More (18 - 70) River Shots

A little later that afternoon, still with the 18 - 70, I took a series of shots varying the aperture.

The interesting thing here is the comparison with the 18 - 200 mm lens in terms of bokeh and vibration blur. I'll have to take the two lenses out and do an apples-to-apples comparison of identical shots.

Notes:
F5.6 - bright (red, yellow) colours render best but bokeh is distracting.
F9 - probably the best shot overall: you'd get a similar effect using the camera's landscape program.
F14 - slower shutter speed results in obvious vibration blur: 18 - 200 VR would solve this.

F 5.6 .. 70 mm .. 1/125 sec
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F 9 .. 70 mm .. 1/100 sec
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F 14 .. 70 mm .. 1/50 sec
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F 14 .. 70 mm .. 1/30 sec
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River of Light

A couple of weeks ago I was out with my trusty 18 - 70 Af-S 1:3.5-4.5G DX Nikkor lens, which is what I used for 90% of our China and Tibet photos (and 99% of those that turned out well). It's a great lens which I'd highly recommend.

Along with the usual pretty shots of the Charles River and Harvard there were some technically interesting photos in the set. The blinding reflection of the afternoon sun tricked the camera into using a high speed for a small aperture. The result was good depth of field and an interesting blend of [technically] over-exposed, under-exposed, silhouetted and goldilocks elements in the picture.

Notes:
Composition was very quick and somewhat haphazard since the reflection was blinding and I didn't want to burn out my retina or the sensor.

fwiw, I have also always really liked the way this lens renders water.

F 16 .. 50 mm .. 1/400 sec

F 11 .. 62 mm .. 1/640 sec