Though I thought that technique was usually used on fashion models rather than on tripod heads.
Lovely shots down to the Rad Cam and Christchurch: I hadn't realised Oxford had a hill in so usefully photogenic a place!
I'd be intrigued to see how sharp a crop of just the Rad Cam dome or just the All Souls spire would look like, from a mixture of architecture and camera geeking.
That's really quite impressive, nice and sharp on the window-bars and the rows of balustrades, though I'm a bit surprised how grainy the background looks. Just the right height to line up with the Rad Cam as well.
My long lens is a little clumsy to carry around routinely, so I've tended to take my city pictures from the tops of buildings in the city itself; the nearest I have to your kind of shot is probably this one, which was taken as you can tell on a much less clear day. Faffing around with curves and the like doesn't seem to make that picture clearer without giving it really cartoony colourations.
Yow, that is an impressive lens. I'm using this lens.
And, now you come to mention it, it is quite impressive to be able to resolve a window frame probably 1" thick at around 2 miles away, just using my digital camera. :)
I could probably have improved on the sharpness by using minimal ISO (I think I was using 400), and putting it on the tripod. That was a handheld shot, and I just couldn't stop the camera shake at that magnification.
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Though I thought that technique was usually used on fashion models rather than on tripod heads.
Lovely shots down to the Rad Cam and Christchurch: I hadn't realised Oxford had a hill in so usefully photogenic a place!
I'd be intrigued to see how sharp a crop of just the Rad Cam dome or just the All Souls spire would look like, from a mixture of architecture and camera geeking.
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My long lens is a little clumsy to carry around routinely, so I've tended to take my city pictures from the tops of buildings in the city itself; the nearest I have to your kind of shot is probably this one, which was taken as you can tell on a much less clear day. Faffing around with curves and the like doesn't seem to make that picture clearer without giving it really cartoony colourations.
Re: Bokeh-tastic ...
I'm using this lens.
And, now you come to mention it, it is quite impressive to be able to resolve a window frame probably 1" thick at around 2 miles away, just using my digital camera. :)
I could probably have improved on the sharpness by using minimal ISO (I think I was using 400), and putting it on the tripod. That was a handheld shot, and I just couldn't stop the camera shake at that magnification.