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[Phate]

That does sound like a lot of fun though! Rather than take a shot, see how it goes, adjust and repeat the appeal is REALLY making you think about your image.

It's why I love primes. They force you to think outside the box

But seriously, stunning images dude!

 

[Felon]

Went down to Kimmeridge for the evening, I forgot it was half term and the place was packed! along with a bunch of other photographers, tide was rubbish too - but hey! still nice to get out

 

[D.P.]

That does sound like a lot of fun though! Rather than take a shot, see how it goes, adjust and repeat the appeal is REALLY making you think about your image.

It's why I love primes. They force you to think outside the box

But seriously, stunning images dude!

The downside to primes is they can make you lazy and instead of changing lenses you change positions which completely changes the perspective. A zoom lens will let you play with perspective and makes it much easier to have a good think about the photo. Getting up close and shooting at 24mm will give a very different photo to standing back and shooting at 70mm while if you have 35mm prime mounted you end up in-between and are much less likely to change lenses to an 85mm prime and stand back or go for a 24mm prime and get up close. Especially since many people who shoot primes don't go out with multiple different focal lengths to let them control perspective. They end up with some very boring photos and totally miss one of the most crucial aspects of composition.

 

[D.P.]

Went down to Kimmeridge for the evening, I forgot it was half term and the place was packed! along with a bunch of other photographers, tide was rubbish too - but hey! still nice to get out

Is that an amonite on the rock? I had a camping holiday as a kid in Kimmeridge, it rained pretty much every day. I remember fossil hunting and then going to a nearby tank museum!

 

[Phate]

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That depends entirely on the attitude of the person though. But lets not bog this thread into a prime vs zoom debate.

 

[Etheco]

Wow, Some absolutely cracking shots. Good work.

 

[Felon]

Is that an amonite on the rock? I had a camping holiday as a kid in Kimmeridge, it rained pretty much every day. I remember fossil hunting and then going to a nearby tank museum!

Yeah it is! the whole place is literally made from ammonites, you can't see it so clearly in the web version - but in the full size version there's hundreds of tiny ones in the foreground, it's a really interesting place,

 

[Felon]

Had a rubbish time recently, I've been out loads - but I've just repeatedly run into bad luck, clouded out/rained on every time, I went down to "Dancing Ledge" this morning with a bit more hope as it was a good forecast, however there was a giant chunk of cloud stuck there again so no decent light until it was too harsh, only came away with a couple of images, I'm going to America for a few weeks next week (work) so I'll be happy to have a good crack at Spring when it arrives

 

[Felon]

Had another crack at Dancing Ledge today, better tide and nicer light, also found a huge Ammonite the size of a dinner plate to act as a foreground anchor, some of the Ammonites there are gigantic - unfortunately most of them have been smashed up by someone's vain attempt to extract them, thankfully the one I found wasn't too bad,



Bit of behind the scenes action -

 

[Felon]

Been away on business these last few weeks, managed to get down to London for the evening, very very busy - lots of flowers on the bridge due to the incident week before last, but still managed to get some half decent stuff,

 

[voidshatter]

Beautiful pictures and nice work!

No offence here, but if you like long exposure, then the IQ260 is the wrong digital back. The best digital back is the 50MP 44x33 digital back (e.g. IQ250). Even a £1000 Nikon D800E can do way better than an IQ260 for long exposure.

The Rodenstock 32mm HR is also not a filter-friendly lens. Instead, the Rodenstock 40mm HR can take ordinary filters easily (and the same applies to Rodenstock 23mm HR as well when you needed wider angle of view).

 

[Felon]

wow! Very beautiful!!

Thanks!

 

[Bryan Kortez]

Wow! Amazing skills you have there! Inspiring, thanks for sharing.

 

[roccles]

Amazing photographs thanks for sharing I will definitely keep my eye on this post.

 

[Kyoshige]

Really nice shots here! It's also interesting to see discussion about medium format. I've only shot with a Canon DSLR and moved to the Sony A7 series so it's nice to be reminded of the other kinds of systems out there and pros and cons of each. I look forward to seeing more from this post.

 

[Felon]

Thanks for the kind comments,

Really nice shots here! It's also interesting to see discussion about medium format. I've only shot with a Canon DSLR and moved to the Sony A7 series so it's nice to be reminded of the other kinds of systems out there and pros and cons of each. I look forward to seeing more from this post.

Yeah - it all boils down to what you like working with, I shot 5x4 large format film for a number of years, I tried a 645D and a D800e and just never got on with them, I just found the quality of my work went drastically downhill, which sounds weird - as there are many people with D800e's who take much better pics than me, but for me I'm just so used to using proper movements with large-format style lenses, so it's a personal thing for me, I have to have something that slows me down and requires thought - otherwise I just end up uncontrollably filling cards with junk!

 

[Felon]

Went down to Corfe Castle last night, slept in the Jeep for a laugh - there was a good forecast of mist but unfortunately it didn't happen, but still the sunrise was nice, always nice to get out early on a Sunday morning



Also went through some of last weeks London pics and found this last pic of Big Ben quite funny - one of those dudes on a tricycle covered in LEDs went past and made for an interesting shot!

 

[RedTop89]

beautiful.

 

[Felon]

Went up to Wales over the weekend (Anglesey) to do a bit of camping, unfortunately the weather was a bit grim and I came back early - however I did have a half decent morning at Penmon lighthouse, the tide was a it rubbish which made it hard work trying to find foregrounds whilst keeping the image balanced, but I thought I came away with a couple of decent shots,

 

[Felon]

Been in the Dolomites in Italy these past few days, struggling with most stuff being closed or under 10ft off snow, but aside from that it's highly spectacular, I think I'll come back in the middle of summer when all of the lifts and roads are open, I've done about 25 miles of hiking with my 35lb rucksack, in 4 days so I'm pretty tired, a lot of it in deep snow - which I wasn't expecting considering it's almost May!