The Mighty Muskegon River

[Michael Erlewine]

Nikon D810, Zeiss Otus 28mm APO f/1.4

The great Muskegon River as it flows through my town of Big Rapids, Michigan, located on the edge of 900,000 acres of national forest.

[HCS]

Pleasing scene, Michael, with beautiful colours on the right hand sky section.

A bit of a halo on the left hand sky/tree section. Seems you either pulled the shadows hard, or pushed the sky back hard. Or, did you perhaps HDR stack this 

[Michael Erlewine]

Pleasing scene, Michael, with beautiful colours on the right hand sky section.

A bit of a halo on the left hand sky/tree section. Seems you either pulled the shadows hard, or pushed the sky back hard. Or, did you perhaps HDR stack this 

True. I am just learning landscape photography. Here is another taken the same morning with the Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 lens.

[MFloyd]

I don't know if it's due to the lens or the post-processing, but the first picture (Otus) looks much crisper Thant the second one 👍

[Michael Erlewine]

I don't know if it's due to the lens or the post-processing, but the first picture (Otus) looks much crisper Thant the second one 👍

Well, yeah. It is the difference between a Zeiss Otus (one of the best F=Mount lenses in the world) and the Nikon 14-24mm lens, still one of the better lenses for this mount.

[Peter Connan]

Indeed a big difference in crispness!

Were the exposure settings and general post processing the same?

[Bjørn Rørslett]

First rule of lens comparisons is to have compatible angle of view for each lens. This is *not* the case here and the accompanying change in scene brightness and contrast mask any difference between the lenses used.

[elsa hoffmann]

Michael - you have a good eye for landscapes.