New pics from my first road trip

[wconley]

Thanks everyone!

Jeph, good point on the GPS clutter. Didn't even think of it for any but the mountain shot and there I knew it wasn't in the picture.

gmboxster, I really don't have any negatives so far, well other than you have to remember sunscreen. It's comfortable and easy to drive for long distances. I installed the rear speaker option and ipod connection kit and that makes for good tunes even with the top down. As I mentioned, this was a trip to an outdoor concert so we had low lawn chairs in back, a soft-side cooler, light hiking gear and day packs, clothes for the different weather expected and my camera bag and tripod. A lot of stuff!

I was amazed after I got the car to find out you can put two roll-on suitcases in the front trunk, stacked one on top of the other so there's tons of room. We only had one for this trip and then the other loose gear on top. Probably the only negative was that we couldn't buy much at the outlet malls - oh wait, that's a positive as well.

[Tom Blue]

Beautiful shots, thanks for sharing. I live on the east coast where there are lots of nice curvey roads but you can't beat the scenery in the northwest.

[RandallNeighbour]

Gorgeous pix! Keep them coming on this thread. You are a great photographer... love your use of depth of field, perspective, and framing.

[wconley]

Thanks! Here's another one from the same spot as the top photo - just from a different perspective. Shows what happens when you go from 560mm (200mm with a stack of 1.4 and 2.0 converters) down to 12mm.

[Frodo]

Wow. Got lenses??

On the telephoto, did you tripod it? Or did image stabilization take care of the camera shake? Shutter speed?

Nice work...

[wconley]

Frodo-
Tripod is definitely required for the long lens. Either that or I need to drink less coffee. No IS on any of my lenses and I regret not getting that on the 80-200 f/2.8. I was 100+ feet back down the road with the tripod as low as it would go, laying on my side in the on-coming lane hoping not to get run over.

Stats on the long shot, 1/200s f/5.6 at 560mm iso100 (my camera doesn't recognize the stacked multipliers so it reports 400mm). The extremely short depth of field surprised me. I focused on the "porsche" on the windscreen and the back of the car was slightly blurred. The wide angle was 1/500s f/5.0 at 12.0mm iso100.

The full set from the trip can be viewed here.

Another great pic, Walt. Good work!

[porscheracer01]

Originally Posted by wconley

Thanks! Here's another one from the same spot as the top photo - just from a different perspective. Shows what happens when you go from 560mm (200mm with a stack of 1.4 and 2.0 converters) down to 12mm.

another great shot!