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ed rader said:
i took these with 1ds mark III and 16-35L II.......
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This is my favorite here, great compostion, and the light on the rocks is great. You did good to mostly eliminate the sky as your other images show it was not that great. Sometimes this flat light is great for detail that is often blocked up in shadow.
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Ben_Egbert said:
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This bridge is just below Post Falls dam on the Spokane River in Post Falls Idaho. I have been shooting this bridge for 30 years. It used to be possible to get different angles, but they fenced off everything. The bridge is used by Avista Power to access the dam and is closed to others, it was open 20 years ago. The only view point from this side is at an overlook which requires peeping between these trees. Taken Dec. 10, 2009

1DS-mk3, Zeiss 50mm at f16, focused close to keep the needles sharp.
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hi Ben, this is so well executed - very sharp from f/g to b/g. i prefer the lanscape crop.
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Thanks Jonny, I also prefer the landscape crop. Would you clone out the log or leave it in?
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Ben, the croped version seems to be taken a bit later - the log hides behind the needles. can you get a landscape version from the croped picy. that would not make it necessary to clone out the log. anyway the log didn't disturb me. i only had a closer look when you asked about cloning.
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Thanks Ben - I'm particularly flattered by your favourite choice given your preference for horizontals! These walls are called dry stone walls and we have a lot of them in Yorkshire - a real art to do them well and people still build them here.

The Dales includes a big national park with lots of footpaths so plenty of options to explore. Like you, we have a lot of national parks but I guess there may be more freedom to roam for us. In Scotland the laws of the land are such that, in theory at least, you can pretty much walk anywhere - however there tend to be less footpaths.
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Amazing detail in all of these Ben - you are making me think about one or two of my lenses at the moment! Great use of the TSE in the last even if it's not the most beautiful bridge to my eyes... '-)
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fritzli said:
Ben_Egbert said:
fritzli said:
Ben_Egbert said:
This bridge is just below Post Falls dam on the Spokane River in Post Falls Idaho. I have been shooting this bridge for 30 years. It used to be possible to get different angles, but they fenced off everything. The bridge is used by Avista Power to access the dam and is closed to others, it was open 20 years ago. The only view point from this side is at an overlook which requires peeping between these trees. Taken Dec. 10, 2009

1DS-mk3, Zeiss 50mm at f16, focused close to keep the needles sharp.
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hi Ben, this is so well executed - very sharp from f/g to b/g. i prefer the lanscape crop.
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Thanks Jonny, I also prefer the landscape crop. Would you clone out the log or leave it in?
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Ben, the croped version seems to be taken a bit later - the log hides behind the needles. can you get a landscape version from the croped picy. that would not make it necessary to clone out the log. anyway the log didn't disturb me. i only had a closer look when you asked about cloning.
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Both the same image Jonny. I cropped the square from the landscape version. I cloned out the log after cropping. I could do the same with the landscape version. The log does not bother me, but there was somebodies discraded vacuum cleaner on top of the ice but out of the fram.
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rlshep said:
Amazing detail in all of these Ben - you are making me think about one or two of my lenses at the moment! Great use of the TSE in the last even if it's not the most beautiful bridge to my eyes... '-)
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Well heck, this area was first seen by white men within the last 200 years. A 70 year old bridge is pretty old around here :-)

Both of these lenses make it easy to get detail near and far. It is much more than simple sharpness, it is the lack of CA, light fall off and distortion and that the corners are good pretty much anywhere after f5.6. Of course at 50MM, and focusing at 2-3 feet, I had to stop down.

This shot would not stand scrutiny at infinity, but as long as the bridge was sharp that did not matter.

Up until now, my best shot here was with my old Nikon990. DOF was its strong point. I never could get the bridge and the trees acceptably sharp with my 17-40 or 24-105.
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Shot taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II set on aperture priority (Av) using an EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens tripod-mounted. The exposure was taken at 50mm, f/13 for 1/25th of a second at ISO 100 using a Singh-Ray warming polarizer. Post capture processing was done in Adobe’s Lightroom 3 Beta using Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro for the black & white conversion.

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27-Oct-2009 16:31:15 - Tuscany (Toscana), late afternoon, sun but hazy, so hardly shadows and very soft light.
Pieter

Pievina, view from Road SS438 between Asciano and Vescona



Canon EOS 5D Mark II ,Canon EF 70-200 mm f/4L IS USM
1/100s f/9.0 at 200.0mm iso200
 
This is a great image, love compostion, the detail and tonal range.
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Shot taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II set on aperture priority (Av) using an EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens tripod-mounted. The exposure was taken at 50mm, f/13 for 1/25th of a second at ISO 100 using a Singh-Ray warming polarizer. Post capture processing was done in Adobe’s Lightroom 3 Beta using Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro for the black & white conversion.

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Hi, I don't recall a previous post, if true, welcome, if not, excuse my memory.

These look like great captures, but I think you tried too hard for the pop. They look very crunchy here, like they were oversharpened or something. If you share your post processing, especially the steps takens to increase the pop, I bet we could help.
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Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas. Nice day but I just can't get the "pop" I want... anyway here is one after last nights rain and snow at the higher elevations in the background.



Here ia a second one...



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I'd mistakenly posted this in the old thread. A shot from earlier this summer.

Canon 5D MK II, 17-40L @ 27mm f9

2 exposures manually blended together.

 
Outstanding, love the sharp grass lower frame. Your 17-40 is much better than mine.
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But you take what you've got and go with it. Used rebel 300d for the wide angle (18-55IS) and 40d for the telephoto on this trip. I think all are hand held. My thought was that if I cannot use MLU and 2 second timer "why bother with the tripod".
1
ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 14
Focal Length: 18mm



2
ISO: 400
Exposure: 1/30 sec
Aperture: 13
Focal Length: 18mm



3
ISO: 100 - I did use a tripod for this one.
Exposure: 1/4 sec
Aperture: 10.0
Focal Length: 25mm



4
SO: 100
Exposure: 1/50 sec
Aperture: 9.0
Focal Length: 18mm



5
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 10.95202
Focal Length: 18mm



6
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/251 sec
Aperture: 6.3039236
Focal Length: 18mm



Think of these next ones as landscape with wildlife. Which is what I was trying to accomplish.

7
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/251 sec
Aperture: 5.5959187
Focal Length: 29mm



8
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/40 sec
Aperture: 13.0242195
Focal Length: 41mm



Andy
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These are all great Dave, I can't choose a favorite here.
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