Ran up to the Oregon gardens today to play with my new (used) Mamiya 645E, captured this with the D30 after first composing and shooting with the mamiya, I zoomed the D30 to the comparible focal length (80mm x .6 = 48 approx = 51 = 1.6 x 32mm) and adjusted the framing to match as much as possible... I'm worried I overexposed the 645 though as this was 1/2 stop under metered, but we shall see, slide film tells no lies
D30
24-85 @ 32
1/4 @ f22
-1/2 Exposure Comp.
ISO 100
Daylight, High Contrast/Saturation/Sharpening, little bit of USM in PS, otherwise untouched
Tripod/Polarizer/Remote Release
Nice peacefull image William, I like it. I'm wondering if this might have been a little stronger as a verticle, including a bit more above the upper tier of the waterfall...
Never thought about the vertical... there was some distraction above though, part of a trellis and a sculpture, which I thought would distract, so I framed them out, might have to try it your way the next time I go up... if I would have felt like playing around with the perspective a bit more, I might have been able to come up with a better framing all together...
Ah, just fix it in PS...
Well if it's as bad as the D30 overexposed, it will have highlights WAY blown, and probably unrecoverable.
Well I've never been there so I don't know what's up there, but it sounds like you made the right choice. Seems like a trellis would have certainly been distracting unless it was the subject...
If you ever want to go when I'm around, give me a yell and I'll head up with ya... it's pretty close to midway between PDX and here... I don't particularly enjoy it as much as the Japanese gardens, but there is different things, I haven't particularly found a lot of wider angle shots, but deffinately a lot of closeups on flowers or macro... They don't want "pros" but don't have a policy like the Japanese about tripods on the path only... in fact not many people wandering around to yell at you if you did wrong, just the volunteer gardeners usually too busy working...
Oh and it's pretty darn large, I was actually surprised how many flowers were in bloom, they seem to have done a good job with having something to look at every season... several different gardens, some sculptures/art/etc and some interesting architecture...
Discussion
4 repliesD30
24-85 @ 32
1/4 @ f22
-1/2 Exposure Comp.
ISO 100
Daylight, High Contrast/Saturation/Sharpening, little bit of USM in PS, otherwise untouched
Tripod/Polarizer/Remote Release
Ah, just fix it in PS...
Nice peacefull image William, I like it. I'm wondering if this might have been a little stronger as a verticle, including a bit more above the upper tier of the waterfall...
Never thought about the vertical... there was some distraction above though, part of a trellis and a sculpture, which I thought would distract, so I framed them out, might have to try it your way the next time I go up... if I would have felt like playing around with the perspective a bit more, I might have been able to come up with a better framing all together...
Well if it's as bad as the D30 overexposed, it will have highlights WAY blown, and probably unrecoverable.
If you ever want to go when I'm around, give me a yell and I'll head up with ya... it's pretty close to midway between PDX and here... I don't particularly enjoy it as much as the Japanese gardens, but there is different things, I haven't particularly found a lot of wider angle shots, but deffinately a lot of closeups on flowers or macro... They don't want "pros" but don't have a policy like the Japanese about tripods on the path only... in fact not many people wandering around to yell at you if you did wrong, just the volunteer gardeners usually too busy working...
Oh and it's pretty darn large, I was actually surprised how many flowers were in bloom, they seem to have done a good job with having something to look at every season... several different gardens, some sculptures/art/etc and some interesting architecture...