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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.

Hi Geoff

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


Cheers
Kristine

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

Kristine wrote:Hi Geoff

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


Cheers
Kristine

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!

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,


Geoff.

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

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

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Matt

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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Matt

Nope - this was handheld!!!

Nope - this was handheld!!!

Now that is impressive!!!

mattco6974 wrote:

Nope - this was handheld!!!

Now that is impressive!!!

Thanx Matt - i sharpened it once in PS too.

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?

Cheers

Matt

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.

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.

Cheers

Matt

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?

Cheers,

Bruce

nice geoff!
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.

cheers

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?

Cheers,

Bruce

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!

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

Hehehehe...my profession requires me to have a steady hand at times

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?