(Right) Justin Allen with the LTS wireless division reaches for a tool while he installs cable on a City of Beaumont communications tower on Thursday, June 16, 2005.
Photos by Mark M. Hancock / © The Beaumont Enterprise
(Below) Justin Allen with the LTS wireless division installs cable near the top of a City of Beaumont communications tower.
5 comments:
You know it's going to get asked, so I'll do the honors.
You obviously got real close in the first image. How did you get that clean of a shot? Looking at the bracing from the bottom, it's pretty high up there. Did you go up in a boom?
I used a sweet 400mm f/2.8 pool lens. :-)
I also backed away as far as I could inside the compound.
Unfortunately, I dinged up my personal wide zoom as well as my issue zoom, so the wide shot is with a off-brand 28mm prime manual lens. One of the lenses should be returned sometime soon.
I told them my middle initial is short for "iM-pact damage." They didn't believe me. ;-}
That's funny ... but not really. I recently learned how frustrating it is when your lenses turn on you. My 300 mm IS Canon lens suddenly has a big problem focusing on what I want it to. Not only that, but I get error codes frequently when using the IS. It's kind of upsetting when locking in on an action shot and the thing freezes up mere moments before a collision at home plate. I'm manually focusing with it now, which has produced better results, but it's taken a while getting used to manually focusing during sporting events.
Auto-focus is pronounced "ought-to focus." I frequently focus manually because I trust my eyes and zone focus more than AF.
Originally posted June 23, 2005.
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