nma wrote:
Ton,
I like the image very much, the composition, the tones. Very nice. As a technical point, I question the use of f20 for a landscape, particularly with a 20 mm lens, due to diffraction blurring. If you question this suggestion, you could just make a 2nd image at say f6 or f11.
I've noticed this too with some of Ton's images, however having used that 16 MP sensor myself a few times, I must say it is quite friendly towards fine detail even at the tightest apertures. It is noticeably different than shooting at 36 MP, let alone 24 MP on a DX sensor! I'm not very scientific about gathering photons in buckets, and pixel pitch and diffraction calculations, but I just know what I see in my test images. If I were in a situation where focus stacking was proving to be too time-consuming, I wouldn't hesitate to shoot that sensor at f/20. Then again, f/16 would still be a bit sharper, as would f/11 or f/8, but by then you're really getting into focus stack territory, especially in a place like White Pocket where the foreground can be deceptively close to the camera...
Beautiful image, great sky, really like that sky, think the image could be darker, richer with a bit more contrast, as it is, it's a beautiful pastel image.
Brian
