Thanks, Jack. Also Bob S, Christine, Frank, John, Joseph, Ken and Marnie. Comments much appreciated.
Ken.... >BTW I use my 300 all the time for landscapes. Yes, I have to overcome my tendency to always reach for a wide angle lens for landscapes. John.... >And in the U.S. version of the English language, "barbecued snags" would be? Very well cooked sausages of fairly ordinary quality and of unknown composition (sometimes ignorance is a blessing) :-)> >A vertical composition could work if you wanted to emphasize the >foreground reflection of the trees. I might try something like that. I looked at several ways to crop the original but no vertical crop seemed to provide the 'balance' to the scene that the horizontal crop achieved. Bob S.... >Nice. Did your original have more water or sky? No sky - just equal amounts of trees and lake and it really didn't work well. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:22 -0800, "Jack Davis" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Having done your considerable part, obviously, the 80~320 certainly > performed well. Crisp image, with heavy crop, shot at 140mm. > Like it, Brian! > > Jack > > > --- On Thu, 3/5/09, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Brian Walters <[email protected]> > > Subject: PESO - Lakeside > > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > > Date: Thursday, March 5, 2009, 2:51 AM > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > > > Cheers > > > > Brian > > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be -- 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.
