On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Jack Davis <jdavi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Wife and I took another weekend excursion. This time to the north coast (CA) > and spent yesterday in and around Crescent City. > Late afternoon on a windy extremely chilly day I took another shot at Battery > Light. The DA 55~300 is a very light non-internal focusing lens. When racked > out to 300mm you can't breath near it when shooting. A peek through the > viewfinder showed it to be vibrating continually, but took 11 shots (cable > switch/2 sec delay) hoping for a moment's quiet. The link is to the only shot > that appears to have been nearly vibration free. I was stubborn enough to not > want to go larger than f/6.7 (wanted some foreground rock detail) nor higher > than 200 ISO. > This taken just as the sun was sinking into the Pacific through a thin > blushing persimmon tinted atmosphere. > > All comments welcome. > > Jack > > K20, DA 55~300, f/6.7, ISO 200, Bogen 3021 T'pod, Pro ball head, full frame > (no cropping) > > http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=450
Late in commenting, but I'm glad I looked. Spectacular photograph. Gorgeous composition, and that light is sublime. Someone else said it might be the best photo you've shown here, and I can't disagree with that. Thanks so much for posting. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
