A drive up the Angeles Crest

[jamal]

Just north of LA there's a pretty fun mountain road that goes nowhere. There's a restaurant/bar, hiking and camping, and some closed ski areas but the highway just goes up there about 50 miles and dead ends. My friends and I have a tendency to go up there mostly because it's the closest place to go out for a fun drive. Tonight we went up there and it was really foggy and cold and I managed to take a couple of neat pictures.

Like this one:



It got even more foggy right after that and we decided to take a picture of ourselves standing around looking cold:



End of the road:



And snow. In Southern California:



okay well we are at like 7000ft so that might have something to do with it.

There's a tunnel up there:



Which was really creepy. Especially with the car and flashlights off.

It looked kind of like that:



Then I had my friend stand still with a flashlight for 15 seconds:



And we took some other pictures:





Then we started joking around about cougars and how this would make a great start for a horror movie and decided to move on.

Here's a ski hill:



And that's about it for that trip. When it's clear and you go up to Mt. Wilson it looks like this:



Here's the gallery I made with more pictures:

http://jamalb.net/gallery/v/crest/

Here's an old google map I made with some other pictures.

[Murphy]

wow, great pictures! that tunnel really is creepy, especially the pic with the light behind the car

[asc_up]

Wow. That looks amazing.

+1 on the tunnel looking creepy.

This picture makes it looks like zombies are about to walk out of the tunnel. Like they're going to come out of that fog. I don't know why, but it does. Hahahaha.

[Dynamic Entry]

Aesome pics! Nice to have your every own touge!

[SubaruNation]

Yeah that tunnel should be burned down or something really creepy.

cool pictures!

i like your rediculously bright lights

[magicmike]

This one takes the cake!

[Adam West]

Nice. Looks terrific. You must have a good camera to get those night shots.

[jamal]

Thanks. it's a Canon S3 IS, which is about as good as you can get before going into DSLR territory. They're only like $250 these days since the S5 came out.

I really was past the limit of that camera though. it only takes 15s max exposures so I had to really bump up the ISO setting on a lot of those which made them grainy.

Here are a few more from up there:







These are from a pullout farther down and the top of Mt. Wilson a few months ago:



Full tele with a 12x optical zoom. Probably needed a lower iso setting:

[SubaruNation]

ok right now, your car IS jesus. ha ha
with all the lights and stuff, its just epic

[jamal]

I'm still not really happy with the beam spread though because it's not wide enough to see into corners. Fortunately I have a solution:

[SubaruNation]

i would love for my headlights to be as bright as yours anyday. and wow... those should work then huh?...ha ha

[AWD_addict]

Cool shots!
I have the same Canon, I'm pretty pleased with it except for the graininess of some pictures. And the first one I got had something on the inside of the lens, so I had to return it.
What mode did you use for that ski hill pic?

[jamal]

I took all those in manual mode with as low of an iso setting as the light would allow. So a couple were 15s exposure with the aperture wide open and ISO400/800.

I think the ski hill was a 10s exposure at ISO100 with f/2.7

The EXIF data is in the gallery but doesn't say the iso setting.

[entirelyturbo]

I agree with the other Mike. Either of those pictures with the light behind your car are amazing.

[Kowalski]

Nice pics! I saw them somewhere else and wondered if there were any goons on the BBS... Looks like there is

[jamal]

Nice pics! I saw them somewhere else and wondered if there were any goons on the BBS... Looks like there is

sybir is too. I don't know of anyone else.