Kallur

An old shot. I wish I had a better body, I wish I had a better lense, I wish

I didn't shoot JPEG only... but anyway I'll never forget this amazing

place. Thanks for your comments and ratings !

Beautiful and lonely.

Well it's still a beautiful shot !

Funny reading your comment. I was going through old photos last week-end and was thinking exactly the same thing ...

 

 

Cheer up, Still looks Fab !

 

Isabelle

Nice scene!

very good composition and beautiful colors in the picture, great work.

 

Best regards Tore

When enlarged, this picture truly gives you a sense of the place as being spectacular, grandiose. It almost gives you a vertigo. It's been a while since I felt that...It's the imbalance from the stability of the left that feels safe versus the chasm and the ocean on the right which pulls on you as if you were standing by a very high vertical drop. Unsettling but exhilarating. I have the 10-22 EFS, it's not a bad lens, very contrasty but quite good for a small format wide angle and not cheap either (I paid like $750 for it) I think this is the best picture you have in your portfolio...the 2 men in a boat is not bad either but the comment about old lens and poor equipment might been meant for it instead of this one) Regardless, I absolutely love this picture. I am putting it in my favorites folder and give it 7/7

Thanks to all of you for your kind words.

 

Pascal : you're right, I should not complain too much about the EFS 10-22. But I've never been completely satisfied with this lense, especially in term of sharpness. On this picture I had to increase selectively the sharpness during the post-processing to get this result... which is quite good, I agree. Now that I bought a 5D Mark II, I'll need to buy another wide angle lense anyway. The choice is hard, from the 17-40 to the TS-E 24 II. Thanks a lot for your encouraging comments and best regards, Alain

Are you ou French btw? Alain is a very French first name. It's funny you should talk about the tilt and shift. Dennis Aubrey who is on PN and whom I met on a couple occasions swears by that type of lens (he takes a lot of church insides). I think he had the zoom you mentioned and just bought the 24mm prime. He says it's absolutely great...he has a 24x36 sensor like you. You should ask him. which one to get..he will have educated and valuable advices. Me I will stick to the aps-c format for budget and portability reasons. Since I do not enlarge to poster sizes anyway, I do not need all the horsepower and cost associated with it except for rare occasions. Actually, I moved from a 30 D (still apsc)to a G10 which has a tiny tiny sensor but still gave pretty decent pictures if taken in bright situations. If you talk to an Hasselblad user, this is a joke of course but so would the Nikon d3 or canon 1d, 5D, etc... so I see all this as relative and I have decided to buy the rebel T2i very soon. (a cheap and light 7D). I was debating over the samsung NX10 or even the fujifilm HS10 because I really value size (I used to carry 4 lenses around and ended up not going to a bunch of remote areas because of it so I switched my priorities) but decided to stick with canon since I already own lenses. Now I am back to my old greedy self again and plan on getting the 70-200 L lens ( in F4 and without IS)...Hopefully, this will be a good and livable set up.The 10-22 EFS, the 100 macro, maybe the 50mm prime too and the 70-200. For traveling, I'll leave the primes at home. If you have recommendations Alain, I am all ears.

Thanks for your comment. I'm from Switzerland. I had a look at Dennis Aubrey's portfolio. Excellent work ! TS lenses are supposed to be the best optics for architecture. For landscape photography they can give you outstanding results (see this for example : http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1029&message=34594209 ), but they are VERY expensive and not easy to use. I'd like to find a test with EF 17-40L vs EF 16-35L II vs EF 24L II vs TS-E 24L II...

 

Before getting the 5D Mark II, I used to travel with a 40D, the EFS 10-22, the 35L, the 85 1.8 and the 135L. A quite heavy package... I guess your choice is much lighter. With the 10-22, the 50 1.4 or 1.8 and the 70-200 you cover a large focal range with a very good image quality !

Alain,  As you said of my image, Wow!  What a shot!.  This is how I react when I see this image large.  Absolutely fabulous shot!  Like with your Iceland waterfall image, the scale here is defined by the dwarfed lighthouse on the ridge of this precipice.  Congratulations on a most successful image - even in mid-day light.

I must add, although cameras and lenses help, it's not the equipment that matters; it's what we see in our heads and how we transpose that mental image in the viewfinder.  This is why pictures are created, not taken in the snapshot sense.  Again, nice job.

Came rappelait quelque chose!