First Attempts With New Lens

[Brian Moore]

Tokina 11-16 f2.8 and Canon 7D

First order of business on Christmas Day was to establish protection for my Precious. Sentries at their posts. (The front element of the lens was about 6 inches from the number 15. This is a JPEG, straight oot o' the camera.)

My Precious now safe,...I went and got some other foties:

Hallway. I was almost right next to the picture of Meg on the right. (JPEG, straight oot o' the camera.)

Tucker's motor. (Hand held JPEG, straight oot o' the camera.)

Street looking toward the south. (Hand held, JPEG from RAW image darkened to make it look more like it looked in real life. It's too green, noo that I see it on RPF via Photobucket.)

 

[Kev Pugh]

OOooh Love it, you gonna have such fun with that Brian Love em all...

 

[Pete Sykes]

Top Class first shots Brian.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Excellent, Brian. Looks like you are having fun with it already.

 

[Brian Moore]

Thanks for the comments, chaps. I absolutely love the lens. The distortion is obvious when you see perpendicular lines toward the edges of the frame, and if you take a close up of a human being you can make then quite freakish in appearance (big heed, wee skinny legs). But,...I LOVE this lens!

Thanks again, Kev, Pete and Rob.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

go wide or go home!

 

[Hamish Gill]

Or in Brian's case - go wide in the home
very nice Brian, I'm sure you will be very happy together!

 

[Davie Hudson]

go wide or go home!

Amen Brother !!!

 

[Rense Haveman]

Ah, that is going to be fun! I like these UWA lenses!!
Great shots. I like the hallway shot....

 

[Brian Moore]

Go wide or go home? As Hamish remarked, I'm going wide in the home: Photographically due to my new lens and physically due to the raisin scones and our annual clootie dumpling. (Yum yum!)

Thanks everyone,...I think me and this lens is the start of a beautiful relationship, in some ways not unlike the one I have with the "great chieftain o' the puddin' race." (I'm eating it up!)

 

[Pete Askew]

Looking good Brian. And I trust you've weighed that bottle to a least the nearest mg!

 

[Brian Moore]

Looking good Brian. And I trust you've weighed that bottle to a least the nearest mg!

Thanks Pete. Nae fear, Pete, naebody has touched that bottle since I placed the The Black Watch on sentry duty.

 

[Beth Carter]

don't you love how big the whisky box looks in the first. really nice photos, you're going to have some fun with this one!

 

[Brian Moore]

don't you love how big the whisky box looks in the first. really nice photos, you're going to have some fun with this one!

I DO love how big the whisky looks. (Oh, if only 'tweren't an illusion!)

Thanks for the comments, Beth. Much appreciated.