Nikon 16-35 first shot!

[Hamish Gill]

Got this today .. YAY!

since i bought it basically to do interior and architectural photography i thought is take the first shot of my living room

this is the un-pp'd photo...
this is at 17mm
25th sec (VR is going to be VERY useful on this lens for what i want it for)
1600iso
f/7.1

post pp (not sure if it looks a touch warm ... its hard to tell on my laptop screen

as you can see i have corrected much of the barrel distortion associated with this lens at its wide end ... straightened too ...

Im a happy boy with my new lens i can tell ya!

 

[Rudi Venter]

Great lens Hamish, I know you are going to have lots of fun with it!

Congrats!

 

[Hamish Gill]

Yeah, right on ... its gonna be a lot of fun next week in wales ... im going to portmeirion ...

 

[Mark Grant]

Looks great, I guessed correctly when this photo was posted on the AOS forum.

There is something nice about a new lens, makes you go all creative.

 

[Tim Pindar]

Nice lens.

Nice looking speakers too - what are they?

 

[Hamish Gill]

Looks great, I guessed correctly when this photo was posted on the AOS forum.

There is something nice about a new lens, makes you go all creative.

You did, and your right! I'm gonna have a Lot of fun with it next week!!

 

[Hamish Gill]

Nice lens.

Nice looking speakers too - what are they?

Adam Tensor epsilons

http://www.adam-audio.com/en/home-audio/products/epsilon/description

They changed my perseption of hifi .... I have lost the upgrade bug

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Very nice looking shot - I bet you're well chuffed with the super wideness

Not sure about your fireplace though - how well do dogs burn exactly?

 

[Pete Askew]

Fire dogs Eh?!. They just provide a bit of background warmth Chris.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Ha, I like that.. Background warmth ... Very good!
I want to get a wood burner of some sort, but the guy who did the survey said it would likely be a big job reinstating the chimney for it's original use ... I belived him but felt some investigation wouldn't go a miss, so unscrewed the panel of ply that blocks what's above. Unfortunately above it there is a right mess! Whoever blocked it off did so with a load of rubble then squirted what looks like an entire can of expanding foam up there! It's disgusting what people felt appropriate to do to this house in it's 100 years... I spoke to my brother who is a property developer, he said he sees it all the time ... Madness!

Anyway, yeah, tw wide angle is ace! I already have a 17mm tamron sp, but it's a bit crap with digital, it has a habit of chucking loads of nasty purple flare into shots! No such problems here! And Blimey this thing is sharp! It also seems to give a good sence of depth to images, which I like! Happy days! I now feel confident I can do the interior and furniture based work I have over the summer! Vr is going to be very useful too I think, I read somewhere of a chap getting passabley sharp images at 1sec ... I'm not sure I believe him, but it's certainly interesting to here! This was shot at 25th no problems ... It should make the sort of thing I want it for pretty easy really!