http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/forum/kayaks Canoe Camping & River Tripping Discussion en-US Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:29:28 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/search.php http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/show-us-your-kayaking-photos/page/2#post-1372 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:03:54 +0000 Dennis 1372@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p>That looks refreshing.&nbsp; ;-)</p> http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/show-us-your-kayaking-photos#post-1370 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:34:00 +0000 Bryan Hansel 1370@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p>I looked for the SOF picture, but I couldn't find it on my harddrive. I'll have to dig deeper onto some old drives. In the meantime a little Lake Superior surf action:</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> <a title="Lake Superior Kayak Surfing by Bryan Hansel, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryanhansel/4167746806/" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2803/4167746806_8ed09d256a_o.jpg" alt="Lake Superior Kayak Surfing" width="600" height="402" /></a></p> http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/show-us-your-kayaking-photos#post-1365 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:08:22 +0000 Dennis 1365@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p>I momentarily forgot what I was doing when I jumped in and kicked the flash forward where I couldn't reach it anymore. I think an extra flash would be a good idea but I only brought three with me and one was being used for fill from shore.</p> <p>I would like to see photos of the skin and frame kayak. </p> http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/show-us-your-kayaking-photos#post-1363 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:47:38 +0000 Bryan Hansel 1363@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p>Thanks. I like the lighted kayak concept, but I'm finding that not having a light in the cockpit distracts me. Did you try dropping a third flash into the cockpit area? I definately like the green gelled flashes better. Fun idea. I took one with the same concept when I was building a skin-on-frame kayak. I was stitching the skin and I set a flash inside the boat to light up the skin and 1/2 of my face. Flash is fun.</p> http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/show-us-your-kayaking-photos#post-1362 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:10:22 +0000 Dennis 1362@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p>Cool, I like that. &nbsp;;-)</p> http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/show-us-your-kayaking-photos#post-1361 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:34:08 +0000 Bryan Hansel 1361@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p><img src="http://www.aroundthegreatlakes.com/at5gl/wp-content/uploads/gallery/around-the-great-lakes/071015-072.jpg" alt="" width="502" height="337" /></p> <p>I have too many to figure out which ones to share, so I'll share this one. Amy Voytilla, of <a href="http://www.wildernessclassroom.com/blog/" target="_blank">Wilderness Classrooms</a>, under a waterfall on Lake Superior.</p> http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/show-us-your-kayaking-photos#post-1360 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:24:54 +0000 Dennis 1360@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2699/4162287924_c15483f160_o.jpg" alt="Holiday Decorations" width="650" height="433" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Everyone vanished today so I went for a paddle by myself. I decorated Brucie the kayak with some pine roping and ornaments. After I got done paddling around the lake, I put the camera on a tripod and set the interval timer to take a shot about every ten seconds. I threw a couple of gelled flash units in the front and back of the kayak and had another one with a warming gel on shore for some fill flash.</p> http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/show-us-your-kayaking-photos#post-1208 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:10:11 +0000 Dennis 1208@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p>Since I got some new wireless triggers for my flashes, I decided to give them a little test to see how they compared with the old triggers I used to take some of the previous photos of my kayak. I'm happy to report that the Yongnuo RF-602 wireless remotes do work more reliably and have better range than the old triggers. Pretty good for inexpensive wireless remotes. If my extra transmitter ever gets delivered I'll try taking some photos of myself in the kayak.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2721/4106931796_7477ab7c95.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" /></p> http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/show-us-your-kayaking-photos#post-744 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:55:55 +0000 Dennis 744@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2611/3942137528_26a93f9da1_o.jpg" alt="" width="672" height="455" /></p> <p>More family fun night out. Everyone takes a turn around the lake to work up an appetite for dinner.</p> http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/show-us-your-kayaking-photos#post-732 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:52:19 +0000 Dennis 732@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3454/3938338712_4510412998_o.jpg" alt="" width="433" height="650" /></p> <p>A rare moment of peace. Kayaking is as easy as baking a pie! </p> <p>Hey, that's no soccer mom. </p> http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/show-us-your-kayaking-photos#post-707 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:02:00 +0000 Dennis 707@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p><img src="http://www.insidetheviewfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/whatmovesme.jpg" alt="" width="433" height="650" /></p> <p>The&nbsp;other day&nbsp;when I was taking photos, the kayak kept drifting out into the lake so I decided to tether it this time so I would not have to keep chasing it all the time and risk dropping cameras, radios and flashes into the water. Of course the wind direction changed the&nbsp;day after&nbsp;when I took the next set of photos and the kayak was constantly drifting up on to the beach where I would have to shove and twist to get it back out in the open. Where&nbsp;are the&nbsp;kayak wranglers when you need one? </p> <p>I thought I would change things up and use red gels on the flashes for the next batch. Unfortunately the radio triggers still refused to cooperate, even after I replaced the batteries. The triggers&nbsp;would only fire about half the time and usually only one or the other would fire. I only got the third (fill) flash to fire about three times and had wires, flashes and remotes dangling all over the place as I waded around wrestling the kayak. </p> <p>I did test all this&nbsp;junk&nbsp;ahead of using it&nbsp;and it seemed to be working fine until the moment that I put the flashes in the boat and tried to take a photo. </p> <p>At one point I had a passing thought about what would happen if a fully charged flash came into contact with the water I was standing in...</p> http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/show-us-your-kayaking-photos#post-702 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:43:01 +0000 Dennis 702@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p>We were working on this before you showed up. There are two flash units in the kayak with radio triggers synced to a transmitter on the camera. I kept asking TD if the flashes had fired and he kept looking in my direction and saying,"No."</p> <p>So I'm like, "Tell me if one or both of the flashes go off."</p> <p>He keeps saying, "No I don't see any flash."</p> <p>I'm getting really crabby by this time because of all the flash misfires&nbsp;and say, "Are you&nbsp;telling me you don't see those flashes going off inside the kayak at all?"</p> <p>"Oh, there are flashes INSIDE the kayak?"</p> <p>"Yes, look at the kayak, not at me..."</p> <p>&nbsp;I seriously think we need to have pre-shoot orientation meetings or hand out programs at these events. &nbsp;;-)&nbsp;</p> http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/show-us-your-kayaking-photos#post-700 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:49:04 +0000 James 700@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p>That's pretty cool... but why does the boat look like a huge glow stick?</p> http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/show-us-your-kayaking-photos#post-699 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:24:48 +0000 Dennis 699@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2499/3929494096_fba6b5dd67_o.jpg" alt="" width="436" height="650" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Here is another shot of my Aquaterra Chinook. I don't understand why I always have such a hard time getting people excited about my photography projects.&nbsp;</p> http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/show-us-your-kayaking-photos#post-679 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:36:34 +0000 Dennis 679@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/3925516972_cb4938c968_o.jpg" alt="" width="650" height="433" /></p> <p>James paddles in circles for the camera and then takes off in the direction of the sunset.</p> http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/show-us-your-kayaking-photos#post-676 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:21:52 +0000 Dennis 676@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2654/3924585879_53e6aa64c2_o.jpg" alt="" width="650" height="438" /></p> <p>Here is a shot I made using my shoe mount battery powered flashes with green gel filters. The flashes were not firing consistently using the Chinese radio remotes but I did manage to get a few shots that I liked. I added a graduated filter to the sky in this one because it was a little washed out. I took this about a half hour before sunset so there was still a lot of ambient light in the sky even at 1/250th second. The f-stop is 5.6 and the ISO is 200. Flashes set to 1/2 power in manual mode.</p> http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/perception-swifty-95-kayak-vs-old-town-canoe#post-649 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:36:21 +0000 davyjones 649@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p>fishing from a kayak especially a SinK, sucks. Canoe is the way to go for fishing. Personally I would never get a kayak shorter than 16 ft just because the longer ones are so much faster. If you want a great kayak, get a QCC 700X.</p> <p>I have one, it was my second paddlecraft, and they are extremely fast. I am kinda a speed freak.&nbsp; Short kayaks just don't have the carry capacity, stability or speed of a longer one.</p> http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/perception-swifty-95-kayak-vs-old-town-canoe#post-539 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:45:50 +0000 James 539@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p>I wrote an entire article on <a href="http://www.adventurecanoe.com/canoe-vs-kayak" target="_blank">Canoe vs Kayak</a> on the blog. You should check it out here <a href="http://www.adventurecanoe.com/canoe-vs-kayak" rel="nofollow">http://www.adventurecanoe.com/canoe-vs-kayak</a></p> http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/perception-swifty-95-kayak-vs-old-town-canoe#post-361 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:16:24 +0000 Dennis 361@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p>I have fished from my kayak a couple of times but it required a lot of organization to keep things sorted out in a limited amount of space. If fishing was my primary activity I would go for the canoe. On the other hand there have been a lot of times when no one else wanted to go for a paddle after work or on the weekend, so I would more often just go by myself. My solution was to get a solo boat which turned out to be a kayak but I could have just as easily gone for a solo canoe. </p> <p>So I guess for me it boils down to the amount of time you spend paddling alone verses paddling with a partner. I found that renting a bigger boat when I needed one worked well for me.</p> http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/topic/perception-swifty-95-kayak-vs-old-town-canoe#post-359 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:48:05 +0000 MotoMike 359@http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/ <p>9.5 is a very short boat.&nbsp; I had a Current Designs 12 foot Kestrel and it was quite short too.&nbsp; I got it because I thought the double ended paddle would be more balanced at keeping me fit.&nbsp; also, the low height would be little effected by the wind.&nbsp; both true, but when it comes to the convienience of taking your cooler and the normal gear you want to haul with you, a canoe is very much more usefull.&nbsp; You don't need special down sized tackle boxes to go fishing in a canoe.&nbsp; Also, I occasionally want to take the dog and/or my wife.&nbsp; Not options with a kayak.&nbsp; I got rid of my Kayak, because I just like the canoe better.&nbsp; Especially for fishing where you can move abour a bit and change your seating position.&nbsp; In a Kayak you are pretty much locked in.&nbsp; Longer boats are faster and track better.&nbsp; Even an 119 is on the short side.</p> <p>If you are unsure, why don't you check the classifieds at Paddling.Net and find a used boat in the price range you are looking for.&nbsp; You will get a lot more&nbsp;boat for the money.&nbsp; And though not a fan of Craigs List, for finding a canoe or kayak local it is a pretty good way to go.&nbsp; </p> <p>good luck. &nbsp; </p>