Friend and fellow photographer Kevin Finn McNeal and I chased a giant thunder cell from Kanab Utah, to the North Rim, Grand Canyon, Arizona and were richly rewarded with maybe the greatest moment of light I have witnessed in 14 years of concentrated shooting. Great photographer Floris Van Breugel suggested a possible 4X5 crop as an alternative version, to which I agree (and know many here will too) and I will try that later, but I tend to like extremely long sweeping shots.
Sony A7R2
Canon 11-24mm@11mm (my favorite lens in the world)
f/8
200ISO
1/200th
Lightning Trigger
Single shot.
Hand held.
Conservative adjustments.
This one, I'm not really getting. I think the use of 11mm is gratuitous and not working here; a horizontal 2:3 or 4:5 shot at 24 or even 35mm would have been fantastic. At most, a vertical 4:5, or a vertical at 24-35mm.
I love the perspective and think the crop here works great. I'm a sucker for shooting vertical and the ridge line draws your eye in throughout the scene perfectly IMO.
I like this, I think the 11mm is perfect for this view. I will say that this looks even better on my iPhone then my desktop, maybe that's from the conservative processing?
matthewsaville wrote:
This one, I'm not really getting. I think the use of 11mm is gratuitous and not working here; a horizontal 2:3 or 4:5 shot at 24 or even 35mm would have been fantastic. At most, a vertical 4:5, or a vertical at 24-35mm.
I have to agree with this. All the action is happening in 1/4 of the image. A 24ish mm horizontal shot would be great.
