Matt-Gibson.org » Photography http://www.matt-gibson.org Adventure Travel and Sport Destinations, Lessons, and Blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:15:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 I Need a Backup Camera. Should I Buy a Canon Powershot G12 or a Panasonic Lumix LX5? http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/07/i-need-a-backup-camera-should-i-buy-a-canon-powershot-g12-or-a-panasonic-lumix-lx5/ http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/07/i-need-a-backup-camera-should-i-buy-a-canon-powershot-g12-or-a-panasonic-lumix-lx5/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:26:34 +0000 Matt Gibson http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=4014 I don’t take pictures often enough. The problem, I have realized, is that whenever I do I have to take my big clunky DSLR, and camera bag with lenses and such, and make a big ordeal out of it.  I need a good quality point-and-shoot that I can carry around on a daily basis.

The Canon Powershot has a reputation for being the point-and-shoot for professionals.

However, during my research, I learned that it has a new competitor: the Panasonic Lumix LX5 .  With a lens manufactured by Lica, this camera is hard to ignore.

The main differences that I can see are these:

The LX5 has a 24 – 90mm vs. the 28 – 120 on the G12.

The LX5 has a maximum aperture of 2.0 – 3.3 vs. 2.8 – 4.5 of the G12.

The LX5 shoots 2.5 frames per second vs. the 1.5 fps on the G12.

The LX5 costs around $420 vs. the G12 at $480.

A full side-by-side technical comparison can be found here.

Help me out here. What do you think I should buy? Please let me know in this poll, or in the comments section.


Thanks for your help!

~Matt

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The other day I paddled a kayak out into the middle of Kootenay Lake to shoot this 360 degree panorama.



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]]> http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/07/photo-360-degree-panorama-of-kootenay-lake/feed/ 4 16 Photos of the Vancouver Canucks Riots http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/06/16-photos-of-the-vancouver-canucks-riots/ http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/06/16-photos-of-the-vancouver-canucks-riots/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:01:51 +0000 Matt Gibson http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=3645 When Vancouver lost the Stanley Cup playoffs fans took to the streets and started flipping and burning cars and looting department stores. If you need photos, a story, or an interview about the riots contact me via email, on Facebook, or on Twitter.

You may also want to:

See more pictures in my Flickr photostream.

Read my first-hand account of the riot on the Huffington Post.

Update!

See the girl in orange smash a cop car with a piece of wood and then light it on fire in this video. That starts at 6:57. She has already been identified numerous times in the comments on the video (and the title of it).

I’m also in the video a few time around 4:48, 6:03, 6:15, and 6:32, but just for a few seconds each time.

]]> http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/06/16-photos-of-the-vancouver-canucks-riots/feed/ 45 Red Bull Illume 2010 Exhibition Headed to Denver, Colorado http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/05/red-bull-illume-2010-exhibition-headed-to-denver-colorado/ http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/05/red-bull-illume-2010-exhibition-headed-to-denver-colorado/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 21:56:34 +0000 Matt Gibson http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=3461 Every year Red Bull holds a contest called the Red Bull Illume Image Quest seeking the best action and adventure sports photographs in the world in ten categories. This years winners can be viewed on the NatGeo website here.

An exhibition of this year’s top fifty photos has been making its way around the world in the past months, and has visited many major cities, but none so fitting perhaps as what is arguably America’s most famous outdoors adventure city, Denver, Colorado. The exhibition will show every night from 8:30pm – 11pm at the Denver Performing Arts Complex in Denver, Colorado from June 3-12.

The price is right: free. You can bet that it will be packed. Below are a few of my favorite photos that didn’t make it into the top ten.

]]> http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/05/red-bull-illume-2010-exhibition-headed-to-denver-colorado/feed/ 0 The Best of My Borneo Wildlife Photography: Pygmy Elephants, Orangutans, and Proboscis Monkeys http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/02/the-best-of-my-borneo-wildlife-photography-pygmy-elephants-orangoutangs-and-probloscis-monkeys/ http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/02/the-best-of-my-borneo-wildlife-photography-pygmy-elephants-orangoutangs-and-probloscis-monkeys/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:24:18 +0000 Matt Gibson http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=2841 Last month I went to Borneo to photograph the island’s most exotic endangered species: pygmy elephants, orangutans, and proboscis monkeys.  All are found only on the island of Borneo (except the orangoutang, which is also found on the island of Sumatra) and all are classified as endangered. Heavy rain prevented me from shooting on all but three days of my trip, but I made the most of the time that I had. Here some of my favorite pictures from the trip.

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Pygmy Elephants

Proboscis Monkeys

Orangutans

]]> http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/02/the-best-of-my-borneo-wildlife-photography-pygmy-elephants-orangoutangs-and-probloscis-monkeys/feed/ 1 The People of Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/02/the-people-of-kota-kinabalu-malaysia/ http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/02/the-people-of-kota-kinabalu-malaysia/#comments Sun, 13 Feb 2011 03:41:54 +0000 Matt Gibson http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=2833 On my first day in Kota Kinabalu I got a little camera happy and went out shooting the local folks around the city. Here are a few of the pictures.

]]> http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/02/the-people-of-kota-kinabalu-malaysia/feed/ 1 Taiwan’s Beautiful and Bizarre Coastline: Jialeshuei http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/02/taiwan%e2%80%99s-most-beautiful-and-bizarre-coastline-jialeshuei/ http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/02/taiwan%e2%80%99s-most-beautiful-and-bizarre-coastline-jialeshuei/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:39:34 +0000 Matt Gibson http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=2806 On Taiwan’s southern tip is a beautiful and bizarre stretch of coast where a unique geological cocktail of rock, including deep ocean stratum, sandstone, and coastal stone, has been moulded into alien-looking shapes by the violent wind and waves that whip and batter the coast.

This is the what it looks like.

]]> http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/02/taiwan%e2%80%99s-most-beautiful-and-bizarre-coastline-jialeshuei/feed/ 0 Rainforest Discovery Center, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/02/rainforest-discovery-center-sabah-malaysian-borneo/ http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/02/rainforest-discovery-center-sabah-malaysian-borneo/#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:39:07 +0000 Matt Gibson http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=2793 The Rainforest Discovery Center is located in the Kabili-Sepilok Forest Reserve in Malaysia’s province of Sabah on the island of Borneo. The center is just up the road from the Sepilok Orangoutang Sanctuary, and not far from the Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary. The center features a walkway where you can walk above the canopy, with intermittent towers for bird watchers, as well as trails and numerous educational signs. Both monkeys and orangoutangs can often be seen at the center, although we didn’t see any while we were there. We did, however, see a lot of beautiful rainforest.  Here are a few pictures from our walk.

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Last Thursday Quicksilver was potentially going to hold the prestigious Eddie Aikau surf competition. The contest is so serious that pro surfers will fly in from around the world to wait and see if it is going to be held. You see, the organizers wait until the day of the competition to decide whether or not the waves are big, and good, enough.  If they aren’t, they call it off.  It has only been held 8 times since 1984.

Last Thursday we all waited to see if the waves would be good enough for the Eddie.  They were huge —  20-25 foot waves.  Unfortunately the event was called off because the waves weren’t consistent enough.  That didn’t stop lots of surfers from getting in the water, nor me from heading up to Waimea Bay to watch.  I was only there for an hour, but I got a few good shots.  Here they are.

]]> http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/01/huge-waves-at-waimeia-bay/feed/ 0 Jialeshuei: A Virtual Tour of Taiwan’s Bizarre Southeastern Coastline | Huffington Post http://www.matt-gibson.org/2010/12/jialeshuei-a-virtual-tour-of-taiwans-bizarre-southeastern-coastline-huffington-post/ http://www.matt-gibson.org/2010/12/jialeshuei-a-virtual-tour-of-taiwans-bizarre-southeastern-coastline-huffington-post/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:51:38 +0000 Matt Gibson http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=2274 A virtual tour in photographs of Taiwan's geologically unique and bizarre-looking southern coastline.]]> A virtual tour in photographs of Taiwan’s geologically unique and bizarre-looking southern coastline. Take the tour on the Huffington Post here.

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