View this post on InstagramHad to get out for a while. Night video while hunting proved really difficult and bothersome, I will work on salvaging what footage I took a bit later. I need in the future to get the photography in an active area. #geology #precambrian #limestone #geologyrocks#fluorescentminerals #inyocounty#minersls#nopa#pahrump#explore #getoutside
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View this post on InstagramGlow sticks can mark anything important or dangerous. I have the SW lamp on simply to show how it glows. Glow sticks won’t light the way but they are invaluable for marking an area. #geology#geologyrocks#fluorescentminerals #roadtrip#explore#pahrump#rockhound#minerals
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View this post on InstagramBy prospecting blind I mean that you’ve gone out to some unrecognized collecting area and are simply wandering around. Research to put you on decent ground is always the recommendation but I was out to wander and perhaps record some steps in fluorescent mineral hunting with video. The next video will be instructive regarding the Convoy Dragonfly LW and photography but I’ll need to replace my field narration. #nopahwilderness #inyocounty#geology#rocks #fluorescentminerals #rockhounding#rockhound#mojave#mojavedesert
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View this post on InstagramDocumenting fluorescent mineral hunting at night on video will be a real challenge for me. My dedicated camcorder can overcome some of the problems you see here because I can adjust the white balance, greatly reducing what is known as blue bleed. These adjustments, however, would all have to be done in the dark or very low level light. That is a tricky, practical problem. And then I'd need to fine tune the video in post, again, quite a challenge. My still camera can also better adjust for white balance. A compromise might be to do a number of stills, and then make a slideshow movie. All of this, of course, takes away from collecting which is what I want to do in the first place. I think it would be worth the effort to do a good video in a very good area, such as the Yellow Pine Mine in Goodsprings. There was an area when I last visited of about forty feet by twelve feet, and on the ground were small chips of hydrozincite. It may have been a dump made level, and none of the chips were of collectible size. Never-the-less, the ground glowed blue and white and it looked like I was walking on stars. southwestrockhounding.com#geology#fluorescentminerals #photography#rockhound#geogistonboard#rockhounding#nopawilderness#nightimephotography#pahrump#minerals#iv#flourescentlights #video#postprocessing
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