> G'day all > > I don't often use a telephoto lens for landscape work but I > was attracted by the dark reflection of these trees in the > water and, as I was quite a distance away, I had to use the > 80-320 zoom. > > This is a horizontal crop of the original image which I, for > reasons only explainable by the several glasses of Hunter > River Shiraz consumed previously, photographed in portrait format. >
That's what you get for choosing wine by the grape variety instead of the terroir. It would never have happened with a 1990 Cote de Beaune. > The crop is just over half of the original. (As an aside, I > resampled the crop back up to 6 MP and I'm happy with the > result, but I could have saved myself the trouble if I'd > been competent enough to take a few shots in landscape format > in the first place). > > > http://www.blognow.com.au/PESO/129678/Lakeside.html > > > > Comments, of course, are extremely welcome. > It's a very nice shot for all that. Beautiful light and texture, nicely composed. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

