A few pics from Mount Wilson above LA. The first is the backrange behind Mt. Wilson (San Gabriel Mountains) and the second towards DTLA/The Ocean with Catalina Island in the distance.
Sometimes I pine for a 50 Lux ASPH. But then I remind myself what I read in Puts: where does the 50cron (not APO) beat the 50 Lux ASPH? F/2 close in. That surprised me. I sometimes hear remarks, "oh that 50 cron is not so sharp WO", and when I get out past about 25 feet, wide open, and I never seem to "get it" but if I stay closer in at F/2, it smokes.
Sometimes I pine for a 50 Lux ASPH. But then I remind myself what I read in Puts: where does the 50cron (not APO) beat the 50 Lux ASPH? F/2 close in. That surprised me. I sometimes hear remarks, "oh that 50 cron is not so sharp WO", and when I get out past about 25 feet, wide open, and I never seem to "get it" but if I stay closer in at F/2, it smokes.
who cares about sharp? the lux asph is much prettier at close distance.
yes, those shots are just off the historic highway by oneonta gorge (a narrow gorge that leads to the columbia). i actually didn't recognize the tunnel. i grew up in the area and was used to going to the gorge and waterfall before they opened the tunnel in 2009. i drove past it and didn't even recognize it now that they opened the tunnel and have done a better job of marking the area.
here's some pics through the gorge looking at people heading towards the waterfall.
g90:
(the dude in the olive sweatshirt and black backpack is a fellow alt shooter, had some sort of dslr + nikon E 50/1.8)
rokkor 24/2.8, the dude below spent so much time on his phone pic that he looks pretty crisp in a 1s exposure:
Photo taken at 3:19 PMJune 10, 2015 of a field of Cow Parsnips ("Heracleum maximum") along Skyline Drive, South River Overlook, Shenandoah NP, Virginia. Image taken with my tripod mounted A7r and my Minolta CLE MC 40mm f2 M-Rokkor lens, ISO 200, lens set to f11 for 1/200 second. Processed in LR6.
I love the variety on this thread. Great images, interesting places, inspiring techniques.
Grosvenor Arch is a unique sandstone double arch located within Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah. It is named to honor Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1875–1966), a president of the National Geographic Society, publishers of the National Geographic Magazine. (Wikipedia)
One of the things this thread is so addictive is that not only the pictures are great, I can also see a very diverse collection of pictures around different parts of the world. Thank you all for sharing.