Don't know what you mean by the tilting suggestion, Stefan. You want to have enough of the pebbles in the frame to tell that it is a beach.

And on the wait: I guess on a runway like that you could be in for a long wait...

Prieni

No one thinks anything of a mouse pad these days...

Thanks Aiki,

I do like the right side (with the thick ice), though. Just tried cropping off the top a bit but that doesn't really work either...

Maybe I just got the wrong angle of view here. It's still cold, maybe the sun will come out on the weekend for a re-shoot...

Prieni

Thank you all for your kind words!
i-Berg: That's a good idea, will give that a try.

Prieni

Somehow I slipped off the notifications (must have been work getting in the way of things). Now I see that you got your kit back. I'm relieved (as it was partly me to blame ) and happy for you. Now you can go out and get some long exposures in!

Prieni

Kris,

maybe it's that dark bit at the top. The colour is probably quite accurate, the sun had set. But maybe it would look better with a slightly different hue. Might be worth cropping the top a bit and play with the colours...

Thanks for the comments!

Prieni

Haven't uploaded any winter pics (still sifting through the bounty from Singapore). So here are a few:

Ice crystals
[IMG]http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t5/Prieni/Winter/_PRI8997fc.jpg[/IMG]


White capped groins
[IMG]http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t5/Prieni/Winter/_PRI9036fc.jpg[/IMG]


Storm troopers
[IMG]http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t5/Prieni/Winter/_PRI9042fc.jpg[/IMG]


To the horizon
[IMG]http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t5/Prieni/Winter/_PRI9049fc.jpg[/IMG]

The last three are long exposures If you happen to take a cool long exposure, why not submit it to the fortnightly competition?

Prieni

Yes, when you take the image with the FF sensor in the way that you have the desired end result on the central part of your FF sensor that has the APS-C size you are right. But this is saying that with the FF sensor you take the image that you want plus some bits around that you later crop away again. That's not what's happening in real life, is it?

I usually try to frame a shot so that minimal cropping is necessary (unless of course I see a nicer crop later on at home at my computer screen) and I assume that that is the normal modus operandi.

If you fill either the FF or the APS-C sized sensor with 'useful' image then the enlargement will have to be greater for the APS-C shot to end up the same size.

Prieni

Dan,

I used to use the same argument. However, the argument for the DOF changing is that the end product is a, say, 10 x 15 print. And to end up at that the APS-C image has to be enlarged more and therefore the circle of confusion, that originally has the same size on the sensor, is bigger for that enlargement.
The DOF-calculators take that into their formulae. That's why the DOF is different with the same lens on FF and APS-C (or smaller).

I'm happy enough with APS-C and don't long for FF. The resolution of the K20 is all I need, if anything I would like to see lower noise at the same pixel count and same chip size.

Prieni

This Picasa album has some photos I took with the *istD (!) from a helicopter in 2006. Yes, they weren't all brilliant but I got a good crop out of it.

In this Picasa album are plenty of shots with the K20D from a helicopter (the 50-odd ones before the first helicopter on the ground). This time I didn't need to fight reflections as this was one with the doors off.

The main question is what lens to take. I had my long zooms (70 - 210 mm on the first, 70 - 300 on the second) on, but for the second flight I think a shorter zoom would have been better...

Prieni