7Springs, GSA ski trip -- Part I. in the practice field

We went to ski at 7springs this Saturday. It was a warm and beautiful day. Sunshine, fresh air and friendly folks join together to bring me a wonderful skiing experience time. I began with a green lane and spent most of the time on the two blue lanes on the north of mountain. Listening to the music with an iPod shuffle, scarf flying around my neck, I felt quite good skiing down the slope. It was really cool though I still rolled over and over, :)

I returned the boots stuff at 4:30 pm and walked up the slope shooting pictures. Those pictures are in Part II -- on the slope of today's post .

The following were taken in the practice field near the lodge. It was about 5:00 pm. I set the sensitivity to ISO 800~1600, and shutter speed 1/400 sec, to get more nature light and to avoid the shake coming from my hand-held camera. Unfortunately, noises were huge appearing everywhere on the image. I turned to NeatImage for help. You can find the latest version of noise profile for Nikon digital camera here. It seems that I can only be confident with this cheap lens in light environment.
Here is a link to how to build a set of profiles for different camera modes with NeatImage.



This nike girl passed me with a snowboard looking at my camera.

hmm... ELASTIC GIRL?



A warm hug.


A carefull girl.

Let's take a rest.