Chris Dodkin
West Coast Correspondent
Here's my 4 shot haul from this morning's trip to Oceanside - laid out on the light-box.
Here's the first shot - looking south towards Carlsbad
This was a 3 minute exposure at f/22
As you can see, the colors in the sky come through much stronger with the Velvia, but the shot is underexposed, probably due to the rather severe reciprocity failure of the Velvia 50.
It's hard to calculate exactly, so I'll just have to learn by trial and error.
Here's the second shot - my first vertical panoramic with the G617
I like the format, I just need to figure out good comps to use it on.
Again I've lost some foreground detail due to under exposure - same issue as #1
Shot #3 was similar to shot #4, but shot #4 has better dawn colors, so here it is the full moon over Oceanside Pier:
This was 6 seconds at f/22
I love the way the Velvia picks up the lavender tones in the twilight lighting - 6 seconds doesn't give any real issues with reciprocity failure (approx. 1/2 stop), so the exposure is pretty much bang-on what I expected after spot metering the sky, and using zone to get my camera exposure time.
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Here's the first shot - looking south towards Carlsbad
![12007078545_ba55a196d0_h.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm4.staticflickr.com%2F3733%2F12007078545_ba55a196d0_h.jpg&hash=793b912e399d4b8e94d81f6b55788c1a)
This was a 3 minute exposure at f/22
As you can see, the colors in the sky come through much stronger with the Velvia, but the shot is underexposed, probably due to the rather severe reciprocity failure of the Velvia 50.
It's hard to calculate exactly, so I'll just have to learn by trial and error.
Here's the second shot - my first vertical panoramic with the G617
![12007360463_36a312bfc0_b.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm4.staticflickr.com%2F3791%2F12007360463_36a312bfc0_b.jpg&hash=9404243e87894645910700564655dda0)
I like the format, I just need to figure out good comps to use it on.
Again I've lost some foreground detail due to under exposure - same issue as #1
Shot #3 was similar to shot #4, but shot #4 has better dawn colors, so here it is the full moon over Oceanside Pier:
![12007432644_d40c9d7c0f_h.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm4.staticflickr.com%2F3729%2F12007432644_d40c9d7c0f_h.jpg&hash=b13d4660c952d13a4edabc2f97f9a7ca)
This was 6 seconds at f/22
I love the way the Velvia picks up the lavender tones in the twilight lighting - 6 seconds doesn't give any real issues with reciprocity failure (approx. 1/2 stop), so the exposure is pretty much bang-on what I expected after spot metering the sky, and using zone to get my camera exposure time.