I am a people photographer, over the past 8 years almost exclusively photographed ethnic minority groups, their culture and lifestyle, in Northern Laos.
http://www.pbase.com/kees5 or
http://kees.zenfolio.com/I have always shied away from landscapes. Lived in New Zealand for many years, and some of the landscapes there just intimidated me, i'd always find that if I'd try and photograph them, i'd end up with a stereotype picture postcard, and I didn't want that.
Just recently, saw a nice shy outside my condo window (Living in Thailand at present), and grabbed my camera. I liked the result, so I had it blown up to 45" wide, and it still held together (I think)
Because of my own landscape-phobia, I'd appreciate any feedback people here could give.
For what it is worth, I used a Canon 5D MkII, 24-70/2.8 Canon zoom at 30 mm, ISO 200 1/400 sec f10. processed uncropped in Lightroom 2
One comment from the printer, who I gave a TIFF saved from LR2, was that there seemed to be a big colourshift in the Tiff he received, compared to the print I showed him. He blamed it on LR2. He fixed it in PS
I had it printed outside because my Epson 800 doesn't do bigger then A2.
The print he produced on an Epson 11080 (I think) looked as if it would have withstood an even larger print. Qua quality I am very happy with the camera lens combo.
But I really would like feedback about the image, rather then the tech details.
The attached jpg shows terrible jpg artefacts in the sky, of course the original doesn't, but has nice smooth gradation. The jpg was saved in LR at 75 ppi and 22/100 quality setting. Any higher setting I feared would produce too bi a file.