zhangyue wrote:
Hi, Philip,
In your Ligthtroom setting shown above:
I notice you leave contrast to zero, and most of them Clarity also set to zero, and even your curve setting is liner, in additional to that, you also pull back shadow 100 and pull down highlight -100. The photo should looks really flat if I am doing the same thing. What kind of profile you use? Adobe default or some costumer setting?
But yours seems still pretty contrasty. What do you do? Before you export to PS, do you do any sharp at all? or leave that all to PS. In term of contrast, do you do that in PS as well? ...Show more →
Do you use LR4? Pulling the lights and pushing the shadows really only affects the highlights and shadows so contrast isn't affected much.
I think added clarity makes most pictures look unnatural, at least whe i used a Zeiss.
I think that the white-slider is responsible for most of the contrast in my images.
I use a custom set for the 5n and use the default one for the 7. The difference is minor with greenery but quite aparrent when reds are present. Wales_CaderIdris_13_Zeiss_Planar_45mm_f2 by Phillip Reeve, on Flickr
Phillip Reeve wrote:
I use a custom set for the 5n and use the default one for the 7. The difference is minor with greenery but quite aparrent when reds are present.
ah, was going to ask if you'd found a good for the 7, i'm still looking.
Hi, Philip,
Thanks for your reply. I use LR4, I know the highlight and shadow improve hugely compare to LR3. But your setting seems suggest more flat rendering than the pictures shown. I guess I need take one of my ZEiss lens with better light to see.
But usually, my common sense is for High DR sensor like NEX having, contrast usually need a little bit help. Your setting is very interesting. I am going to give it a try.
zhangyue wrote:
Thanks for your reply. I use LR4, I know the highlight and shadow improve hugely compare to LR3. But your setting seems suggest more flat rendering than the pictures shown. I guess I need take one of my ZEiss lens with better light to see.
But usually, my common sense is for High DR sensor like NEX having, contrast usually need a little bit help. Your setting is very interesting. I am going to give it a try.
I played around with different contrast settings when i processed my recent pictures and found that usually i didn't like the result very much when i simply increased contrast, my method produced a nicer graduation.
I found some lost pictures on my girlfriends sd-card:
Phillip Reeve wrote:
I played around with different contrast settings when i processed my recent pictures and found that usually i didn't like the result very much when i simply increased contrast, my method produced a nicer graduation.
I am not talk about just contrast slider but the way you process your some photos as a whole: -100 highlight, +100 shadow and liner on curve and 0 at clarity. all these will lead pretty flat photo with high DR sensor by using adobe profile.
That is why I ask if you do the L Chanel curve/contrast in PS and sharpening to make photo looks as is now? (which I think they are looking good)
zhangyue wrote:
I am not talk about just contrast slider but the way you process your some photos as a whole: -100 highlight, +100 shadow and liner on curve and 0 at clarity. all these will lead pretty flat photo with high DR sensor by using adobe profile.
That is why I ask if you do the L Chanel curve/contrast in PS and sharpening to make photo looks as is now? (which I think they are looking good)
I don't do any contrast adjustments outside of LR, my sharpening just brings out the details a bit more.
Contrast also depends on lighting quite a lot, i have posted some more examples in this flcikr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/birnenbaumgarten/sets/72157631388994464/with/7982924621/ they are treated a bit different
Mescalamba wrote:
I have serious skill and lens envy cause of this pics.
Your pics from 45mm f2 makes me *drool*. And your work with that 15mm... awww. Very impressive. Lovely landscapes..
hehe
I recently purchased the Voigtlander 15mm for my Nex 5n and I am getting brilliant sharp images much like yours. I also have the G lenses and I think it can not get much better! I have been afraid of the Nex 7 thinking it might be a backwards step. I have read some blogs about color cast and lower IQ. Do the Nex 7 images require more processing to match the Nex 5n? I would like the larger image but not at the price of inconvenience.
Phillip: A brilliant set of images, I particularly like the forest images with the 45/2
And thanks for the processing info, I've just test-driven your basic settings on a few NEX-7 landscape/foliage shots and am pretty impressed, they will make a great starting point for some of my landscape processing.
Are you sure you don't work for the Wales Tourist Bureau?
Beautiful shots of a beautiful country. There was a lot of great scenery when we took a bus tour of Southern Ireland a long time ago.
Great shots. I recommend the area around Aberystwyth and N. Wales/Anglesey for next time, you will love it. For a country so small there is quite a lot to shoot.
Outstanding, as usual Phillip. Wales must be full of photographic treasures, thanks for sharing with us!
I recently sold my CV15 because I needed some quick cash for a project. Your images from the Sigma 19 give me hope... looks like mine will stop collecting dust and start seeing some action until I reacquire the 15 next year
The rendering of the Sony 50 looks really nice on all of that closeup work you posted. I've never really given that lens much consideration.
DaveOls wrote:
Are you sure you don't work for the Wales Tourist Bureau?
Beautiful shots of a beautiful country. There was a lot of great scenery when we took a bus tour of Southern Ireland a long time ago.
thanks ;-)
I hope i will be able to return there in spring, my relatives told me that the nature muste be phantsatic then.
Jacob D wrote:
Outstanding, as usual Phillip. Wales must be full of photographic treasures, thanks for sharing with us!
I recently sold my CV15 because I needed some quick cash for a project. Your images from the Sigma 19 give me hope... looks like mine will stop collecting dust and start seeing some action until I reacquire the 15 next year
The rendering of the Sony 50 looks really nice on all of that closeup work you posted. I've never really given that lens much consideration.
Thanks :-)
You are the first person i would have come up with if anyone asked for CV15 samples, but the sigma ist nice as well, give it another chance
I had the Sony 50/1.8 (lets call it Sonycrux or Sonylon 50 ) for a while now and always liked the portraits i shot with it, only recently did i disconver that it is great for anything else at a cloer distance.
taran wrote:
Great shots. I recommend the area around Aberystwyth and N. Wales/Anglesey for next time, you will love it. For a country so small there is quite a lot to shoot.
North Wales is yet to come, i had great conditions when we were climbin cader idris
