Thanks, Fernando! The background is a major reason I posted this. Much appreciated remarks.
Jack --- On Sat, 11/21/09, Fernando <fer.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Fernando <fer.p...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: PESO: Battery Point Light > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 7:37 PM > Hi Jack > > I couldn't do it before, I saw this one at work and wasn't > able to > comment. Amazing shot, great light and composition; what I > like the > most is the mix of a contrasty main subject and the hazy > background. > PDML book worthy. > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > > > -- > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
