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San Clemente Surfer

Posted on | May 11, 2009 | 7 Comments

Surfer, San Clemente, California

Surfer, San Clemente, California

I am really impressed with how sharp the Canon 70-200mm f4 lens is. Almost as impressive is the autofocus capabilities. I have only used the auto focus on the Canon system a few times before because I’ve never had a lens that was good at it but with this lens I’ve been using the AF almost exclusively.

Since the sun was backlighting the scene I figured that I would go for a pseudo high-key effect on this picture. It’s nice to have a good medium telephoto zoom lens now because this is a shot that I wouldn’t have tried before due to color fringing (chromatic aberration) on the high contrast edges. There isn’t much of it on this lens.

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Comments

7 Responses to “San Clemente Surfer”

  1. Sherri Meyer
    May 11th, 2009 @ 9:54 am

    Excellent shot! You will probably be using this lens a lot. It opens up so many more opportunities for you.

    Enjoy!

  2. Jim Goldstein
    May 11th, 2009 @ 11:24 am

    I like it. Great composition. The high key look works very well Richard!

  3. Richard Wong
    May 12th, 2009 @ 12:38 am

    Thanks Sherri and Jim.

  4. bernie kasper
    May 13th, 2009 @ 8:14 pm

    Great shot Richard, love the feel to this one, I agree about the high key look it really is nice !!

  5. Richard Wong
    May 13th, 2009 @ 11:23 pm

    Thanks Bernie.

  6. Leann Greene
    May 19th, 2009 @ 2:10 pm

    Really cool ..duuude :-P

  7. Richard Wong
    May 19th, 2009 @ 11:06 pm

    Thanks duuuudette. :-)

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