Queenstown shots...

[RobDickinson]

Spent the weekend visiting friends who have recently moved to Queenstown, working my way through the files bit by bit.

Heres a selection from Saturday mornings shots, taken on my friends canon 40D with my sigma 70-200f2.8.

All these taken from the Coronet Peak ski field access road, with a blizzard heading in from the sought.

Lake Johnson with Wakatipu in the background:










Last one is 70mm @ f3.2 for a bit of a play, all I can say is I'm more than happy with the sigma's corner sharpness.. :

[CivicMan]

Gorgeous images! IMO would benefit from a bit of Levels tweaking to bring out the full richness, viz:

[RobDickinson]

Yeah probably, the trouble was those are 40D shots my PS CS2 doesnt like, and I dont know what I'm doing with lightroom.

Rest of my shots are with mty 350d so will be much better with the processing in CS2.

[john185k]

Very nice

[RobDickinson]

Set 2 is from a trip to [URL="http://www.thedeerpark.co.nz"]Deer Park heights[/URL] where a number of LOTR scenes were filmed, the park is situated Right behind Kelvin heights were I was staying, its fairly verticle and TBH you can almost point a camera anywhere and get a decent shot.. Back to my 350D and photoshop too..

Alpacas & Cecil Peak:



Frankton arm of Lake Wakatipu :


Bayonet Peaks over Drift Bay:


Deer on Peninsular Hill (& Remarkables):


The remarkables (pano):

[Alexbirch43]

Any chance of a link to the original size version of that last pano as its a corker!

Edited by Alexbirch43 on Wednesday 29th October 13:00

[Moe_Szyslak]

How do you ad the black frames to the photos, is this in post-editing?

[RobDickinson]

The full sized pano is about 14000x10000 or something!!! will try get a larger version online.

The black borders are added in photoshop using the canvas size increase method.