Sandbar in the Willamette

For the nifty-fifty-sooc theme of September

https://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/30294/nf-sooc-september-2017

Following the notes from Richard Sayer on this, in order to get the effect of a 50 mm lens on a full-frame camera, II set the 18-55 mm lens to 35mm on my Canon Rebel with its APS-C sensor.

[KWind]

Nicely composed with a wonderful bridge reflection.

[Laura]

Nice shot. Still looks pretty smoky in the distance.

[Rob Z]

I really don't understand what you are doing with the lens - but I love the result you achieved.

[Candace]

Wonderful reflections!

[gloria jones]

Great composition and reflections

[Jorlam]

love the foreground vegetation, a wonderful frame for the bridge and it's fab reflection. That's a super PoV and good use of DoF..

[Marcy]

Beautiful reflection

[Helen Jane]

@robz I'm glad i'm not the only one! I like the result too and can see it is well composed.

[Granagringa]

@robz @helenhall Ah, thank you ladies for your words on the composition. Now, that thing about the lenses....I've just learned this as well...a full-frame sensor is the same size, as I understand it, of a piece of 35mm film that would be exposed in a film camera. But many dslr cameras use a "cropped" sensor....smaller, more like 24mm (cheaper to make, cameras can be smaller). That results is the sensor seeing less of the full breadth of the lens as the lens is calculated for full-frame. ie: a 50mm lens shows a 50mm view on a full-frame camera but would be cropped on a smaller sensor. And so, in order to get the same view, one has to adjust...by a factor of 75% or 1.5 or the lens size...eg a 50mm lens on a full frame sensor gives the same view as a 35mm lens on a cropped sensor. Have I totally confused you? hope not...and as I said, this is all new to me. And I think unless you are doing the nifty-fifty challenge here, it probably will never mean that much in our world of shooting...lol...

[Granagringa]

@kwind @lstasel @seattlite @marcy0414 thank you all so much;

[Granagringa]

@jorlam I so appreciate your specifics, as I've said so many times before...thank you.

[Granagringa]

@ribbet9 Thanks you, Candace...I'm sure you know the scene well...let me know if you want to meet sometime in the "neighborhood".

[Rob Z]

@granagringa I'm pretty sure i've got the physics of it now that you've explained it. But why bother? I read somewhere that the result is interpreted better by the eye - more natural proportions - would that be the why? And from all of this it appears that I can totally ignore it for my camera LOL !!! Thanks for the info! :)