Normally, I’m photographing things headed down to Alabama. This year with son #2 playing football at Middlebury, we did a lot more driving around Vermont and I was occasionally riding shotgun with enough light to take some pictures. I can’t decide if I’d like to really slow down and take decent pictures or if driving by at however-many-miles-per-hour makes landscape photography more like sports photography.
I have expanded my lens collection with a used 70-200 f2.8 Canon. It’s nice and I’ve wanted this lens for 15 or 20 years. I don’t think I’ll ever buy another lens slower than a 2.8. I really want to rent the Canon 400mm f2.8 prime. I just want to see if it focuses faster/better than the Sigma 150-600 that I have. I don’t know that I’d ever be able to justify the cost (even well used) but I am curious. Then I need to see if the R3 or R1 bodies help with focus. Assuming it does make a big difference, it’s a path to wanting to spend $15k. So maybe I shouldn’t do that.
That’s some fine shooting, these from a moving car or pullovers?
You’ve likely seen more of the area than me, but my 3+ road trips to Vermont always were a thrill through the lens, any time of year. Lots of color, texture, and weird old stuff.
Keep on shooting!
All from the car at speed. It’s action landscape photography- a new genre?