New Print – Mindarie & Quinns Rocks Coastline

Mindarie & Quinns Rocks Coastline

I took a set of images two months ago down at the beach here in Mindarie. I just love the view up the coast from Mindarie to Quinns, the small bays and rocky outcrops are gorgeous. I’m just waiting for one of our Ospreys to land on a rock and pose for me.

This one is going to be my first proper canvas print, just done a small 8″x8″ canvas of it and the colours have come out beautifully. Bigger versions to come soon :smile:

Sadly most of the images from that night were a complete failure due to a little mistake I made with the Image Stability setting on my 70-200mm, I had it turned on :sad: Incase anyone is not aware of this annoying trait IS does not work well with tripods, infact it creates very blurry images as it tries to compensate for non-existent hand movements …

Luckily I took the first few images with my 17-40mm and got some pretty good results.

~ by Dave Catley on March 31, 2008.

Posted in New Images - Released, Photo Shoots, Tehcnical Information

13 Responses to “New Print – Mindarie & Quinns Rocks Coastline”

  1. Great image Dave, that’ll look good on canvas. Is that really true of the behavior of the IS lenses? I’ve got it on my 17-85mm lens and I’m not even sure it works to be honest. Thanks for the tip anyway I’ll have to experiment as I do tend to leave it on but I manually focus most of my stuff to be hyperfocal. Does the Manual focus override the IS I wonder?

    matthewinman said this on March 31, 2008 at 5:34 pm | Reply

  2. Great shot, Dave. The exposure time creates some nice motion in the water without “smoothing” it too much…

    I would imagine it would look great on canvas!

    I didn’t know that about the IS either although I don’t have any lenses with IS.

    Beau Mitchell said this on March 31, 2008 at 9:21 pm | Reply

  3. Thanks guys.

    I’m pretty sure that the IS will work whether the focus is on auto or manual, most os my landscape shots are done with manual focus.

    IS really is a godsend for wildlife and people shooting but you’d think Canon could detect you were mounted on a tripod and disable it …

    Dave Catley said this on April 1, 2008 at 6:31 am | Reply

  4. Dave, I found this on my lunch break:

    http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/image-stabilization-on-tripods/

    You’re on the money right enough. IS(on) + Tripod = :-(

    matthewinman said this on April 1, 2008 at 11:45 am | Reply

  5. Cheers Matthew, useful article.

    I had to laugh at the following statement though

    “This is pretty basic stuff really – if you read the manual that comes with your IS enabled lens it will give you this same tip …”

    Cause we all read manuals don’t we guys :grin:
    That’s the first thing I do when I get a new toy, no rushing out to try it out I sit in the corner for an hour reading about it … or maybe not :cool:

    Dave Catley said this on April 1, 2008 at 11:52 am | Reply

  6. Yeah I had the same problem with the 17-85 until I got rid of it. IS is bad for tripods.

    James said this on April 1, 2008 at 1:05 pm | Reply

  7. Dave,

    I just love this pic. Well done.

    Jamie Paterson
    http://www.jamiepaterson.net

    jamiepaterson1 said this on April 1, 2008 at 8:19 pm | Reply

  8. Great Shot Dave ,
    Would look great on canvas .
    Thanks for the info on IS lens didnt even know about that .
    Will coming in usefull when i get a lens with IS

    kirkhille said this on April 1, 2008 at 11:47 pm | Reply

  9. love that shot Dave, one of your best.

    christianfletcher said this on April 7, 2008 at 3:16 pm | Reply

  10. Thanks Christian, Kirk & Jamie hopefully lots more shots like this one to come :)

    Dave Catley said this on April 7, 2008 at 4:10 pm | Reply

  11. Dave next time try popping a person on the rock……add a little more interest. Just kidding…..beautiful shot

    Hazel said this on April 8, 2008 at 1:05 pm | Reply

  12. Thanks Hazel, generally people get cloned out not put in :lol:

    Dave Catley said this on April 8, 2008 at 1:09 pm | Reply

  13. I have just started turning the IS off. a couple of years shooting with it on. Me stupid

    Anonymous said this on April 21, 2008 at 8:17 pm | Reply

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