Mar 31, 2008, 11:01
All local views taken yesterday with the 16-35mm f2.8L
First, looking SW from Selsley Common, near Stroud. Still enjoying things at 16mm f22.
I last photo'd this at harvest-time last summer; here now at 22mm f22, from close to ground level.
Finally, went the other way here: wide open at f2.8 with a focal length of 23mm:
Skies: for the first time in years, I've shot without a polariser, for the first time just putting a UV on, for element protection as much as anything else. This has had several benefits: gaining another stop and a half of light, getting even skies with wide angle work...angles this wide pick up the uneven nature of polarised light; most of all, I guessed that the increased contrast and saturation might not be necessary with this Canon L glass: it seems to have its own "zing" in terms of these anyway.
These "look" tweaked..but I just did straight conversions from raw to jpeg at Standard Everything, doing half the amount of pp sharpening than I was used to.
I simulated some red filtration on the mono one, but really that was about it.
First, looking SW from Selsley Common, near Stroud. Still enjoying things at 16mm f22.
I last photo'd this at harvest-time last summer; here now at 22mm f22, from close to ground level.
Finally, went the other way here: wide open at f2.8 with a focal length of 23mm:
Skies: for the first time in years, I've shot without a polariser, for the first time just putting a UV on, for element protection as much as anything else. This has had several benefits: gaining another stop and a half of light, getting even skies with wide angle work...angles this wide pick up the uneven nature of polarised light; most of all, I guessed that the increased contrast and saturation might not be necessary with this Canon L glass: it seems to have its own "zing" in terms of these anyway.
These "look" tweaked..but I just did straight conversions from raw to jpeg at Standard Everything, doing half the amount of pp sharpening than I was used to.
I simulated some red filtration on the mono one, but really that was about it.
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