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Thanks for all the compliments and comments ... Some responses to individual questions. From: Joe Barnhart > ... I see the shot was 1/20 sec with your DA70 -- tripod? I've > considered getting something like a combo walking stick/monopod for > hikes. With the tripod, Joe, using the remote release on 3-second delay so I get the full mirror pre-fire vibration reduction. The detail resolution in the full resolution image is stunning and would not be achievable with a monopod or hand-held, I don't think. I have a good monopod now ... the Bogen/Manfrotto 3245 Automatic fitted with a 3229 swivel head (with RC2 clamp so my cameras always have an RC2 adapter on them now and fit everything). A little bulky collapsed but very handy in use. I use it mostly with the 50-200 lens, it makes a decent sort-of walking stick but I wouldn't want to rely on it to take a serious walking stick load. From: Shel Belinkoff > Hi Godders ... quite a nice scene. you were working with good > light, too. > About what time was it when you were up on Twin Peaks? The lower left > corner seems overly dark and lacking detail on my screen. This exposure was made at 7:37am yesterday morning. I was up there shooting from about 7 to 8:30. (The EXIF data is off by an hour as I'd forgotten to reset the K10D clock for DST.) There's plenty of detail even in the dark areas in the full rez rendering and print, but down-sampled for the screen it mushes into darkness. I tried lightening it a bit but prefer the tonal balance in the full rez image as it is here. > Have you ever been to Mt. Davidson early in the AM or just before > dusk when > the cross was lit up? That's always struck me as an overlooked photo > opportunity. Never been to Mt. Davidson at all... ! From: Sonny Carter > Nice shot. I wonder if you have a version in color? It seems the > soft > veil would make it almost monocromatic. Just a thought. ... Thanks Sonny. I have a color rendering as well, now, but it poses a somewhat different interpretation of the scene. I'm not sure yet whether I want to publish or print it, but I suppose I will eventually. It's color is subdued still but hardly monochromatic! Yes, the fog can be a bit thick on the western side of the city. From: Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Very nice! Photoshop vignette? I used Lightroom's Lens Correction panel in the Develop module to exaggerate the natural vignette of the lens by a little bit. It gets heavier in these down-rezzed versions compared to the full rez print, as above. From: Brian Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I really like the way the dark foreground creates a frame for the > central part of the image. I know others would like to see more > detail in the darker corners but I'm not so sure about that - I > think the extra detail in the shadows would lessen the impact. Shel says "to-MAY-toe" and Brian says "to-MAH-toe" ... ];-) From: Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Clear winner! > But wait, you shot it with 70 mm lens. This is forbidden ;-). One > cannot shoot landscapes with tele lenses ;-) Most of my favorite landscape shots were made with a 50-135mm lens ... ! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > While I liked this a lot, Godfrey, and said so, my eye puzzled > over the > three faint squares above the first spire of the Bay Bridge. At > first I thought > maybe they were reflections of buildings. Taking a second look > now, I realize > they must be part of Oakland. :-) Duh. Anyway, they are a little > confusing, > so I guess, if it was my photo, I'd probably clone them out. > Besides this is a > shot of SF, not Oakland. In the full rez print, there is quite a lot more detailing in the distance that delivers the eastern end of the Bay Bridge as well as more of the Oakland shore. Downsampling the image for the web loses most of it, unfortunately. From: Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > There's also a hot-air balloon above left of the pyramid building ;-) LOL ... that one I've removed now, both from the image and from the sensor (did that jiggle-and-clean thing again, poof! it's gone). That and one other very small speck are the only dust marks I've found ... not bad for an f/11 aperture setting, given I was in a big lens swap mood yesterday and kept swapping back and forth between four lenses between almost every other shot! (This morning's outing was very different ... I did fifty-two exposures all with the DA21...) thanks again Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
