Winchester Cathedral second visit - 85mm
Posted 03/05/2011 - 19:26
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A very fine set of images. Great use of that lens.
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Andrew
"These places mean something and it's the job of a photographer to figure-out what the hell it is."
Robert Adams
"The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE."
Ernst Hass
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Posted 04/05/2011 - 05:39
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Great shots. Love the lighting!!!
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Posted 04/05/2011 - 08:05
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As above. A very good set. No. 1 for me.
(karma mechanic-Selling England by the Pound-The Battle of Epping Forest).
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(karma mechanic-Selling England by the Pound-The Battle of Epping Forest).
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Too far from a shore.
Posted 04/05/2011 - 08:23
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Lovely. Low DoF usually just seems to shout out QUALITY to me ! It does here.
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Posted 04/05/2011 - 09:55
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K10D wrote:
(karma mechanic-Selling England by the Pound-The Battle of Epping Forest).
That's me!(karma mechanic-Selling England by the Pound-The Battle of Epping Forest).
Thanks for the comments - I plan to return to the Cathedral another day with the Sigma 10-20mm. The focus problem was caused by me having the camera in 'Focus Priority' so needing to switch to MF for the Samyang and then forgetting. I've changed it to 'Release Priority' and the Samyang can be manually focussed and the shutter released with the switch in AF mode, so that particular mistake won't happen again.
I'm wondering whether to make an extra donation to the Cathedral. What I have in mind is a feather duster on a very long stick
Posted 04/05/2011 - 16:29
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a nice set. like #1
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Posted 04/05/2011 - 18:21
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Great set, and I agree with the others, the first one is superb!
Posted 05/05/2011 - 14:25
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Very interesting! 4 is the pick of the bunch for me - have you considered cropping the top off to a square? Or at least desaturating the greens?
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Posted 05/05/2011 - 22:17
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thoughton wrote:
Very interesting! 4 is the pick of the bunch for me - have you considered cropping the top off to a square? Or at least desaturating the greens?
I'll have a play. I've got a Dell laptop and a separate Samsung 213T monitor, and in spite of my calibration efforts they don't agree at all, partly because the laptop color balance depends largely on the exact viewing angle of the screen. They were probably better before I tried to get them to match Very interesting! 4 is the pick of the bunch for me - have you considered cropping the top off to a square? Or at least desaturating the greens?
This is squareish - it may need some tonal adjustments to bring up the lower part.
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Unfortunately the Sigma shots except one are all slightly out of focus
Using the Samyang requires Manual Focus, and I'd accidently left it in that mode when putting the Sigma on. Through the viewfinder it looks like it is in focus, and there is an autofocus noise, but the shots are not quite sharp enough to use. Drat and double drat!
There's just one that's accidently in sharp focus:
Anyway, here's a few using the Samyang 85mm trying to make use of the very intense beams of light that come in some of the high windows... all at f/2 and all hard to focus exactly:
and another go at my favourite from the first session, but the 85mm is just a bit too tight to get the framing I wanted:
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