A picture for another time
Here's a frame I made last week at the same time I did the photo of the bridge. I was not prepared to make this shot as I was underlensed and didn't have a tripod with me. This was shot with a 200mm lens and cropped a bit. Next time I'll have to keep a 300mm and a tripod in the car.
posted by martin at 8:58 AM
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Nice concept. That's some brutal grain there though :). Yeah, I'd say it's a bit under-lensed. If you ever want to borrow my 500mm Nikkor Reflex, just let me know.
--WT
Yes, grain is bad. I'm going to try softening it in Photoshop.
I wish I could take all my equipment with me but it's too heavy. I guess next time I'll plan my shots and bring what I need.
This acutally brings up a good point. When you go on a trip such as Yosemite, how much equipment do you bring? My feeling is the more equipment you bring, the less mobile you are.
I'm a minimalist when it comes to carrying equipment. For my Yosemite trips, my kit has probably been different with every trip (and I've been there a lot :) ) I usually do not carry a tripod. Before my digital equipment, I pretty much settled on a kit consisting of: 24mm, 35mm, and 85mm prime lenses, plus one of my F bodies.
For our last trip to Yosemite, I carried:
Nikon F4 w/24-135mm
Nikon D100 w/15-30mm
And of course, the two zooms were interchanged. We were there for a friend's wedding, and I wanted to shoot some B&W XP2 film, so I brought the F4. That rectilinear 15mm made for some interesting shots on the F4. I may post one that I shot of the wedding ceremony using the 15-30mm at 15mm on the F4.
Buying the D100 caused me to try a couple of new zooms, the 24-135mm and the 15-30mm. I needed the superwide because of the 1.5x crop factor of the D100. While these modern zooms are very good, I find that I still prefer shooting with primes.
--Warren
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