Could you image facing a storm out at sea and trying to navigate the Oregon coastline? There would be no place to hide. I’m sure many a ship have fallen in such conditions.
Photographer’s Notes - I shot this image with my traditional walk around travel kit which at the time was a Nikon D700 and 28-300mm lens, but is now a nikon D7000 and 18-200mm lens. I’d be happy to answer any questions about why I switched to a DX travel kit from my FX rig. The image was initially processed in Lightroom 4, the back and white conversion was handled with Nik Silver FX and some finishing touches were done in Photoshop.
Very Nice! I am curious why you switched. My travel kit is a D300s and the 28-300vr or the 24-120 f/4. Do you like the size/weight of the D7000. It seemed small when I played with it.
I’ve got the d700, and while I do love the full frame coverage, when traveling its a heavy sucker to lug with lenses. My d90 might be making an upcoming trip to the Big Island instead. Sorry, can’t fit any of you in my luggage. :)
Brilliant image Justin – hard to imagine being in the water at all around those obstacles!
Love it, and thanks for confirming the Oregon coast is on my have to get there list.
You bet Kim! This is image is looking north form Cannon Beach. Such a cool spot!
Barb + Doc….
I migrated to the D700 for two pretty obvious reasons…which you both mentioned…size and cost. It is quite a bit smaller than the D700 and 28-300. Also, I moved because it had video…I picked it up and a video camera and fell in love with. Also, for me 16mp files are the perfect size. One thing that I found I loved, but wasn’t sure I was going to love was the user settings. I have one bank set up for portraits and another for landscapes. Works pretty slick for travel stories. Well, that’s the long and short of it! I will say the D600 looks interesting!
I own the D7000 and the D600. Nine times out of ten, I’ll opt to carry the D7000 paired with a light Tamron 18-270mm lens as my general travel kit. I prefer Nikon glass but this isn’t a bad combination if you’re not expecting tack sharp images and need to save a few hundred dollars over the price of the Nikon 18-200mm. It never really achieves razor sharpness but it gets the job done at most focal lengths. In most cases, I can get away with simply adding some sharpness during post-processing.