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Path to the Sea

Path to the Sea

This is a re-work of a photo taken in 2/2012, south of Ventura, toward McGrath beach. The day was cold and windy, sand flying, tripods blowing over. Bright, crisp light.

The original had the horizon at midline. Today, I cropped off part of the upper sky, giving a more cinematic crop, and retouched it a bit. To me, the most important part of the picture is the footprints, and the secondary part is the angle of the dunes.

If I were to take this picture again, it might be interesting to get really low, focus on the prints, have the dunes above the horizon, and the ocean a flat line in the distance. DOF could be to infinity – or not.

For the Naiad

For the Naiad 1500 Signed (1 of 1)

I went to a local park after work today, just to play with a lens I haven’t used in awhile: Tamron 70-300 f4-5.6 Di. The purpose of the walk was to use the Df and the lens, handheld, to see how well the vibration reduction worked. To begin with, I shot at iso 100, just to see how well the vibration reduction worked – it’s okay, but the lens would benefit from stable subjects at this iso. At 400 iso, detail was lost, but longish exposures were not too horrible handheld. This shot was taken at iso 400, 140mm, f5.6, 1/30 sec. Overall, the combo of the lens and camera leaves sharpness a bit to be desired, but under the right circumstances, I rather like this lens.