Local Color

[Mike Lewis]

So it has been a great leaf season around here in CO, and the color has now even been great right on the path behind my house. Here is my favorite one from a few days ago. This is taken with the new RF 14-35; it really is nice to have a small lens that can go so wide with me in my bag at all times. In this case I used the natural perspective distortion to accentuate the way the trees lean in over the path at this point.


'Golden Canopy'

Comments and critiques welcome.

ML

 

[AlanLichty]

Very nice colors indeed - I'd be happy to have shot this scene. Nice light.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Beautiful. Nice colors and the sunburst is also very nice.

 

[Joe Colozzo]

Great colors and beautiful shot

 

[Timmeh]

That's quite a nice path to be near! The backlight and pale blue of the sky work really well to make a brisk mood. That's the most understated starburst I think I've ever seen. It almost blends in with the clouds near it.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nice fall scene. How do you like the 14-35? I am seeing mixed reports on this.

 

[Bob]

Nice image Mike love the way you got the sunburst in the image.
Bob

 

[JimFox]

Nice one Mike, that's a cool walkway.

 

[Jon Buffington]

Very nice!

 

[Mike Lewis]

Thanks for all the comments everyone!

Jameel, I like the new RF 14-35 very much. It is small, light and has excellent image quality, with the only caveat being the vignetting of the uncorrected raw files. I was a bit put off by that at first (since I strictly shoot raw) until I realized that the uncorrected FOV appears to be wider than 14mm, allowing one to crop and still have a very wide result. It will be nicer when (if?) Adobe Lightroom gets a profile for this lens, but until then I am successfully making my own corrections to a level I am happy with. I expect that DxO will almost certainly have a module for this lens even if Adobe never does so I will use that for my 14-35 images once it comes out if necessary. Aside from that though the lens is very sharp and handles very nicely, and it has replaced my very excellent EF 16-35 f/4 in my bag from now on, being smaller, lighter, and having even better IQ than that already excellent lens.

ML

 

[Jameel Hyder]

That is good to know since this is on my list to get at some point. The latest update from adobe has a number of new RF lenses as well as camera profiles for all the R bodies. If you haven’t updated yet it may be worth looking to see if they have the profile for this lens. There are some nice set of features in this update.