Good to hear, and you're doing well too (your street shots are very nice).My experience re: shift in thinking depending on the lens you have
matches your thoughts precisely - if I shoot with 105, I look for
portraits, if I shoot with 20 - I look to mix with the crowd, If I
have a superzoom (never owned any, but shot with one for a couple of
days)... well... I get lost - I am not sure what to look for
Thanks very much, Alex! Would love to see Siberia.
Lil, I'm not a big fan of mosquitoes either (to put it mildly). That's why I tend to go north in September when they are gone. I agree with your other points too, except I rarely eat pizza.
Didn't think about that Lasse. I've not gone at that time of the year.... I've gone in August to Järpen & I do recall mosquitoes while there at my grandparent's house.
There's no need to justify posting these -- this is, after all, a photography site. These are really good pictures, but I have to ping on one thing that I would correct (because I find I have to correct it in almost every shot of my own!):
Thanks, Roger, for your critique and thanks, Roger, for your support!
Honestly, I'm perfectly aware that many (or most?) of my images are
not perfectly level. I'm using the grid in the viewfinder but it
doesn't help. Personally I don't bother much. Guess I have some kind
of automatic level correction in my head. Or am I just level-headed?
What do I know?
But I know that some people are very sensitive to this issue and I'll
try to think about it in the future. And, Roger, I have to agree with
Roger that the second example is slightly tilted to the left (you can
see it if you look at the tiny lake behind the tent). The first
example is really tricky, you have to carefully examine the horizon
in the centre of the image and – damn it – you'll find that it is
ever so slightly tilted to the left.
Again, thanks to both of you and I'll try to do better in the future
(but I don't promise anything).
Regards
Lasse
Thanks, Johnny! The water was indeed very cold, only a few degrees above freezing point, but it actually didn't bother me. Crossing streams is a challenge that I enjoy very much and this one was almost too easy.
Thanks again! I have spirit levels on my tripod heads but I will probably never learn to get my images level when I'm shooting handheld, which I do a lot. Don't know what's wrong with me. And I don't really like the cropping that is inevitable when I need to rotate in PS. So I often prefer to leave my images slightly slanted and hope that noone will notice.
I agree, those pictures are not level. What I find interesting is that they are tilted towards the left, which is also the way those of my pictures that are not level - about 95%
- are tilted. I almost never have to correct right tilted level. Do others have the same problem?
