Morfeus wrote:
You actually responded to Markus' (Ulff) shots, Philippe
Ooooops! Sorry Markus (Ulff). My apologies for this mistake!
Really good stuff as well, Heinz! Later on, I will publish "my version" of your shots, because we were attracted to the same scenes, but in a very different way. Where you used a 90mm on crop, I used a 21mm on FF. And some slight cropping
It is so interesting to compare what all of you created with what I "found". And your crate shot is great, Vincent, but the story is even better! It has already been circulated
Carsten -- Wonderful to see these results and read of your good times. What a terrific idea and execution!
I would love to participate in something like this here in the L.A. area (when it isn't 100 degrees!). Seems like you have a winning "format" for informal meet-ups.
Congrats to all who were able to attend. And please don't limit to only three photos per photographer -- this stuff is gold and great to see how the differernt eyes interpret the same locales.
Wonderful shots everybody. I am sorry that I was not able to attend. My wife's health is not that good recently. I hope I can be with you another time. The weather was gorgeous for the occasion.
Rudi, I wish your wife better health, and hope you can make it next time.
Great photos everyone? Vincent, I understand the words and the sentences, but not where the story comes from?
My favorite shots so far are Markus' third (with Vincent in the background), Philippe's second (very clean and elegant, bravo!), Heinz' third shot (great execution, my lens was too wide at the time with no wish to change), and Vincent's third shot (the one with the story). I'll try to get mine ready now that I have brought my actions and presets across from my old Mac.
Jim, Berlin is a great city for things like this. Quite central in Europe, compact, but with enough interesting stuff to stay busy. Philippe flew in from another country on short notice, and maximized his time usage in just one day. I have a hard time to imagine the same scenario in a North American city. The distances are too large, and the differences too small to make it worthwhile for small distances.
Here are my three picks, all with my 16mm fisheye, for a change. The same thing happened which happens every time I use this lens: I have a ridiculous amount of fun, and my keeper rate goes way down. I took 117 shots, kept 60, and find about 5 or 6 good enough to post. On the other hand, some of my best shots were portraits of the others, but we agreed not to post those without permission, and I won't ask.
Here is a shot with an interesting story, even if the shot itself is kinda average. I was looking at my results and culling, and one thumbnail had this insanely bright red color in it. I went in to look at what was going on, and what could have caused my D3 to freak out, and realized that it was made with Markus' 5DII, with Philippe's 35/1.4 Distagon on it. I have felt in the past that there was something odd about Canon reds, but this shot made clear what I was feeling: the reds are much too strong. I am sure a little tweaking and careful exposure would fix this, but why on earth would Canon have such ballistic reds? Perhaps their lenses need the boost because of different coatings? Here is an unedited export. I only set the white balance to Daylight.
Is it because I am on a cell phone connection or do all our images including mine show extreme jpeg compression artifacts? I wonder if my cellphone provider proxies the images...
carstenw wrote:
(...) I have felt in the past that there was something odd about Canon reds, but this shot made clear what I was feeling: the reds are much too strong. I am sure a little tweaking and careful exposure would fix this, but why on earth would Canon have such ballistic reds? Perhaps their lenses need the boost because of different coatings? Here is an unedited export. I only set the white balance to Daylight.
I'm no expert but I recall having to make custom camera profiles for my 5DMkII to get the reds decent (I use Windows and ACR). Adobe's standard profile rendered the reds too much like orange.
I think Canon made the Bayer matrix a bit pale (as opposite to what Sony did to their FF cameras). As a result the 5DMkII has little noise at high ISO values while Sony got more of it.
Morfeus wrote:
Is it because I am on a cell phone connection or do all our images including mine show extreme jpeg compression artifacts? I wonder if my cellphone provider proxies the images...
I haven't checked carefully but when browsing around all these Berlin images I see no strange compression artefacts hitting me in my face.
It's interesting to see your different take son the same subjects. Thank you, all of you!
Sorry, I didn't intend to ignore it. You mean the one where you said "it's my overall favorite" I am guessing, which is indeed a very nice shot! After your description of all the things you had to change, it would be interesting to see a before-after.
Vincent Kluwe wrote:
Thx Carsten. Don't worry - I was just joking, like most of the times!
Ooops. How do I do that? Process the NEF again without touching any control? I'll give it a try. Just a moment please.
Edit: Bitte sehr:
Ah, exactly what I meant. Very educational! Each change is subtle, but the sum of the changes is quite dramatic! Interesting is also the change of the trees from yellowish green to rich green. I don't quite recall the true colour, but I don't think it was as yellow as in the first shot, leading me to think that either the sensor has a bit of a weakness there, or the white balance is not right in such scenes. Someone made a comment about the yellow greens while we were walking, but I don't recall now who it was. Maybe Philippe? I mentioned that I thought it might be the display, but perhaps there is another reason? I think Aperture's default correction brings it back, which is probably why I wasn't aware. Or maybe it is ACR which adds it?
P.S. I DO need (and deserve!!!) a shift lense!
Then why did you order the ZF.2 25/2 and not the Nikkor 24/2.8 PC-E?
