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I was fortunate enough to get a 12-24DX
at first i was quite auspicious about the results of this lens, being a wide angle lens heavily affected by barrel distortion and chromatic abberation.

Despite that I have learned to love the lens, the distortion at 12mm has opened up a whole new world for me being wonderful, weird and wide.

I figured at 12mm f8 was the sweetspot, i went through to f4 and f16
this is a top left 100% crop of the original 12MP image, where most of the optical distortion is noticable.



Notice how the scene looks more dramatic at 12mm


Then off to shoot the opera house
14mm f8, notice how the opera house sails look bigger than they are.
Bigger version here
http://www.zeduce.org/images/experimental/12_24mm_1_big.jpg


Another angle at 12mm f/8, at this point i'm loving the dramatic distortion.


Creative use of a flash unit fired multiple times during a 20 second exposure at 12mm f16, preview cropped
bigger version here:
http://www.zeduce.org/images/experimental/Ghost_of_Carthona.jpg

Hi Wendell,

did you use the strobe on the SB (800?) for image 2 ?
Great ideas and I like the photos.

Cheers,
CD

Great pics Wendell, I just unwrapped my new tamron 11-18mm
this morning havent had a chance to fully play with it yet, if you dont mind my asking how did you achieve shot two?
its awesome! were you writing something or just random patterns?
Craig

christiand wrote:Hi Wendell,

did you use the strobe on the SB (800?) for image 2 ?
Great ideas and I like the photos.

Cheers,
CD

Hi Christiand and VRBoy

I used the strobe button on the sb800 whirled around, then took out my torch went freestyle then fill flashed twice, i learned long ago to write anything legible while in front of the camera you need be be facing a mirror, as you have to write backwards - which is difficult, so now i just scribble freestyle

I love the last shot, it looks fantastic. The blad headed man (dunno if it's you or not) suits the environment perfectly!

Nice job

Great shots, Wendelt. I really like the last one.

Alex

Wendell, looks like you have had a much more creative play with your new lens than I did with mine
Love the perspective on the Opera House sails in the 2nd of the two. Almost makes it look a cathedral!
The last one is a very interesting idea and I really like the results.

I'll chime in on liking the last one as well. . . great idea and well exposed considering the # of flashes, etc.

Cool stuff wendell.
I want to tag along with you and see how you do that freestyling.

rokkstar wrote:Cool stuff wendell.
I want to tag along with you and see how you do that freestyling.

No problem always willing to get people involved in such midnight marauding.
One day i hope to have a group of urban light graffiti poets spaned across sydney freestylin' such activities should keep my mind off lens lust before i go away on holiday

lets organize a time

anyone else who wants to tag along is welcome

Creative imagery! Keep it coming.

Great shots Wendellt!

I particularly like the creative and dramatic effect of the second image - keep it coming