On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Ira Bryant <[email protected]> wrote: > > Last Christmas I traveled with my wife to Hong Kong, mainland China, and > Macau. It was her first time home in three years, and the first time I had > ever been there. I also met my in-laws for the first time. > > Most of my photography time since then has been spent working on a Blurb book > of the trip. This has turned out to be a bigger project than I thought. The > pictures are all done, but the text and captions are taking a long time. I > haven't really shared the pictures I took with anyone, yet, except for the > two I submitted for the PDML book. I thought I would stop and share a couple > more. > > The first place any tourist goes in Hong Kong is usually to the top of > Victoria Peak. It is situated in the middle of Hong Kong, and has a beautiful > view of the city. I managed to get there right at sunset, and got a decent > spot. I didn't have a tripod, though, and my pictures suffered for it. The > place is elbow-to-elbow photographers. I guess it is the worst kind of > tourism to do, but it was only a few hours of a two week trip. And the view > was very lovely, and nothing I can see back in Oklahoma. > > So here are a couple of photos: > > With maximum cliche - > http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3600/3300800173_10e5149080_o.jpg > > Taken with the K100D Super and DA21 > > With slightly less cliche - > http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3385/3300800617_b1b2758e13_o.jpg > > Taken with a Sears 80-200 f/4. I bought a Pentax M150 f/3.5 toward the > end of the trip > to replace it, but it is what I had at the time. I had the SR set > wrong, that is why the EXIF > data says I am using a 50mm lens. Photography is hard. > > Any comments on the photos, especially post-production tips, would be > appeciated.
Both gorgeous, but I prefer the night shot. Being as I've never been to Hong Kong, and honestly haven't seen many images of its skyline, these are anything but cliche to me. Terrific! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
