Critique Welcomed Yet Another Beach Photo (yabp)

[Keith Hollister]

D800 & 16-35VR (@16mm) this time ...

 

[Peter McCullough]

Love the colours and composition Keith! How do you like the 16-35mm Nikkor lens? I've only one lens for my D800 at the minute.

 

[Keith Hollister]

The 16-35 is a great lens - sharp, reasonably compact, not ridiculously expensive and can take ND filters without paying an arm & a leg for the Lee adaptor for the 14-24 (which I used to have). The VR is handy too for interiors where you can't use a tripod.

Unless you shoot at f/2.8 all the time, the 16-35/4, 24-120/4 & 70-200/4 are a great kit for a D800 or D600. I have the 70-200/2.8, but if I were doing it over I would get the f/4 version for weight reasons.

I had the f/2.8 zooms (14-24, 24-70, 70-200) and swapped the UWA and normal zooms for the f/4 VR versions - no regrets.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Your contrails seem to complement your images, whereas mine just screw it up. What powers you have! Another beautiful image. Keith, I'm glad you made it here!

 

[Keith Hollister]

Far be it for me to defend contrails (the bane of landscape photographers), but sometimes you just have to embrace the enemy.

Actually, I think the operative concept is "better to be lucky than good"

 

[Peter McCullough]

I really need to get out more with my newly purchased D800 and C.Zeiss 21mm f/2.8 glass, I'm struggling to have a decent work/life balance at the minute, tricky working too MANY 13hour nightshifts which really gets in the way of my personal photography.

Depressing ok.

 

[Keith Hollister]

I was thinking about the 21mm ZF, but decided to stick with the 16-35. The Zeiss is a great lens, though.