Quiet Water

[E B]

After spending the night tent camping in a high mountain pass in Banff NP, I ate an early breakfast and started down the mountain in search of pictures. This image is one of my early sightings, captured at 09:21 hours local time:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/TMAUR/Test%20Photos/P9171399.jpg


Camera: E-1
Lens: DZ 14-54mm zoom at 14mm.
Shutter speed: 1/500 sec.
Aperture: f9.5
WB: Auto
Metering: ESP
ISO: 400

[laughingbear]

Snow..... Tent.... TENT???.... Shiver <grins> How comes your photos could go straight into a book? Stunning.... I suppose you do photography since quite a while....

Love it! Coffee from that water tastes probably 10 times better than the usual Tap water....

[E B]

Snow..... Tent.... TENT???.... Shiver <grins> How comes your photos could go straight into a book? Stunning.... I suppose you do photography since quite a while....


Thank you. Yep, I've been shooting cameras for nearly 50 years. I'm still learning. I suspect that means I learn slowly.



Love it! Coffee from that water tastes probably 10 times better than the usual Tap water....

Well, at least there's no chlorine in it. I suspect the psychological affect of being away from civilization is enough to give an added zest to everything I eat, see and do. I really look forward to and enjoy my expeditions regardless of whether I get any good pictures or not.

[AnnF]

Gosh, what a lovely sight. It brings a tear to my eye because it brings out some emotions of what could have been for me. Thank you for sharing your captive memories.

Ann

[Pontiac005]

Absolutely beautiful! I hope you have considered framing that one. Obviously you specialize in landscape photos as you have outstanding results.:cool:

[laughingbear]

on a second thought.... not knowing what is left and right, but may be the 11-22mm would have been an idea? It seems that the lake/river? is expanding further to the left

[E B]

Absolutely beautiful! I hope you have considered framing that one. Obviously you specialize in landscape photos as you have outstanding results.:cool:

Thank you. Yes, I do prefer landscape photography. It gives me a good excuse to travel to beautiful places and I can be sure that my subject matter will be there when I arrive, unlike wildlife photography. Now, if I could just control the weather.

[E B]

Thank you.

[E B]

on a second thought.... not knowing what is left and right, but may be the 11-22mm would have been an idea? It seems that the lake/river? is expanding further to the left

This particular image was shot at 14mm focal length, and that is unusual for me. You've brought up an interesting subject. Back when I was shooting film exclusively, I found that using a wide angle lens to capture landscapes didn't give me the best result because the level of detail needed to capture wide angle shots was beyond the capability of the films that I was using. I finally gravitated to using a Horseman Technical camera with a 2.25x2.25 inch negative size, and that larger format finally allowed enough detail to be captured so that I could use wide angle lenses for landscape work. Now that I'm using digital for landscapes, the message remains the same. Digital sensors don't capture enough detail for me to be happy about using wide angle lenses on landscapes. My normal landscape shot with a digital sensor is carefully designed to limit the amount of detail in the image so that the digital sensor can better cope. Typically, my landscapes are shot from a tripod with the camera at least five feet off the ground to preclude a close foreground. I usually use focal lengths in the range of about 20-30mm on the E series cameras, that is normal to short telephoto, again helping to eliminate any close foregrounds and also to limit the angle of view included in the image which reduces the resolution requirements for the sensor. So, boiled down, this wide angle image is quite unusual for me but it works technically because there is no close foreground and the water has no fine detail to be captured.

What do I normally use wide angle lenses for? Not landscapes. Wide angles lenses for me are an opportunity to get closer to my subject and/or to work in close quarters such as is found indoors.

[laughingbear]

:) ....you shoot with a horeseman and envy my flippin puter?.... you can have my puter and I take your horseman ;)

Thank you Bob, interesting insights from someone who does outstanding landscapes in deed.