The Pacific
National Exhibition is a fair held annually in Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada.
The location is at Hastings Park, where the worlds
fair was held, and also the home of Playland amusement park.
It takes
place on labor day weekend and the two previous weeks and weekends.
All of these images were taken with a Minolta DiMage Z1 digital camera.
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It's about 130 miles from where I live in Shoreline to Hastings park in
Vancouver.
The first place we went to after we got past the ticket
booth and entrance gates was the restrooms.
I didn't get any pictures,
thinking perhaps that other patrons might not appreciate it, but they were
bad.
My advice if you go to the PNE, stop somewhere else first and go
to the bathroom.
The next place we went was to a horse show they call Equestriana.
It's
mostly a dumb little play about a girl and her horse.
There are
performances where they jump horses and one person that does acrobatics on
horseback.
The Minolta DiMaage Z1 digital camera has a maximum sensitivity of ISO 400
film.
These pictures were indoors with poor lighting and a lot of
motion.
In order to get these pictures I did roughly the equivalent of
push processing film.
I shot these images with the lens wide open and
mostly a shutter speed of 1/60th of a second.
This was about the
slowest I could get away with and not have just total motion blur.
It
was also far too fast to get anything close to proper exposure.
When I got home I used software to expand the pixel distribution
effectively digitally push procesing.
Doing this I was able to get
something more on the order of ISO 6400 film with all the attendent
grain.
The pictures aren't high quality but I was able to capture images I
probably would not have been able to with 35mm film.
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I wanted to document the depth, and so took this picture but of coarse didn't notice the ruler was backwards until I unloaded the camera. It still indicates the depth however as it's a 12 inch ruler. It was six inches on the deck railing as of 5AM. About eight now at 7AM. |
This is the corner of the roof where the telephone cable attaches. That thick thing with the snow on it is the cable. Again this is taken just with available light, the orange tints are from sodium vapor lamps and the blue from mercury vapor and flourescent lighting used in various porchlights, etc. The camera really is capable of taking clearer night shots but I didn't have a tripod handy and couldn't hold it sufficiently steady by hand. |