Keith (M) Posted March 2, 2012 Share #1 Posted March 2, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) This morning at the Avebury Stone Circle. Always something new to photograph there despite it's age! M9 + ZM21mm Biogon f2.8. C+C welcomed. 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pauledell Posted March 2, 2012 Share #2 Posted March 2, 2012 Keith, Fine composition, depth, shadows from the backlighting, colors and sharpness. The mood created is terrific. A fine example of the use of this lens. Paul Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thapamd Posted March 2, 2012 Share #3 Posted March 2, 2012 Indeed, a beautiful shot, Keith. I love how much shadow detail you were able to retain/recover here. The composition is outstanding. To me the horizon looks a little bit tilted. It may just be the perspective playing tricks on me. What do you think? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicamann Posted March 3, 2012 Share #4 Posted March 3, 2012 Very nice..the bold shapes( just my take) would sit better if there was just a little more space left and right sides..giving a more "wide angle " feel...more spaciousness ..having said that however..I am not sure if there were lampposts , garbage bins or traffic signs that prevented that? Thanks for sharing Cheers, JRM Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith (M) Posted March 3, 2012 Author Share #5 Posted March 3, 2012 Thanks for the comments - appreciated. Indeed, a beautiful shot, Keith. I love how much shadow detail you were able to retain/recover here. The composition is outstanding. To me the horizon looks a little bit tilted. It may just be the perspective playing tricks on me. What do you think? The perspectiveI think, as the main horizon is formed by a curving and sloping earth bank. The traffic signs cropped from the RHS were vertical - which partly answers JRM's comment. Very nice..the bold shapes( just my take) would sit better if there was just a little more space left and right sides..giving a more "wide angle " feel...more spaciousness ..having said that however..I am not sure if there were lampposts , garbage bins or traffic signs that prevented that? The RHS has a busy road with fence and signs, the intrusion of which I have tried to minimise. The version here is a 10 x 8 crop (for printing/framing) and on the original there is more room to the left. I tried to optimise the balance without cropping into the trees too much but I take your point about the space and will look again at the original when I have a moment. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted March 3, 2012 Share #6 Posted March 3, 2012 Keith - Gorgeous!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest suilvenman Posted March 8, 2012 Share #7 Posted March 8, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Beautifully executed and composed, particularly with those trees standing guard on the frame edges over the sentinels. Very impressive photograph, Keith. Ken. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roguewave Posted March 8, 2012 Share #8 Posted March 8, 2012 Keith, a most excellent image. The watermark is the only flaw. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackDE Posted March 8, 2012 Share #9 Posted March 8, 2012 This morning at the Avebury Stone Circle. Always something new to photograph there despite it's age! M9 + ZM21mm Biogon f2.8. C+C welcomed. Excellent composition and great colors! Bernhard Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith (M) Posted March 8, 2012 Author Share #10 Posted March 8, 2012 Thank you all for the kind words - appreciated. The day before the shot was taken the morning was very misty and I was cursing that i was not able to take advantage. Woke early the next morning, peeped out of the bedroom window - whoopee, another very heavy mist. So, quick breakfast, jump in the car and drive slowly through the mist, having to peer through the windscreen into the thick mist. A few miles along comes the climb up onto the Downs and disaster - broke out into bright sunshine Luckily there was just enough lingering mist at the Stones to give a little bit of the atmosphere I had hoped to capture. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo Posted March 8, 2012 Share #11 Posted March 8, 2012 Very nice. I can see why you wanted more mist but it's still a good shot! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
e1k3 Posted March 10, 2012 Share #12 Posted March 10, 2012 Wonderful. Perfect composition. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith (M) Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share #13 Posted March 10, 2012 Gibbo & e1k3, Thank you und vielen Dank! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
otto.f Posted March 10, 2012 Share #14 Posted March 10, 2012 Very well captured indeed, but no one seems to bother about color shift and an Italian flag syndrome here? Something wrong with my eyes? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith (M) Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share #15 Posted March 10, 2012 I assume that what you are referring to are the pink tinges in the sky? Nothing to do with Italian flags, more to do with the changes I made to the original in LR3 & CS4. Since the firmware upgrade to v1.62, the colour-shifts along the left edge of images taken with the 21mm lens have been pretty much eradicated. Below is the original image, completely untouched except for exporting from LR3 as a 950 pixel wide .jpg. And yes, my sensor is really in need of a clean! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
otto.f Posted March 10, 2012 Share #16 Posted March 10, 2012 (edited) Has nothing to do with sensor-cleaning There are a few magnificent threads in this forum on the Italian Flag syndrome. There is no program that corrects this automatically, not for Zeiss lenses either? Btw I am not commenting on the artistic or esthetic quality of the picture here, my remark is of pure technical interest Edited March 10, 2012 by otto.f Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith (M) Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share #17 Posted March 10, 2012 We seem to be at cross-purposes here. My comment on the state of my sensor had nothing to do with colour shift etc. It was merely to forestall anyone writing about the number of 'dust-bunnies' in the untouched image. With regard to the so-called 'Italian flag', prior to firmware v1.62 my ZM 21mm Biogon f2.8 did, like most wide angle lenses, exhibit this phenomena. Since v1.62, it has been greatly reduced and personally I do not see at being a problem any longer. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iduna Posted March 10, 2012 Share #18 Posted March 10, 2012 Keith, a good shot, specially with the backlighting and the shape of the trees in correspondence with the clouds is great. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dachs Posted March 10, 2012 Share #19 Posted March 10, 2012 I would so like to be to this standard. BUT (you just knew it) if you shade the left tree off with your hand os a card, you get another really strong composition. For my education, am I wrong please? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith (M) Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share #20 Posted March 10, 2012 No, I do not think for one moment that you are wrong... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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