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Another shot with the 70-300G zoomed and cropped

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Another shot with the 70-300G zoomed and cropped

Postby Geoff on Mon Dec 27, 2004 1:26 am

All comments (good and bad) welcomed. Changed levels in PS and cropped/zoomed in a bit too. The physical distance from where I was shooting (in a straight line) would probably be approx 2km's. Cheers.

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Postby Kristine on Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:15 am

Hi Geoff

Great shot - I did not realise that the 70-300G was able to shoot from such a distance.


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Postby nodabs on Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:16 am

nice :) that looks good from along way away. How much of a crop is it also did you stop down to squeeze abit sharper image out of the lense?

any info would be appreciated :)
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Postby Geoff on Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:16 am

Kristine wrote:Hi Geoff

Great shot - I did not realise that the 70-300G was able to shoot from such a distance.


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I did cheat a bit in post processing and zoomed in and cropped in Photoshop :) Sssssh! I won't tell anyone if you don't! :wink:
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Postby Geoff on Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:20 am

nodabs wrote:nice :) that looks good from along way away. How much of a crop is it also did you stop down to squeeze abit sharper image out of the lense?

any info would be appreciated :)


Thanx nodabs...I THINK (from memory) it is zoomed in 100% in PS, I haven't cropped THAT much from it, just a few houses/bush in the foreground and a very ugly antenna thingy. I think I shot it at about F16 with a shutter speed of 1/200sec. Hope this helps,


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Postby nodabs on Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:23 am

Geoff wrote:
nodabs wrote:nice :) that looks good from along way away. How much of a crop is it also did you stop down to squeeze abit sharper image out of the lense?

any info would be appreciated :)


Thanx nodabs...I THINK (from memory) it is zoomed in 100% in PS, I haven't cropped THAT much from it, just a few houses/bush in the foreground. I think I shot it at about F16 with a shutter speed of 1/200sec. Hope this helps,


Geoff.


lol that came out wrong that shot of a building from along way away, looks good :) that looks very nice indeed for a 100% crop nice job
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Postby MattC on Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:28 am

Nice shot Geoff, even Nikons cheapest lenses are pretty decent if used correctly. I assume that you used a tripod.

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Postby Geoff on Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:36 am

mattco6974 wrote:Nice shot Geoff, even Nikons cheapest lenses are pretty decent if used correctly. I assume that you used a tripod.

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Nope - this was handheld!!!
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Postby MattC on Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:41 am

Nope - this was handheld!!!


Now that is impressive!!!
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Postby Geoff on Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:45 am

mattco6974 wrote:
Nope - this was handheld!!!


Now that is impressive!!!


Thanx Matt - i sharpened it once in PS too.
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Postby MattC on Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:53 am

Looks like you have your hh technique down. Normally I would expect to see camera shake at such a distance which no amount of sharpening will fix.

Your Sydney to Hobart shots posted elsewhere are HH also?

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Postby Geoff on Mon Dec 27, 2004 3:00 am

Yep..I was annoyed at myself as I left the tripod in the car (and I'd just climbed seven flights of stairs) so I wasn't too keen to go back down to get it..hahaha.
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Postby MattC on Mon Dec 27, 2004 3:28 am

I cannot argue with that - what a stupid expression!! I would not want to be climbing up and down stairs.

I would not mind seeing your HH technique, but seeing as you are 2000km away that is not particularly realistic. Mine is pretty good, but 2km gives me shakey images. It might just be that I rarely use a long lens. The last time I threw the 70-300 on was about two months ago. I regularly shoot 50mm at 1/15s with no shakes. Different shooting styles.

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Postby endymion on Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:13 am

Geoff,

You've done well to take some a long telephoto shot handheld. Congrats! I think cropping out the partial building on the right and the terra cotta roofs in the foreground would strengthen the image by removing distractions to the building.

Its a very interesting building, by the way. What and where is it?

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Postby Bruno on Mon Dec 27, 2004 9:02 am

nice geoff! :wink:
i don't think i have ever seen a photo of that building like that before.
And the ED doesnt seem to bad either,might have to reconsider it.

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Postby Geoff on Mon Dec 27, 2004 9:14 am

endymion wrote:Geoff,

You've done well to take some a long telephoto shot handheld. Congrats! I think cropping out the partial building on the right and the terra cotta roofs in the foreground would strengthen the image by removing distractions to the building.

Its a very interesting building, by the way. What and where is it?

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Hi Endymion,
The building is called St.Patricks college, it was a seminary and opened in 1889. As the number of seminarians declined they decided to lease it to the International College of Tourism for a period of 30 years, I think ten of them have passed already, maybe more. It is located in Manly (Sydney). The grounds and inside are just as beautiful as the outside, I was lucky enough to attend a wedding there last year, it was great! Thanks for your interest! :)
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Postby kipper on Mon Dec 27, 2004 10:52 am

Remember what the likes of Peter iNova say. For crisp images for handheld use atleast 1/focal length. So if you're at 300mm use atleast 1/300mm. In this case Geoff must of held off the coffee for a week :)
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Postby Geoff on Mon Dec 27, 2004 4:20 pm

Hehehehe...my profession requires me to have a steady hand at times :)
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Postby ru32day on Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:07 pm

Great shot. I particularly like the way you managed to get so much of the shot in focus. This DOF (I think) is not so easy with the lens at that length and, as others have commented, even harder handheld! Was it easier because you were a fair way away from the subject, or did you make some special decisions in your settings to preserve the DOF through the image?
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