The elements weren't that bad on this particular day, actually. The real labor is carrying the backpack and tripod through the brush and snow. But heck, I need the exercise. The pack is about 30lbs. and the tripod is 11lbs. Maybe about 2 miles worth of walking. Not exactly a big excursion into the boondocks, but it feels that way with all the gear on.
I only took one sharp water image so far at 1/125th, most times I am not shooting in bright sunlight. I tend to err on the side of the creamy looking water. It's cliché but it works!
It's hard to manage fast shutter speeds as I almost always stop the lens down in order to maximize sharpness. For the most part if any bits of a landscape shot are soft it tends to look bad, at least if it's a scenic shot and not a picture of a specific object.
But as I learned with the shot of the smoke stacks, I can grossly underexpose and still get a useable neg. Probably not so in the darkroom, though. I have yet to clip the scanner's range. There's always plenty of headroom in the highlights. Of course properly-exposed stuff looks better overall, but if you are off by a few stops you're not totally ruined.
Wait, I guess the water in this shot was just sitting there. I think this was like 1/8th sec.
I just remembered, I've gotta give your 210mm lens back one of these days!
