GC5 wrote:
You mean I should take out the one of my older boy with the NEX?
Oh, no, not at all; I just mean that referring in your post to the equipment used helps folks (like me, anyway) see the capabilities and possibilities of various combinations of paraphernalia. But then occasionally some member will complain about the seasonal threads and how they take up valuable space on the front page of the "Gear Forum", have no relation to the apparatus, and are only for display of handiwork...read Petkal's first post introducing the thread for an explanation of the suggested parameters...I don't believe there are many hard-and-fast RULES (except no politics, religion, commercial sales, etc.), so much as friendly suggestions...and I love the seasonal threads; they connect me to the natural climatic changes all around the world, and how local photographers interpret those changes...
As for the NEX, I personally am always happy to see a young person enjoying a "real" camera. I'm afraid of photography following the demise of high quality music recording; that is, MP3's are as convenient for sharing music - but of an acoustically poor nature - as smart phones are at recording a scene yet not producing a higher quality photograph...so please, encourage him on; he's the future in more ways than one ...and show off what he does; my teenage daughters can go on a two-week trip across the country and come home with a dozen pictures from the first day, before the camera works its way to the bottom of the bag, there to stay...
Besides, my exif reader claims all the photos were taken with a 5DII, but I don't know how trustworthy some cheap online software really is...
That's because the other boy and I were sharing my 5d2 and 60d. haven't even downloaded the Sony pics yet, as he has pretty well commandeered that body...
Here are some of the 7 year old's -- most were unusable, but he had fun:
eskimochaos wrote:
Jerry, great images. They would really pop with some PP.
JMO.
I see that these shots lack a bit of "punch", but I've been looking over some of my recent landscapes (and, yes, comparing them to other folks' work), and decided that I often leaned too heavily on the contrast slider, or the tone curve, or maybe the clarity/vibrance...producing what looks to my eye like an unrealistic, hyper-colored landscape....perhaps now I've gone too far in the other direction, but this years leaves are a little lackluster - more browns than reds, and more yellows than oranges...reproducing reality isn't necessarily the aim of my photography, but it is a big part of it, and I have to go from memory while converting RAW files to something like what my eye sees...too often I simply can't make it look like what I saw and felt when I was there behind the tripod, and if I can't communicate that, I call those "failures"...and hit the delete button.
That's my logic, anyway...since almost all my PP "skills" are self-taught with the help of a few books, any suggestions are always appreciated; I've certainly admired your renditions of both NYC and Chicago, so I certainly think you know what you're about...
This is probably my favorite kind of autumn photo; a tiny portion of the fall landscape, almost a still-life, picked out with a medium telephoto. These were made with a (rented) 200 f/1.8L...
Jerry
