That's great light! Wonderfully sharp, nice expression. A lot to like. Cheers, frank
Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: >I brought the bigma to work today. Using what I learned on Friday, >plus a lens with twice the max focal length (500 vs 250mm), I took far >fewer frames, but I think the results were a lot better. > >I think that artistically, this is the best of the lot: >http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/11526987596/ > >Here is today's set of 16: >http://www.fluidr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157638969196746/ > >And for those that want to do a side by side of the tamron 18-250 >versus the sigma 50-500, these are the ones I shot last week >http://www.fluidr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157638889151025/ > >Observations: >Even in these days of ridiculously high resolution sensors, >focal length matters. > >Particularly at high resolution on my big monitor, a few of the photos >looked just a bit rough in the noise department. It turns out that >they were shot at ISO 6400. The twenty first century has done some >very good things for photography. > >Even so, I really should have used my monopod so that I could have >dropped the shutter speed and gotten more depth of field or a lower >ISO. “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.