Maine pondscapes

DoctorIt

It's about time I posted some photos, eh?

I got my new Rebel XT last weekend, and thursday I headed up to Maine (via motorcycle) for a day of whitewater rafting on the Kennebec river. We camped right near the dam and beginning of the river, it was gorgeous. I woke up at dawn on friday morning and strolled around to try and get some real photos - maybe the first to come out of me in a long time!

Testing out the short end of this lens. I found some CA I'm not too happy with. The OOF parts of the photo seem distorted here, check out the upper right corner. I'm liking the camera, but I have serious reservations about the lens. It should be great, but I saw better image quality out of my 18-55 kit lens. In any case, this was at ISO 200, and noisier than I expected:



Luckily, it gets better - and I know that wasn't a landscape. :rolleyes But the better photos are... I strolled on to the pond and found a lovely early morning mist lifting off...







I'm fairly happy with this set. Again, wish I had done them at ISO 100, because you can detect that bit of noise. More than acceptable, and definitely better than the 10D or 300D I had, but I guess I got my hopes up a little too high.

This next shot isn't fantastic, but its the best example of some bad purple fringing I'm getting from this lens. I know the left side is blown out, but on top of that, the fringing is fairly apparent, more so at 100% or even 50%.

Dee

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I like the mist on the pond shots. How come they always look prettier in person though?

I'm always amazed at how much work is involved with any new camera. I am rather disheartened to hear about the noise you are detecting. It's like the only one major (besides having a long zoom and a cool macro lens) reason I'd think of upgrading -- besides I want more resolution!

I think I've read in enough places that purple fringing is a way of life no matter what camera and which lenses you are using! I even went back and looked at some of Phil's pics on dpreview galleries and looked carefully and downloaded a few photos -- and sure enough, Kodak, Canon, Nikon -- it's there, even on the "professional" cameras. So I know I'll not avoid the lovely purple (and green) "auras" on things.

But I am surprised at the noise!

But you know... think about it, Noise Ninja was made for pro cameras! That should be a clue

But I'm disappointed too that you are aware of the noise at ISO 200.

I'd be interested to hear if it's really the lens or the shooting conditions as your familarity with the camera continues.

System

I too was up in Maine and had a little noise problems with the misty morning shots. i shoot am shooting with a Olympus E-1 and this was at ISO 400 . If you look at the rocks in the forground you can see some problems. http://brothersmedia.smugmug.com/gallery/697500

Maestro

Those are some awesome shots! I particulary like the reflections in the water and mist.

Khaos

Very cool shot Media Brother. It's surreal. It almost looks like something created in Bryce.