Looking at trees and Big Meadows
Tripod mounted Leica R 280mm f4 Apo Telyt lens with Leica R 1.4X Apo Extender and Sony A7r camera
ISO 400, probably effective aperture of f11, 1/320 second
Expsure corrected +0.12 Stops; processed in LR6
June 10, 2015
At Big Meadows, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
Found Niagara Falls on our path to New York (from Michigan via Canada) last weekend. We hadn't been to Niagara before, but we slept at a hotel an hour from Niagara and got up before the crack of dawn. I thought it would be cool to see sunrise at Niagara Falls (Canadian side). Parking is free before 8 AM, too.
Anyway, we made it and there were only a couple of people there (though, the guy with the tripod was shooting the A7RII and 16-35). I didn't realize I'd be going to Niagara until the night before when I saw it on the path the next day. I had no tripod and now meaningful wide angle lens. So, the FE 28 is what I used. I placed my elbows on the railing and tried a slow shutter (.5 seconds). I was pleased with the results:
I rented a car on this trip, which stretched over 2,500km .
Here are 3 more images from Bryce on the first day/night. We tried to capture the MW, which was there but for whatever reasons didn't come out that well. On some longer shots, the star trail was very much noticeable. I should have taken some star trail images that night but I was too tired after 11 hour drive and I had only a very short sleep the night before. It was cold at that elevation (almost 3,000m) and very windy, too. Brrr...
One more from this morning. I'm currently working on a comparison of a few good 35's. I switched to the Contax Distagon for this one due to it's very nice close working distance.
AGeoJO wrote: I rented a car on this trip, which stretched over 2,500km .
Here are 3 more images from Bryce on the first day/night. We tried to capture the MW, which was there but for whatever reasons didn't come out that well. On some longer shots, the star trail was very much noticeable. I should have taken some star trail images that night but I was too tired after 11 hour drive and I had only a very short sleep the night before. It was cold at that elevation (almost 3,000m) and very windy, too. Brrr...
Love that first shot, Joshua - quite a place. John
ps. haven't heard of a car being stretched that long before!
navmannz wrote:
Love that first shot, Joshua - quite a place. John
ps. haven't heard of a car being stretched that long before!
Thank you very much, John and yes, we are on the same boat, I haven't either .
This squirrel ventured out on the roots of a tree at the rim's edge. I was hoping that it would go further out but too bad it didn't. This is a crop and a significant one at that just for the heck of it.
Manuel and I went to photograph the Walt Disney Concert Hall before we left for the trip to Utah/Arizona and Death Valley. The Voigtlander 12m and Batis 18mm did very well here, I would say.
A few people shots with the FE 55mm/1.8 on the A7II. (This was one of the rare occasions when the FE 55 made itself useful. For some reason that FL just doesn't seem to mesh with what I shoot.)
I rented a car on this trip, which stretched over 2,500km 
