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Title: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: Keoma on 18 Oct 2011, 04:15 am
I had a great time at this year's RMAF (my very first audiophile event, in fact) and decided to create a photo album on my personal blog. For those interested, please feel free to visit:

http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/ (http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/)

Please click on each image to enlarge them. They are about 1100 pixels wide, so they might take a little bit to load. I will be adding about 160 additional photos throughout the week, so everybody's more than welcomed to keep visiting the page in the next few days. In the meantime, you can see some previews below. Hope you like them!

(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=52577)

(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=52578)

(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=52579)

(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=52580)

(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=52581)

(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=52582)

(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=52583)

(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=52584)

(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=52585)

(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=52586)

(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=52587)

(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=52588)

(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=52589)

(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=52590)
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: Tyson on 18 Oct 2011, 04:18 am
damn, those are awesome!
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: abernardi on 18 Oct 2011, 04:20 am
beautiful shots!
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: Pez on 18 Oct 2011, 04:26 am
Pretty! I didn't even think about getting creative most of the time. I'm glad someone did.  :thumb:
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: JerryM on 18 Oct 2011, 04:51 am
Dude, you need to hang out with Pez and Tyson next year!!

Beautiful pics!! 
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: Nick77 on 18 Oct 2011, 10:49 am
Wow awesome shots, magazine quality! Thanks!!  :thumb:
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: jtwrace on 18 Oct 2011, 11:12 am
Awesome!

Can you share the gear used?
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: KJ on 18 Oct 2011, 11:50 am
Those are some sweet pics.   :thumb:
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: ratso on 18 Oct 2011, 02:34 pm
really wish i had learned to use a camera at some point. those are great.
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: taoggniklat on 18 Oct 2011, 02:34 pm
Great job, love the perspective.
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: Keoma on 18 Oct 2011, 04:10 pm
Awesome!

Can you share the gear used?

Thank you all for the very nice words! Glad you are enjoying these. I used an entry-level Canon Rebel T1i with the stock 18-55mm lens. Nothing fancy, but I find that the key is to avoid the flash like the plague and take advantage of the available natural light. I used Photoshop CS4 for some minor color saturation re-touching, to add the black borders, and to re-frame the images in a wider aspect ratio, for a more "panoramic" and dramatic effect.

Please feel free to keep visiting the link above. :) Just posted plenty more at my blog. Still have lots to go!
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: WGH on 18 Oct 2011, 08:39 pm
I like the natural light too and love your closeups. The plasma tweeter eluded me, I would have needed a tripod to get that shot. I waited until the rooms cleared out a little then moved a chair to the best spot and used the chair back as a tripod to steady my Canon G11.

I'll keep checking your blog, you are doing great!

Wayne
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: Kinger on 18 Oct 2011, 09:14 pm
Amazing how some folks just have an "eye" for pictures.  Talent I certainly don't have.

Love the shot with what appears to be all of the PrimaLuna gear.  Don't think I've seen any sound reports from that room unfortunately........
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: jtwrace on 18 Oct 2011, 11:24 pm
Thank you all for the very nice words! Glad you are enjoying these. I used an entry-level Canon Rebel T1i with the stock 18-55mm lens. Nothing fancy, but I find that the key is to avoid the flash like the plague and take advantage of the available natural light. I used Photoshop CS4 for some minor color saturation re-touching, to add the black borders, and to re-frame the images in a wider aspect ratio, for a more "panoramic" and dramatic effect.

Please feel free to keep visiting the link above. :) Just posted plenty more at my blog. Still have lots to go!

Thanks!   :thumb:

Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: targa02 on 18 Oct 2011, 11:36 pm
beautiful shots!

+1!
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: studiotech on 19 Oct 2011, 12:23 am
Nice, dramatic shots.  Thanks.

Greg
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: ceedee on 19 Oct 2011, 09:07 am
+1!

+1 extra

Thanks for sharing.

Cor
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: funkymas on 19 Oct 2011, 03:24 pm
Nice pics.  :D
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: Keoma on 19 Oct 2011, 03:28 pm
Thank you, all! :) :D

Just uploaded a new batch, with around 35 more to go:

http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com (http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com)
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: eclein on 19 Oct 2011, 07:30 pm
Keoma- Thank for showing us a different way to look at this gear, your talent is obvious, your sense of space and feel for reflections is awesome... Thank for sharing your talent with us!!!! And welcome to AC!!!!
 Ed :thumb:
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: eclein on 19 Oct 2011, 07:34 pm
Keoma- would you consider putting some that you don't mind clearly opening up to public distribution in a zip file so MAC or PC user could take some and fill my our computers with cool wallpapers????? If not I totally understand but even 4 or 5 or 50...LOL...would be awesome!!! :thumb:
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: Keoma on 19 Oct 2011, 11:29 pm
Keoma- would you consider putting some that you don't mind clearly opening up to public distribution in a zip file so MAC or PC user could take some and fill my our computers with cool wallpapers????? If not I totally understand but even 4 or 5 or 50...LOL...would be awesome!!! :thumb:

Hi eclein. That shouldn't be a problem. Actually, have you tried right-clicking on the images at the blog, as they are now? I noticed Google compresses them a little bit during the upload process, so the quality is not the best, but the resolution is pretty high (around 1100 horizontal lines) so that shouldn't be too bad for a normal wallpaper. If I have some free time next weekend I'll try to upload 5 or so in their original (non-compressed) quality to a server and I'll share the link. Thanks for the request. I suppose that's the best compliment one can hope to receive!
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: eclein on 20 Oct 2011, 12:07 am
Awesome!!!!!
 When I try and grab photos from the site I guess where you have them all, it looks like its an index.html file....for like eveyphoto...I'll check better but zip zip zip my new friend!!!!!  TY.. :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
 Ed
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: Keoma on 20 Oct 2011, 12:31 am
Awesome!!!!!
 When I try and grab photos from the site I guess where you have them all, it looks like its an index.html file....for like eveyphoto...I'll check better but zip zip zip my new friend!!!!!  TY.. :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
 Ed

Try this, in the meantime:

click on any one of the images. That will open it in a "pop out" window. Once there, right click and select "open image in new tab". That should take you to a new tab with the original (if slightly compressed) 1100 X 800 (or so) image. Let me know if that works for now.
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: 2bigears on 20 Oct 2011, 12:39 am
 :D   WOW,OK i need those Plasma Tweets....  Sweeter "Hi's" i am sure......Actually,i would love to know bestest speakers in the 10,20 and 30 k range....Who the heck can afford 30 thousand dollar speaks ????   Guy can dream though.....'Vapor formed or grown" cones are another sweet item one must but on the bucket list....Ha    Pat   :D
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: Keoma on 24 Oct 2011, 03:39 pm
Pez, thank you very much for making this a "sticky" thread. Much appreciated!

For reference purposes, and to make things simpler, here are the direct links to all the images:

Part 1:
http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/2011/10/souvenirs-de-rocky-mountain-audio-fest.html (http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/2011/10/souvenirs-de-rocky-mountain-audio-fest.html)

Part 2:
http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/2011/10/souvenirs-de-rocky-mountain-audio-fest_17.html (http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/2011/10/souvenirs-de-rocky-mountain-audio-fest_17.html)

Part 3:
http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/2011/10/souvenirs-de-rocky-mountain-audio-fest_18.html (http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/2011/10/souvenirs-de-rocky-mountain-audio-fest_18.html)

Part 4:
http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/2011/10/souvenirs-de-rocky-mountain-audio-fest_6034.html (http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/2011/10/souvenirs-de-rocky-mountain-audio-fest_6034.html)

Part 5:
http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/2011/10/souvenirs-de-rocky-mountain-audio-fest_7505.html (http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/2011/10/souvenirs-de-rocky-mountain-audio-fest_7505.html)

Part 6:
http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/2011/10/souvenirs-de-rocky-mountain-audio-fest_1957.html (http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/2011/10/souvenirs-de-rocky-mountain-audio-fest_1957.html)

Part 7:
http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/2011/10/souvenirs-de-rocky-mountain-audio-fest_19.html
 (http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/2011/10/souvenirs-de-rocky-mountain-audio-fest_19.html)

Part 8:
http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/2011/10/souvenirs-de-rocky-mountain-audio-fest_8127.html (http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/2011/10/souvenirs-de-rocky-mountain-audio-fest_8127.html)

Part 9:
http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/2011/10/souvenirs-de-rocky-mountain-audio-fest_20.html (http://estebanmedaglia.blogspot.com/2011/10/souvenirs-de-rocky-mountain-audio-fest_20.html)
Title: Re: My RMAF '11 Photo Album
Post by: lonewolfny42 on 26 Oct 2011, 05:41 am

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-omOSks3LWLU/Tp9dk5dsmwI/AAAAAAAAB1c/j6ueJMRwAus/s1600/rmaf141.jpg)