Swappo wrote:
Exactly my thought as well...
Looks like Sognefjorden where I lived for 1½ years.
Yes, Norway.
The first one is Geiranger.
The second is from the bus ride back toward Ålesund.
I think it was near Stranda. http://maps.google.com/maps/place?ftid=0x4616a2598dfc46a5:0x3669b77b2e7ab0dc&q=Stranda,+Norway&hl=en&ved=0CAwQ-gswAA&sa=X&ei=uCnDTvmAG-XZiQKJwfCFBw
Impressive, especially with the good reflections. The 2nd one could have been more interesting with more vertical space perhaps (more of a square crop).
"IMO that looks a lot better w/o the yellow building"
I like the original more, as the serenity of the scene is much more apparent and the story is more clear...ships enter the port from the right and passengers disembark to the quaint cottage at the left; and the rippled water and tyre wall complete the scene; the light right to dark left is engaging. The yellow building brings out light yellows in the hillside and its reflection.
Compositionally, a lot of people dislike a lack of frontal white space ahead of main moving subjects also. Finally the mountain and its reflection overwhelm the balance of the shot in the tighter crop, and disrupt the eye's natural movement across the frame. Can't please everybody, I guess. Nice photos, excellent use of the 35-70's strengths, thanks t_g.
Thanks for the analysis, Philip. I generally prefer the wider version as well, though
I can see it going either way.
The 35-70 really delivered on that vacation. I took it in place of the 24-70L and
there weren't many cases where I missed the autofocus. There were cases where
24mm would have been handy, but the wonderful image quality the Zeiss delivers at
35mm makes it a winner in many landscape situations.
I was pretty pleased with the performance of my 16-35L mkI also, though it's edge performance
doesn't compare with that of the Zeiss 35-70. Still, it acquitted itself quite well.
I agree with Philip that the first crop is more harmonious, but for me it just feels a bit tight vertically. What I actually meant is that I would have liked to see more of the mountain in the frame.
What a sweet spot, Tri, well done! And nice sharpening, I know that level of detail is hard to get right. Was there a sink plug at the bottom of the whirlpool? ;-)
The 100-300mm is very interesting to me, it seems to share the dense,'robust' colours with the 35-135mm zoom (and thank you to photoe and John Black for a few pages back, great photos), more than the more delicate and even 35-70 palette.
inglis, I shoot it on the tripod but it does have a future with a chip on Sony for SS, and I will do this for handholding, since it impresses at close range. David, who converted it to Sony mount, suggested one for 300mm but I think either 100mm or 135mm as it is best in that range. I'll post more big country 'scapes soon, from places no one goes.
