Recent content by Eric Swenson

Careful with the "Clarity" slider on the second shot (generally the fastest way to make that kind of haloing artifact). Love the moments you captured :)

It's present in the photo, but only slightly, and not of a major concern to anyone. Actually, I know professionals who do use the Samyang 14mm f/2.8 as a fast, very wide angle prime on FF. It may be a cheaper lens, but it's as sharp as the impressive Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 AF-S. And when you're...

Normally I find it's just Barrel distortion as you suggested, but with the Samyang 14mm f/2.8 there's the barrel distortion outward with a slight... curve again at the end. If you look at it like a graph (for lack of a better way to describe it), most barrel distortion (for the most part) would...

I have, and read multiple reviews plus heard it from multiple owners (only for FF use though). You only notice it if you know where to look. Look at the horizontal bars across the ceiling. That's the only place it's visible, though once I noticed it was there, it did continue to distract me (or...

While I love the wide-angle shot and perspective, the moustache distortion that often characterizes photos with the Samyang 14mm f/2.8 on FF is (at least to me) quite noticeable, and somewhat distracting... And yet an absolute nightmare to remove. :( I can't wait to see what you can do with the...

Honestly don't remember exactly what he had in front of it, but it wasn't cheap either. Something contax and something else as well. I once ran into a guy who went on a family trip to Alaska and bought a brand new D3x, 105mm f/2.8 Micro VR, and 300mm f/4 as well as one other lens. That's it. I'm...

The real pain of this shot is that we didn't actually stop in the region at all, so this was through the car window, while we were moving at 40 mph. :( I honestly really really wish we'd stopped there, at least for 15 minutes, but we didn't as we drove from Kona to Hilo.

Thank you! :)

Thank you! It was quite a nice holiday, though I became awfully jealous of this one old chinese man who was using a 5D Mark II, 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM II and 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM and yet had almost no clue of how to operate his camera... =_= I also ran into my first digital back. One guy was...

Yeah I wish I'd gotten more pictures of the area in #2, it was simply stunning. The grass was so green it honestly looked like it was from an oversaturated HDR, but it was real! #5 actually wasn't hard to expose, simply due to the nature of my Sony A55. Sometimes the camera is an absolute pain...

Thank you :) I still have things to fix with these and a lot to learn... I was frustrated to come home to shots I thought would turn out nice and find out that I'd missed some things in composing them that I hadn't noticed as I'd rushed to take the shots. I guess that just happens sometimes. :(

I wish I could have gotten more turbines, as there were two full rows of them... (one old and one new) and there was an angle where I think it could have been interesting, but to get to that angle I'd have to tresspass past barbed wire into ranch land, so it wasn't an option. :(

Thank you! The shot of the turtle is completely un-cropped, which is rare for me as I generally crop my shots at least a slight bit.

Thanks! Yeah the mountain is Denali (Mt. McKinley). I honestly can't stand trying to look at it on the screen though, since the details are too small to make out on any monitor I own. This wasn't the final version I printed, just a version I could easily downsize for web viewing.

My Four Favorites of the Year I know I've posted at least three of these here before, not sure about the fourth. #4: "Irony" #3: "Tranquility" #2: "Midday Denali" #1: "Beauty of Years"