We spent the afternoon at the Poly with a long lens. [This attachment has been purged. Older attachments are purged from time to time to conserve disk space. Please feel free to repost your image.]
An afternoon at the Poly part II and four more: [This attachment has been purged. Older attachments are purged from time to time to conserve disk space. Please feel free to repost your image.]
Yes very nice Craig. A couple of those shots I wouldn't be able to tell that you didn't take them on Oahu. Unless you told me. Never been to the Poly. Hard to beat the real thing.
How did you get the second shot? * June 2007 WDW 219.jpg From the composition, it looks like the castle is only a few feet away.
Add me to the poly fan club. Never stayed there, always wanted to. I've started going there to eat at the Kona Cafe or Ohana though. I always get a kick out of just walking through the lobby, the place is just saturated in atmosphere. Plus I have a softness for tiki bars, and they have one.
I'm sure Craig will chime in, but he probably had a zoom lens that runs a range from some wider angle to at least 400mm. Some rules of thumb I've started teaching myself.... the more the millimeters, the more you are zoomed in the smaller the f-stop (aperture) the more light and the more near-sighted you are
"biblio: Is that the lens size that you used?" yes I have a zoom lens 80-400mm. Also when you shoot at long telephoto lengths you can loose some apparent "depth". The photo can look flat with everything appearing to be at the same distance, on the same plane. someone else here could explain this way better than me.
That would be because at that point, the lens is focusing at "infinity" so basically to the optical elements and the sensor, everything is at the same distance, when it isn't. It's more pronounced when you are trying to get the same subject the same size on different focal lengths - in order to do that you have to move away (feet zoom) from the subject.
I've heard it explained that zooming in "compresses" the depth or field. Btw, sitting at the 'poly right now waiting to get into 'ohana. Good times waiting for all.
I like this stacking or compressed look. Here, I used a zoom lens set at 120mm looking down Mainstreet from the train station platform last December.
