Brian Roebuck
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Caving - the one activity that really brings you to your knees!
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Post by Brian Roebuck on Jan 20, 2007 19:07:09 GMT -5
Being Cavers, Lynn and I spent the afternoon on an easy photo trip to Four Points of Light Cave in middle Tennessee. We met up with the landowner who walked with us to the cave while we all enjoyed the very interesting karst terrain on his property. This area has an abundance of flat limestone pavement areas with large deep cracks up to 30 - 40 feet deep running roughly parallel to each other for many acres. It is all cedar trees and brush but in winter it is much easier to see the details of the terrain. The landowner is very friendly and we talked with him for over an hour even after we were at one of the four entrances to the cave which was located about 30 feet below us in a large wide gash in the bedrock. The cave formed at roughly right angles to the rest of the canyon like cracks we had to traverse and has two skylight entrances along the several hundred feet of it's length. Each entrance is quite inviting and unique and Lynn enjoyed posing me here and there in her photo setups. We tried some flash photos in the dark zones as well as naturally lit photos. Some of the light to dark contrasts were very hard to work with with outside light coming into the dark passages. Also the limstone in this cave is very light colored making it easy to overexpose it with flashes. We enjoyed a few hours of easy caving and photography fun before heading back home. I am sure Lynn will post a few pics in a day or so.
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L Roebuck
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^V^ Just a caver
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Post by L Roebuck on Jan 21, 2007 16:49:18 GMT -5
Ok so here are just a few photo's from Four Points of Light Cave. The trip was mainly to practice a few new in cave and out side of the cave photo techiniques. As you will see from the following photograph's some photo techniques just didn't work out but it was practice and still a most enjoyable day above and in cave! ;D A composite image of one of the four entrances to Four Points of Light Cave. The next attempt at this shot will be during a brighter day. Here's a shot inside the cave. Notice the firefly slave unit in Brian's right hands because it refused to trigger the Nikon D100. After repeated attempts to get this shot we finally threw in the towel. The only slave unit I had was not cooperating so this photo was made with just one flash which was off the camera. In this photo Brian looks at one of the many Hodag Nests in the cave.
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Post by Sharon Faulkner on Jan 22, 2007 2:48:36 GMT -5
Other than the first one, which is just too dark to make out the entrance, the photos look good to me. They show the cave passage well and I can tell who is in the photo. In any case, it looks like a good cave to visit and work on the finer points of cave photography.
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