mountains and woods Alleghany County, North Carolina II (Please view large)

This was made near the headwaters of the New River in North Carolina,before it crosses western Virginia into West Virginia and then intothe Ohio River. Comments welcome.

--Lannie

Nice peaceful atmosphere. The horizon line is a bit too centred to my opinion, a bit less of the sky. Well done Landrum.

Patrick

Hi Lannie.,

A pleasant rendering of the country side.

I would not ever use any wide angle lens set to F/18 because of the limitations to a good lens performance capability . However, the aesthetic value of this mildly defined image does provide a nice view.

Best Regards my friend, Mike,

Mike, the exposure settings make no sense.  First of all, it was taken shutter priority, even though shutter speed cannot have been important.  Second, it was shot with the ISO set at 1600, at the same time that the aperture was very small.  I suppose that, once I set the ISO (probably for some deer shots in woods moments earlier with the other lens, the 70-200 f/2.8), the aperture had to come down automatically to avoid over-exposure.  I really have no idea what happened, except that I was swapping lenses and bodies occasionally.  I don't even remember why I was doing that, either.  It has been almost four years ago.  Perhaps a perusal of the original sequence of shots could reveal some clues.  I do remember that I had somehow managed to bring only one card, and I was swapping that, too, between two bodies (5D and 1Ds II).  Talk about lack of planning. . . .  I just grabbed both rigs and headed out the door, given the lateness of the hour.  By the time I got to the New River a few minutes later, the shadows were too long to give me what I had been planning to get.  It was one of those last minute decisions to get into the mountains in the late afternoon.  I'm lucky I got anything.

 

Patrick, I know that the sky is not to everyone's taste, but the alto-cumulus canopy at the top was so nice that I did not want to crop it out.

 

--Lannie

Hi Lannie,

I have had days like you my friend.

I have gone out shooting in full daylight with my ISO set to 3200 from the evening before.

No wonder that my 1/8000 second shutter speed could not get a reasonable exposure at F/2 !

Since those times, I have worked around the "mistake issues" by getting second cameras to use for various tasks. My low light level work, like astrophotography, is now done with a second camera preset.

My daylight camera is usually set to ISO 200 most of the time.

While my memory is still functioning well and I do know how to quickly change any camera setting to the proper inputs ; having a second camera body also assures me that I will have a back up if ever it becomes required, too.

Best Regards, Mike

was that a mistake?  f/18 will cause A LOT of diffraction blur.  the blur circles will spread over roughly four pixels.  best, j

 

p.s.:  i see the comments now.  that's happened to me too.  j

 

p.p.s.:  and the road is very good.

Technicals aside, this is a beautiful scene; a calming atmosphere.

Amy