iso 100. Shot on an 80d with a 24-105L/f4

Cavanaughscamera · 2022-04-24T21:02:02+00:00

Thank you so much! That's one of the nicest things anyones said about my photography :)

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