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Spending a few weeks in Noo Zooland. Had an hour or so this morning to trapse down the local road near Timaru and take a few picktures, chasing the cloud formations. I head to the top of the south island on Monday, via Tekapo and Mt Cook. Hopefully the weather will oblige.

Timaru002 by Ozimax, on Flickr

Timaru005 by Ozimax, on Flickr

Timaru006 by Ozimax, on Flickr

I like the contrast and vibrancy of these photos. Great work. Did you use a polariser or any kind of ND filter to get the great blue/white contrasts?

petermc

petermmc wrote:I like the contrast and vibrancy of these photos. Great work. Did you use a polariser or any kind of ND filter to get the great blue/white contrasts?

petermc

Yes Peter, circular polarizer on Fuji 18-55. A touch PP with Niks.

These look great, but having clicked through it seems like you have not managed to get quite enough DOF.

aim54x wrote:These look great, but having clicked through it seems like you have not managed to get quite enough DOF.

F11 from memory. It's times like these that I would really like to go back to my 5Dii. Maybe a D810 on the horizon?

ozimax wrote:

aim54x wrote:These look great, but having clicked through it seems like you have not managed to get quite enough DOF.

F11 from memory. It's times like these that I would really like to go back to my 5Dii. Maybe a D810 on the horizon?

I would have thought that at F11 you should have had enough DOF, but it appears not. I am not sure going full frame will solve this (less DOF for the same settings and actual focal length will be longer, reducing DOF again). It may be time to work with hyperfocal distance.

It is the last image that I have been able to access an full size version and been able to see the DOF issue, it also reveals some bugs on your lens or some dust bunnies.

Maybe shooting with the hyperfocal distance set ?

They are excellent! Lovely colours and compositions in all.

The colours just pop in all of them and I'm digging those greens in the second. I get the impression there's been too much crunchy midtone contrast added to the sky (particularly the clouds) tho (in Nik?)

Remorhaz wrote:The colours just pop in all of them and I'm digging those greens in the second. I get the impression there's been too much crunchy midtone contrast added to the sky (particularly the clouds) tho (in Nik?)

Yep, NIKs is the culprit.

aim54x wrote:

ozimax wrote:

aim54x wrote:These look great, but having clicked through it seems like you have not managed to get quite enough DOF.

F11 from memory. It's times like these that I would really like to go back to my 5Dii. Maybe a D810 on the horizon?

I would have thought that at F11 you should have had enough DOF, but it appears not. I am not sure going full frame will solve this (less DOF for the same settings and actual focal length will be longer, reducing DOF again). It may be time to work with hyperfocal distance.

It is the last image that I have been able to access an full size version and been able to see the DOF issue, it also reveals some bugs on your lens or some dust bunnies.

Cameron I've found the culprit (culprit being word of the day for me). In my haste to beat the coming clouds/darkness, I screwed the CP filter onto the UV filter. It's most probably not a good idea to shoot through two levels of glass filtering, especially when one wants to preserve details.
I'm about to post some photos from yesterday's trip to Lake Tekapo, where only one level of filter (and sometimes none) was used.

ozimax wrote:

aim54x wrote:

ozimax wrote:

aim54x wrote:These look great, but having clicked through it seems like you have not managed to get quite enough DOF.

F11 from memory. It's times like these that I would really like to go back to my 5Dii. Maybe a D810 on the horizon?

I would have thought that at F11 you should have had enough DOF, but it appears not. I am not sure going full frame will solve this (less DOF for the same settings and actual focal length will be longer, reducing DOF again). It may be time to work with hyperfocal distance.

It is the last image that I have been able to access an full size version and been able to see the DOF issue, it also reveals some bugs on your lens or some dust bunnies.

Cameron I've found the culprit (culprit being word of the day for me). In my haste to beat the coming clouds/darkness, I screwed the CP filter onto the UV filter. It's most probably not a good idea to shoot through two levels of glass filtering, especially when one wants to preserve details.
I'm about to post some photos from yesterday's trip to Lake Tekapo, where only one level of filter (and sometimes none) was used.

That would do it!