Bruny Island Beach North
This is the view North of the Bruny Island Beach. A 3 shot stitch with my 17m Tilt Shift lense that I have grown to love to pieces!
How are the rocks in the foreground of this shot!
Waycool formations and fantastic colours as well.
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Those rock formations are really cool. 🙂 What makes you like the 17mm TSE so much Mark?
Jamie
Hi Jamie,
For one it is sharp right to the edges unlike the 16-35 which I found I had to stack focus in order to not get soft edges.
For shots like this one where you need wide to get the detail you want close up in the foreground, stitching with the 50mm doesn’t cut it. Note the Southern Image I posted before done with a 50mm in Portrait mode with an ND.
Didn’t get the details anywhere near as much as with the 17mm Tilt Shift.
I did some shots facing south with the tilt shift as well so I might post those to show you the difference.
For water fall shots where you sometimes take ages to set up your tripod level, with the Tilt Shift a 3 shot stitch is so easy and it is perfectly lined up.
The Tilt gig is cool tofor straightening out warping when shooting building etc.
The Willow shot I did at Port Arthur was a 2 shot Tilt Shift Stitch in Landscape mode that enabled a perfect square shot with the detail I was looking for.
OK, I know…you asked for a good reason…not an excellent one eh…and I gave you 7 good reasons!!! 🙂
Cheers,
Mark
Hey mate, great detail, you also just answered my question regarding the 2 lenses. I was off to get the 16-35 and a 50mm. I will get the 50mm which is a great lens for portraits however for a wide angle landscape lens as well as architecture the 17 TSE seems to be the ideal choice.
Indeed Adrian
The only drawbacks for the 17mm is you have to be really careful of the dome lense and you can’t use filters, but apart from that I love it!
Cheers,
Mark
Great answer mate. Extremely helpful. Thanks.
Glad I could be of assistance Jamie!
Mark nice shot and great commentary on that 17mm lens. Thanks for educating me (unlike Fletcher who’s busy talking about himself all the time!).
Hey Tom…pleased to hear that I can impart some knowledge to the master himself!
Thanks for the comment as well mate!
Very nice dramatic angle and composition, quite nice! Didn’t know you had the 17mm tilt shift lens, lucky bastard , I want one! 🙂 Look forward to seeing it in action, bring it on 🙂
Yeah Bo have had it since the Bright shoot…lovin it!
If you ask nicely I might let you play with it in PNG!
Cheers,
Mark
pretty please…with sugar on top 😀
You can then play with my 100-400mm Canon L 🙂
You’re on bud!
woohooo 😀 Christian will be cursing his Phase One for locking up, re-booting, refusing to work in hot weather while we create APPA gold all the way!
Yeah mate…that’s for sure!
Off to Pirates Point to get the sunrise there…fingers crossed!
Cheers,
Mark
Hope you’re talking about the lens Mark.
Indeed Jamie!!!
Cheers,
Mark
liking the wide angle pano!
Thanks Matty…you can stay at the top of the class then!
Cheers,
Mark