Tenn.Jer wrote:
Beautiful, Edd; I especially like the second - the row of rocks is the key to the composition, in my humble opinion...
Jerry
Thanks Jerry , if I don't have to travel this week, I will be running the kayak down to the dam where those rock outcroppings are. The weather back here has been weird again; all of 25*F at my place last night. Hopefully the remaining leaves will really turn soon, but most of my maples, ash, and red oak have dropped at this point...
I enjoyed your posting(s) of the family trip and your early morning paddle...looks like great fun!
Will: Great to see your image work...really nice job with the pano(s). How's things' in the land of McCormick Place and Hyde Park (the best jazz clubs in the country)?
Thanks for the kind words, Edd; it's good to see how autumn looks around your homestead again...and John T, your views from Switzerland are lovely - including those bizarre white punkins ...
The thread is flooding with fantastic landscapes in the last couple of pages as the colors spread...
Here are a few from the Natchez Trace area today...all done with the 24-105 f/4L and a CPL.
Michael, a spider hung that there on a long, long silk, dancing in the sun and the breeze. Chased it around like a fool, falling leaves are probably easier. Nice textures in your frosty leaf.
Jerry, it's pumpkin season here, every imaginable variety in restaurants, roadside stands, festivals, contests, doorsteps, on the menus too. Camera finds them irresistible.
Aaron, I have the 70-200 II also, but I still use the 135 regularly; the larger aperture and its associated BG blur are in a class alone...Those pumpkins above are a perfect illustration; look at the thin slice of focus and how it shows up on the sidewalk and burlap (straw?) underneath the pumpkins...and the pumpkins in the upper right corner of the frame - just gone, into amorphous yellow softness...Gorgeous
The zoom is probably equal in sharpness (I don't do many formal lens tests), but the 135L has the advantage in unobtrusiveness; more than once the prime has escaped notice and given me some nice candids. I love them both, and would Hate to have to choose one or the other. If you lived in Tennessee, I'd loan you my 70-200, just to whet your appetite .
Jerry
I could not resist finding a little color this week before Missouri turns orange and red. I was shooting a 1DX with a 100mm f2.8.
Thanks for all the great shots I have had the pleasure to view on this thread!
Greg
Db, that's a very good start , particularly with an 800mm combo which, BTW, I would use, as well as 800L, for BIF only if I am truly desperate.
(As a side note, the longest combo I'd use for planned BIF would be 700mm (i.e. 500 f/4 + 1.4xTC MkIII). Naturally, 600 II (bare) and 400 II + 1.4xTC are also very good BIF tools.)
