Mini Blast of Lake Superior Images - Catching Up!

My son, Easton Robert, was born on Saturday 8/4 and I've been a little busy the weeks leading up to the birth and since. But, I managed to sneak out every now and then for a few shots.

As always, comments and especially critiques are very welcome - enjoy:

An evening on the Big Sucker Creek, normally a fast moving creek that empties into Lake Superior a few hundred yards after this point - a popular fly fishing destination:

Very nice series, Congrats on the birth of your son.

Really nice images. Look crisp!

very nice shots, really like the b&w and the first one with those great rocks. congratulations on your son!

I like #2 and #3. Very nice images. The clouds look awesome in #2.

Great shots...Really like #2 and #3...Congrats on the little one!

Nice Superior "Rant"

Major props for level horizons!

wow, that 2nd shot is amazing. really got something there!

N°2 is beautiful.

Wow, great series. I like 2, 3 and the last two. What lens were you using? You really nailed the focus, nice and sharp.

Thanks for the congrats, on both counts - appreciate all the comments everyone.

katgrl82 wrote in post #14857197
Wow, great series. I like 2, 3 and the last two. What lens were you using? You really nailed the focus, nice and sharp.

I think all of these were taken with the Zeiss 21. My 24-105 is capable of making similar web sized images but the difference really shows in bigger prints. The ZE21 has a very nice manual focus scale on it that makes it very easy to precisely set the focus.

Lately, I've been setting my aperture to f11 and my focus to the hyperfocal distance for f8. My foregrounds are still pretty sharp but it really adds depth to the scene when biasing the focus for the background a bit. If I am shooting close to the ground or I have a significant foreground object, Ill dial down to f/16 and focus at the hyperfocal distance for f11.

And, one more for good measure - I dont normally work with B&W much but thought it was fitting for this lonely tree: