Tulip festival, Melbourne 2005

[Alex]

Family and I went to the tulip festival today. Perfect weather and a great day. I've never seen so many DSLR users as I have today . Here are a first few. Any comments/ critique are encouraged.

1. Kit lens, 18mm, 1/30s f20, CPL



2. Kit lens, 46 mm, 1/40s, f20, CPL



3. Nikkor 80-200 4.5-5.6, 150mm, f5.6, 1/1250s



4. Kit lens, 24 mm, 1/25s, f20, CPL



5. Nikkor 80-200 4.5-5.6, 150mm, f5.3, 1/2500s




6. Kit lens, 48 mm, 1/25s, f18, CPL




7. Nikkor AF 28mm, 1/5000s, f2.8




Thank you

Alex

[genji]

beautiful photos Alex!!!

the cpl really brings out the colour.

gotta get one!

but why are there no photos of the your wife among the fields of tulips??

[stubbsy]

Alex. Where do I start.

#2 is great, but I feel a tighter crop at the top might strengthen the image - possible crop horizontally at the roof line of the building to remove the tree and most of the sky to bring our focus more to the lovely curving rows of flowers.

#3 - like the colours and the boke is superb

#4 - I really like the angle here as it leads the eye wonderfully down the rows of colour to the windmill in the distance

#7 - a great example of artistic use of DOF to focus on the main subject. This is made much stronger by the matching colours in the background. That said I find the large OOF object to the left of the centre petal distracting. Reality can be so untidy sometimes This image is of particular interest to me since I'm thinking of getting a wide prime with specs like this as my next purchase.

Overall this is a collection of pics i'd have been proud to have taken. Thanks for sharing these.

[Alex]

Thanks very much for your comments, Tai. I have some of my wife and also mother-in-law in the fields, but they are for private collection Incidentally, there was a girl posing in the fields for someone else and I took her photo by accident - looks really good, but my wife hates it - go figure

Cheers
Alex

[Alex]

Alex. Where do I start.

#2 is great, but I feel a tighter crop at the top might strengthen the image - possible crop horizontally at the roof line of the building to remove the tree and most of the sky to bring our focus more to the lovely curving rows of flowers.

#3 - like the colours and the boke is superb

#4 - I really like the angle here as it leads the eye wonderfully down the rows of colour to the windmill in the distance

#7 - a great example of artistic use of DOF to focus on the main subject. This is made much stronger by the matching colours in the background. That said I find the large OOF object to the left of the centre petal distracting. Reality can be so untidy sometimes This image is of particular interest to me since I'm thinking of getting a wide prime with specs like this as my next purchase.

Overall this is a collection of pics i'd have been proud to have taken. Thanks for sharing these.

Wow, thanks for the support an encouragement, Peter. Even more thanks for the suggestions. I did a crop of No.1 as you suggested - improved heaps. Also the OOF object in No.7 - yes, agree absolutely, I had concerns about it before posting and obviously not for nothing, it does distract attention.

I got the 28mm prime as 2nd hand from a member on this forum. I find it really interesting to work with. It's not a "D" version but it still works well.

Cheers

Alex

[Killakoala]

Awesome colour. SOme of those would make murderous jigsaws

[kipper]

Sigh, wish I had a ballhead for my tripod. I'd be up to the hills in a flash

[Alex]

Thanks, Steve Darryl: What do you mean a tripod? All mine were hand held But many were with tripods. There was one D70 user with a 70-200VR - no tripod ...


Alex

[PiroStitch]

Alex, those are some great pics but my retinas are burnt now with all that colour

The last pic is my fave, very artistic