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Canon Image Challenge | all galleries >> Challenges From The Past >> 2014 Challenges >> CIC 125: Framing >> Exhibition > PalmTreeFrame
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04-SEP-2014 db.

PalmTreeFrame

Perpignan, France

As I've done meanwhile for nine years,
I spent the first week of September
in Perpignan at the world's biggest
International Festival of Photojournalism:
«Visa pour l'image» (www.visapourlimage.com)

Taking «innocent» pictures in town
relaxes one's soul after seeing
so many graphic testimonies
of war, crime, poverty and misery!

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Canon EOS 6D ,Canon EF 24-70mm f/4L IS USM
1/500s f/13.0 at 35.0mm iso200 full exif

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Daniel Bollag22-Sep-2014 21:47
Glad you like it, Melanie. Thanks for taking the time to comment! ~ db.
Canon Image Challenge20-Sep-2014 21:20
Wonderful, love the colors and content. ~Melanie
Daniel Bollag13-Sep-2014 12:15
What I wrote about distortion is of importance to me because I shoot a lot of architecture; not, of course, to a sports photographer like your friend in Kansas City. And to you, Paul?? This is the question I suggest you'd ask yourself before buying «the kit lens». On another note: what I said about the EF 16-35mm was about the new f/4—which they describe as a completely different «beast»—not the old f/2.8. I am not familiar at all, OTOH, with the 17-40mm. ~ db.
Canon Image Challenge12-Sep-2014 20:10
The 24-105 is the kit I referred to and the reason I keep considering it even tho it is well documented for the WA distortion you mention is my thoughts are I'd switch to the 17-40 when I get much under 30 to 40mm. From experience I know that the 17-40 also has distortion at wide angles even on the crop so no doubt it's gotta be out of this world at 17mm on a FF. I have a friend who is a sports photographer for the Kansas City Star news paper and his 16-35 2.8 has major distortion when he is shooting wide angle and it never seems to bother them because I see his WA distortion a lot. An example is when he's shooting one the Kansas City Royals players up close getting a Gatorade bath after hitting the game winning run.

Paul
Daniel Bollag12-Sep-2014 14:34
There is no doubt, Paul: when upgrading from crop to full-frame, you do need a new lens set; and that comes, of course, at a cost! I had for my last APS-C camera the EF-S 10-22mm and the EF-S 17-55 (a wonderful duo, I must say, that still gets you good money on the second-hand market). Now I have (to start with full-frame) the EF 24-70L f/4 and the EF 70-200L f/4, a «team» I'm also very pleased with. I wonder which wide-angle will complement it: either the new 16-35L f/4 or—playing in a completely different league—the much more expensive TS-E 17mm (for my architecture «work») For what I take pictures of, f4 is anyway always good enough and I'm in no hurry to get further primes. On your other remark: The «kit-lens» you mention with the 6D—I imagine you mean the EF 24-105mm—was for me completely *out of the question* due to its strong distortions at 24mm.) — Maybe new photo equipment might get you out of your laziness (hopefully you don't really *mean* slump or burnout!), Paul? ~ db.
Canon Image Challenge12-Sep-2014 10:53
I've also long felt that the full frame sensors are superior to the crops, not because I have one but because I study the images from them. I usually see more dynamic range, lower noise, colors that really pop and more detail. The 6d is high on my list for the next camera or it's M-II replacement.

But there would problems with with the current lens lineup I have since the 17-40 is ultra wide on a FF so in reality I'd need another mid zoom, maybe the kit lens, to go with it to have better coverage. There is also The fact I seem to be shooting less these days, getting lazy, in a slump or burnt out who knows..........

Paul
Daniel Bollag12-Sep-2014 08:43
Thanks, Joshua, for your friendly words. Apart from the typically Mediterranean light in Southern France, there is—IMO—also something special about the full-frame sensor's «color (re)prensentation» that I never had seen on any of my former APS-C cameras; your mentioning the colors here makes me feel I'm not alone getting that perception... BTW: Yes, if you are a text journalist and, at the same time, hobby photographer, «Visa pour l'image» is, indeed, always a most fascinating and—please do excuse the pun—«eye-opening» place to be! ~ db.
Joshua Tanzer11-Sep-2014 17:53
Gorgeous colors, db. Now I wish I were there.