July 2, 2011
Sinopah Mountain and Pray Lake in Glacier National Park, Montana
Sinopah Mountain and Pray Lake
Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
Canon EOS 1Ds Mk III, 24 TS II, 2-stop hard grad ND, 3-stop ND, 6 sec, f8, ISO 100
Image taken on July 1, 2011.
I wish I had been able to capture more of the clouds, but without gum boots or hip waders, camera placement was limited by the shoreline. So, I've been thinking about the Canon TS-E 17mm f/4L again. That lens would have let me include more of the fantastic sky, but without a DIY (do it yourself) filter holder, I would have had to make the image with two exposures, and I wouldn't have been able to blur the wave motion. So, I almost ordered a AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED because Lee Filters makes the SW150 Filter Holder for it which takes 150mm filters. However, at such a wide angle of view, the shift motion of the Canon TS-E 17 would sure be nice to control distortion — hmmm.
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| July 3, 2011, 4:55 AM by rjo |
Rather than buying a new lens, wouldn't it be cheaper to just take two images and stitch them together in post processing as a vertical pano (more or less) to get more of the sky included? Just a thought.
This response was edited on July 3, 2011, 4:58 AM.
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| July 5, 2011, 1:37 PM by James Hager |
It would be cheaper for a one-off pano as you suggest, rjo, but repeatedly stitching images would be expensive because time sitting at the computer is money. Plus, I prefer to capture an image as complete as possible in-camera, and I generally don't like the look of panos --- I prefer 2x3 or 4x5 aspect ratio images. |
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