Supertelephoto Art, In Seattle

A few weekends ago, I got the chance to play around with my 400mm f/3.5 supertelephoto up in Seattle. I'm exploring the artistic merit of shooting anything but birds and sports with a supertelephoto lens. I think it works. As always, click to enlarge (in Flickr).


(D2H, 400mm, monopod, Photoshop)


(F4S, 400mm, monopod, Fuji film processed at Costco and scanned onto CD at processing, Photoshop)

Crop Factor...

Just a quick post to ponder the difference between 17mm on my 'new' F4s and on my D2H (with a 1.5x 'crop factor'). The difference in the distortion/skewing is very noticable. I'm not sure if it's just a different viewing angle, or if it's really as noticable between the cameras. I'm going to have to do something more 'scientific'...

(D2H)

(F4)

Any color/exposure differences come about because I let the 1-hour photo lab scan the negative for me. I'd ideally, too, like to get the processing a little closer to each other, too.

Still, it's very weird seeing the difference in the distortion with the same lens.