New Zealand colour

[ozimax]

Hi all. I am back in Noo Zooland for the next month. Had some time off last night (new year's day) to visit the Hamilton Gardens in, funnily enough, Hamilton. I gave the 5D Mkii a workout and these are a few of the results, all taken with the 24-105, handheld:

This image is unprocessed except for re-sizing. It looks even better up large.

[Geoff]

Beautiful, vibrant and crisp!! Great work!

[Kakodrilo]

These images are great! Vibrant and full of color!

[gstark]

Oz,

You are a cruel man, aren't you? Making the 5D sing like that.

Exposure is spot on, wb nailed, saturation is just right ...

I especially like the third of these; your use of DoF to isolate the foreground, but yet having the colour as you have in the background, has produced a memorable image.

[surenj]

Making the 5D sing like that.

Absolutely!

Beautiful soft light and composition esp in the last. You should print these LARGE on canvas Ozi. Perhaps a square crop for the first one.

[biggerry]

You are a cruel man, aren't you? Making the 5D sing like that.

ohh yes he is, inflicting that pain on us

Those colours are stunning...and straight from the camera.

As suren mentioned, print to canvas and this would suit any feature wall from corporate to home!

[ozimax]

I appreciate the comments all. I particularly like the first one. At 100% it is pin sharp. I am sure it was a complete fluke. I definitely will be looking at enlarging this to A1 or bigger and hanging it somewhere. BTW, it was taken in the Indian section of the Hamilton Gardens, which is surely one of NZ's finest. The place is astounding and worth a visit.

[Bindii]

Hi all. I am back in Noo Zooland for the next month. Had some time off last night (new year's day) to visit the Hamilton Gardens in, funnily enough, Hamilton. I gave the 5D Mkii a workout and these are a few of the results, all taken with the 24-105, handheld:

Well I hope you found the time to have some 'Fush and Chups' while you were there! I lurve, lurve, lurve New Zealand.. lucky for me (well lucky for him actually ) I've hooked up with a Kiwi fella so that means loads more trips back to the land of the Long White Cloud..

Fantastic colour in these.. and well done of the perspectives and DOF too.. each is a smasher!

[ozimax]

Thanks Sue, yep, we've had 6 fish meals so far this week, including a mountain of fresh caught snapper this evening, what a life....

[Matt. K]

WOW!

[TC]

3D effect!

[zafra52]

Very nice!

[ozimax]

3D effect!

Although I think the above images may have been complete flukes on my part, the 5d Mkii definitely brings out a kind of 3D effect in some images. Maybe I'm just imagining things? I am certainly enjoying myself being in NZ at the moment.

[Murray Foote]

The last one also crops down quite neatly (from the top) to two flowers and a bulb, which I think works better....