River silhouettes K5IIs, 50-135

These were taken a couple of days ago while on a coast walk at a local oyster farm. It was getting pretty dark, so I took with me a monopod, and upped ISO to 2000 at times, shooting straight into the remains of the light. The K5IIs always impresses for its capability in so many situations ...

Kind regards

britcam - Rich S

capturef22 wrote:

Really like the first two especially. Familiar, yet abstract and a nice range of tones to boot.

Thanks for posting.

Hi & thanks for the comment.

Working on abstracts out of the normal is a challenge that always has an appeal for me .... all helped by the ability to push and poke the files in PP ....

I like the way, the boats masts reflect in the water, the lone boat i like best.  

ASR45 wrote:

I like the way, the boats masts reflect in the water, the lone boat i like best.

Thanks Alan - I appreciate your thoughts ...  with these sort of images simplest is often best. That why I enjoy isolating the subject using a long zoom, and playing with the shapes & empty space ...

ASR45 wrote:

I like the way, the boats masts reflect in the water, the lone boat i like best.

Alan - I was caught out with a shorter FL than planned that evening (50-135 rather than 60-250) but the beauty of these sharp lenses, as you know, is that images can be cropped while losing very little IQ - if any. I took the 50-135 for its f2.8 speed, and that counted in the end.

I used a monopod that night with IBIS, plus ISO of around 2000 - hardly able to see the path in front of me but I came away with pics that just a few years ago would simply have never happened! This alone justifies the use for me of the top quality DA* lenses ..

britcam wrote:

ASR45 wrote:

I like the way, the boats masts reflect in the water, the lone boat i like best.

Alan - I was caught out with a shorter FL than planned that evening (50-135 rather than 60-250) but the beauty of these sharp lenses, as you know, is that images can be cropped while losing very little IQ - if any. I took the 50-135 for its f2.8 speed, and that counted in the end.

I used a monopod that night with IBIS, plus ISO of around 2000 - hardly able to see the path in front of me but I came away with pics that just a few years ago would simply have never happened! This alone justifies the use for me of the top quality DA* lenses ..

Rich, you are right being able to crop with these lenses are a real bonus, out of all the Da* lens i have the 60-250 is one i would not be without. I am getting the 18-135 lens again more for versatility of the lens, had it before my copy was a good one, not Da* quality but very good all the same.

Thanks for the feedback. Appreciated.