A recent walk with friends along the Grand Union Canal in Hemel Hempstead

[Ian]

The canal offers a bit of variety! All taken with the Olympus OM-D E-M5, hand held. These are camera JPEGs processed in Lightroom 4 - no official support for E-M5 RAW files yet.



My friend, Jeremy and his and our girls - the Mums preferred to stay at home! ISO 2000, f/6.7, 1/400th, 300mm (600mm equiv.) m.Zuiko 75-300 f/4.8-6.7 ED



Silliness but fun! ISO 1600, f/4.8, 1/640th, 75mm (150mm equiv.) m.Zuiko 75-300 f/4.8-6.7 ED



Ready for the oven if you ask me...ISO 3200, f/6.7, 1/400th, 300mm (600mm equiv.) m.Zuiko 75-300 f/4.8-6.7 ED



Head to head? ISO 3200, f/6.7, 1/125th, 300mm (600mm equiv.) m.Zuiko 75-300 f/4.8-6.7 ED



Don't jump! That is actually the old Kodak tower block in Hemel which has now been gutted and re-skinned as luxury apartments. Approx 50% crop, ISO 1250, f/6.7, 1/200th, 300mm (600mm equiv.) m.Zuiko 75-300 f/4.8-6.7 ED



Finally, a sunset view along the canal. ISO 1250, f/5.9, 1/4000th, 179mm (358mm equiv.) m.Zuiko 75-300 f/4.8-6.7 ED

Being able to use such high ISO settings without worrying is very liberating.

Ian

[escallonia]

Re: A recent walk with friends along the Grand Union Canal in Hemel Hempstead

These are the shots I was waiting for Ian, Your second shot is the best for me I see you were using the the 75-300 Zuiko lens I would have liked to see how the 12-50mm Kit lens behaved amazing high ISO. Did you use the HLD 6?
looking forward to receiving mine I understand that will be around the second week in April my order was with Warehouse express wex photography Norwich.
Thanks for posting Ian regards John.

[Pops]

Re: A recent walk with friends along the Grand Union Canal in Hemel Hempstead

The 2nd does it for me as well. An excellent relaxed album shot.
The guy in the tower block doesn't look to happy considering it seems to his birthday As for them being luxury apartments...well I guess you would need to see inside to appreciate that.

[Pol]

Re: A recent walk with friends along the Grand Union Canal in Hemel Hempstead

Nice selection.

That's actually quite an impressive crop of Kodak Tower imo. Such a lot of clarity and detail showing.

I love what they did with Kodak Tower. I like the cladding - it looks good. I imagine there's be quite a lot of potential for archtectural pics in and around that area.
For anyone interested, here's a link with some pics showing the progress of the development.

Pol

[Mowgli]

Re: A recent walk with friends along the Grand Union Canal in Hemel Hempstead

The first two pictures show the fun you are having along the canal, I really like the sunset view
Mowgli