rolubich wrote:
Very instructive Peter, thank you.
Is a tripod with just free rotation around the vertical axe an option? A monopod can help as well to keep up and down movements under control? Or in some way they limit the precision and the fluency of the panning?
Thank you all for likes and comments to my recent posts.
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yes, very instructive Peter. Great work with the supposedly humble 75 - 150mm.
ramkumar999 wrote:
I am loving this photo. Something about it seems to hit the right spot in my mind. May be its Ganesha himself - the remover of obstacles.
Thank you Ram. There is a lot of this kind of statues all over Bali. The whole place is truly flooded with spirituality.
Around the "Rijksmuseum"
One of the main tourists attractions in Amsterdam and always very busy.
The 50-135 is a very nice walk-around-lens. Good color, very sharp (even wide open).
Last image are street performers, but this time it was Classic Music. They were playing in the corridor under the museum and the corridor and it sounded like a full orchestra.
rolubich wrote:
Very instructive Peter, thank you.
Is a tripod with just free rotation around the vertical axe an option? A monopod can help as well to keep up and down movements under control? Or in some way they limit the precision and the fluency of the panning?
A tripod is not going to help. Your two feet need to be the center of rotation, not the camera mount. In my experience, the most successful panning technique requires a few seconds of tracking. Behind a tripod, you'd have to walk in the opposite direction to track the car around the back of your camera.
Most of the shots I post are 90 degrees or more pans following the car from first coming into view to the area I plan to shoot, which is ideally a long way after you pick up the car, allowing you to synchronize your viewfinder with the direction and speed of the vehicle.
Unfortunately not. The night we were gonna go to see the Kecak suddenly a tropical rain storm drained Ubud...it continued for three days. So it was not possible
Appreciate the comments and the likes. I'm taking a break from the trip because yesterday I went to the Lakeland Farmers Market..
Maybe ... there were five stands with veggies, fruit and other produce similar to what I saw in Staunton. None were as good as Leighton's stand and none were sold out. Of the five stands two were home grown/local farmers with the others having bar-codes stuck to the fruit and veggies. Might as well shop at Publix.
Here's my rendition with the last shot with a daring bit of PP.
The focal reducer (a Zhongyi Mitakon Lens Turbo II) that I ordered for my X-T2 arrived in this week's mail, and I managed to get out with it yesterday to a spot in central Vancouver Island called the "Hole in the Wall" (for a reason elucidated by the fourth image below). For the rather mixed bag of photos below, I used the 135 f/2 Ai-s (twice), the 28 f/2 N (twice) and the 16 f/3.5 Ai.
