Capturing Every Detail
An older--and quite frankly, all but dead--tree reveals itself to the camera
A very old cottonwood tree sits beside Voight Creek, close to the salmon hatchery. There are a few live twigs sprouting from the base of the trunk, but this poor tree has pretty much lived out the life it was given.
The skeleton is amazing, as you can see. It twists and turns in crazy ways—a lot of the older cottonwoods near the rivers have this kind of branching.
I took out a lens for testing, to see how much detail it could manage to capture of the texture of this old tree. (It’s a large-format lens, a Fuji 135mm f/5.6.) Answer above. But let’s take a look at a 100% detail of the photograph - there are a lot, I mean a LOT of pixels in the raw image.
The above image is smaller than its actual size; click it to get to all the detail.
I haven’t been using this lens much; it’s not an expensive lens so I didn’t expect it would do well. Quite the contrary—it captured amazing detail in the photo.
The camera is my Phase One digital back, the IQ4-150. A good lens is only as good as the camera sensor allows it to be, and the sensor in the IQ4-150 is a champ.