[photo-3d] Re: New Orleans Trip looking for Photo Ops and Light Meter Store.

["Eddie Bowers" <eddieb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx, k_t_wade@xxxx wrote:
> This entire weekend the Wade Family South will be headed to New 
> ...

There is tons of photo ops in New Orleans. I think people either love 
the city or hate it, but I love it. And that's from someone who 
doesn't drink hardly at all and has never been to Mardi Gras. You can 
get anywhere you want on foot and by trolley.

Hit the french quarter and Jackson square (very near the Aquarium).
I actually didn't get many stereo shots at the aquarium because of 
extreme low light, murky water and reflections from the glass. The 
albino alligator makes a good picture though.

Go to the Mardi Gras museum (take the ferry right next to the 
aquarium). I got some great shots there. Lighting is tricky because 
it's in a warehouse, so you might want to use a little fill flash.

If they are still there, you might want to get pictures of the 
artists fish. They are like the cows in Chicago, but it's fish, and 
they are all over town.

Go to The D-Day museum. You can only take flash pictures on the lower 
level (which ironically is the only level which enough light to take 
pictures without a flash), but it's a good exhibit and you might get 
some good shots with some faster film (it's very dark).

You may also want to hit some of the many cool cemeteries (they have 
tours of them)

Take a swamp tour if you have time.

For a light meter, you may wan to hit Liberty Camera Center.
Lakeside Camera and Imaging I think is bigger, but you may have to 
drive to it.

-Eddie
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