Warrior

[euston]

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HMS Warrior at Portsmouth

 

X Vario

 

 

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[stuny]

Gorgeous shot, lovely subject.

[Karl G]

Wish the rather annoying small craft would bugger off because this is a stunning picture of the ship and sky.

[pauledell]

I agree with Karl. A strong shot of the ship and the wonderful sky, the toning and even the boy at the bottom left but the small craft simply diminish from this fine picture.

 

Paul

[euston]

Klaus, Stuart, Karl, Paul, thanks for taking a look. I’m pleased you like it. I don’t mind the small boats. They help with the sense of scale, I think.

 

I’m coming to admire the X Vario more and more as I use it. It’s capable of taking a very decent photo when pointed in the right direction.

[digbyhp]

A terrific shot of my perhaps favourite ship at the Portsmouth museum. The Warrior was a peculiar hybrid of the sailing age and the new industrial iron ships - the Admiralty literally hedging it's design bets.

[euston]

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Thanks, Digby.

 

I agree - she's a must-see for anyone visiting the historic dockyard. Warrior was briefly the most powerful ship afloat but was soon superseded and never fired a shot in anger.

[wattsy]

I agree that the smaller boats add an important sense of scale and add compositional interest. I also like the inclusion of the small boy which also helps with scale and adds a nice human touch. My only quibble is that, looking at the masts and the building on the right, the photo looks like it needs a clockwise rotation of a couple of degrees (which, sadly, would probably crop out the boy).

[wda]

I have visited this ship and you have captured its grandeur very well. I do like your monochrome rendering.

 

Did you use the EVF and lens hood when taking the shot?

[euston]

Ian and David, many thanks for looking in and for your comments.

 

Ian, I think there is also perspective distortion from an unlevel camera. LR5 has a terrific levelling tool which would have dealt with it perfectly but, as you say, I would have lost some elements of the picture which I wanted to retain including, crucially, the tip of the mast. I do actually have another shot which I took at a slightly wider focal length. This one I was able to correct without losing the mast top but the lad had gone. I preferred the one I posted notwithstanding the leaning building. The clouds are a little better and the mudlark does add interest.

 

David, I use the lens hood but I don’t have the viewfinder. I’m one of those rare birds (on this forum at any rate) who prefers focusing and framing on a screen to using an EVF. Nothing beats a good optical finder but, if the camera doesn’t have one of those, I prefer the screen. Having said that, I may well get the Olympus VF-2 or the VF-4 if Leica ever make it usable on this camera. The tilting action will be useful, I think, for getting shots from a low viewpoint but, otherwise, I’m not keen.

[wda]

Euston, I passed it through LR5 and used the new levelling feature. The small correction on AUTO makes a tiny difference, does not crop the boy but fails to correct the leaning buildings on the right side. This could be done in PS if it is important to you. Frankly I think it is a stunning picture and your eye does not wander looking for peripheral aberrations.