p.260 #2 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
Last night, I reshot this scene because there was a huge specular highlight on the end of the tank car that ruined the photo for me. So I used a polarizer this time and also recomposed slightly to point the highlight in another direction:
Fortunately, my timing was impeccable, because just as I started folding my tripod, a railyard crew arrived to literally haul away the two cars. Another 10 minutes and I would have missed it...
p.260 #3 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
Jeff Kott wrote:
Werner, I am always impressed by your image processing - this is perfect!
Jeff, thank you very much !
Processing is done there but that's only a smaller part of the Pic.
It is shot with a Nissin DI700A flash radio triggered off cam at full daylight. Then mix the daylight and the flash to like(Manual exp). Here i wanted the background more darkish and the foreground (the plants) brighter.
(I.e: Day for night shot).
It works with the RX1's perfect because of the leaf shutter and it's full synchronization with flash.
If it is too bright i use a variable ND filter in addition to mix the light.
Then i process to my taste.
BTW: The wild rose on the previous page was shot the same way.
p.260 #5 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
arduluth wrote:
No reason it shouldn't work, but you'll need to have the write syntax. Just pasting a link to the page containing the image won't work. I hope it's OK that I do the embed for you once... Do a quote of my post to see the code I used to embed the image. You'll need the image URL, which you can get with a right click, get image address.
Let me know when you see this - I'll make sure to get your image out of my post.
For future images, I'd upload a somewhat smaller image to Google Photos. As far as I know, there is no automagic way to get resized images like you can with Flickr.
p.260 #6 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
Thanks arduluth for the img tag lols.
Here are some from the SF Moma this past weekend.
As I was coming out side to see that statue, there was a guy standing in front of it and I rushed to get the picture, but alas, everything was overexposed. I did what i could to recover. It could have turned into something special i think.
p.260 #8 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
My RX1r II did WWII this week (with a few Fuji TX1 images thrown in). Not much happens in this relatively rural area, but, amazingly, our local airport hosts what is said to be the largest WWII re-enactment in the world. My real father landed with the 101st on D-Day and most of the men I grew up with were WWII vets, so I am a history buff and try to attend this event despite the mobs.
The RX1r II performed very well for people-type pics, as expected. As a side benefit, being small and looking rather like a basic P&S, it didn't cause the subjects to lock up into stuff poses as they tend to do when you ask to take their picture and then point a big DSLR and lens at them. However, versatile as it is, it did not have enough focal length for images of distant flying war birds, so the Fuji got some use, too.
Without further ado - some of the pics:
A grizzled Russian sergeant major awaiting orders for a new assault on the eastern front:
A Navy Corsair swoops in behind an Imperial Army Kate torpedo bomber assaulting the US fleet in Leyte Gulf:
A young F4F pilot climbs down after having survived a harrowing mission in his slow, obsolete aircraft in the Zero filled-skies over Midway:
A U-Boot commander and his Erste Maat between missions in Lorient in the late war period when only 1 in three returned to port.
A pair of Scottish troopers, having just help to boot Rommel out of North Africa:
A B-17G takes off in the early morning darkness from a rural English airfield on its way to Berlin in 1944:
An English sergeant and his Bren gun carrier in the Normandy bocage:
Waffen SS officer in his 1941 Kubelwagen during the early stages of Operation Barbarossa:
While attempting to protect the invasion fleet at Okinawa from Kamikaze attacks, a Corsair is hit and starts to go down amidst the vapor trails from diving Kamikazes.
Resistance fighter in the mountains of southern France going into action in conjunction with D-Day:
Driver of a mighty Tiger I Ausfall E being forced to wait until it is too late before going into action against the D-Day beachhead:
Young American adventurer piloting a Curtis P-40 for Chennault's Flying Tigers prior to Pearl Harbor.
Of course, it wouldn't be the 1940's without a little cheesecake. This young woman poses beside her husband's Fairchild P-19 trainer, so he will have a photo of her when he goes overseas:
This girl used some of her precious ration coupons for some sweets:
A bit different than our usual fare of dogs and uplands, but we hope you like 'em anyway.
p.260 #10 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
Birddogman wrote:
Driver of a mighty Tiger I Ausfall E being forced to wait until it is too late before going into action against the D-Day beachhead:
Beautiful shots, with perhaps a little too much HDR-style tone mapping in a couple for my taste. However, I just wanted to point out a small mistake in the above text:
Ausfall means something like "dropout" in German. The correct word here is Ausfuehrung, or Ausführung, if your browser shows umlauts correctly, which means edition or version.
p.260 #11 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
Beautiful shots, with perhaps a little too much HDR-style tone mapping in a couple for my taste.
Thank you. Fair enough. I don't usually go for such flashy images - got kinda carried away with the warbirds as they are flashy by their very nature.
However, I just wanted to point out a small mistake in the above text:
Ausfall means something like "dropout" in German. The correct word here is Ausfuehrung, or Ausführung, if your browser shows umlauts correctly, which means edition or version.
Thank you - or, should I say, vielen dank! I had always seen that term abbreviated as "Ausf." and, with my weak German, incorrectly assumed it stood for "Ausfall." Of course, Ausführung makes much more sense in that context. I stand corrected (and now more knowledgeable).
p.260 #14 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
Whoa..that WWII coverage was very good. I'm a bit war history freak as well and my grandfather fought the russians in The Winter War so heard quite a bit of those battles from him.
p.260 #15 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
Birddogman wrote:
My RX1r II did WWII this week (with a few Fuji TX1 images thrown in). Not much happens in this relatively rural area, but, amazingly, our local airport hosts what is said to be the largest WWII re-enactment in the world. My real father landed with the 101st on D-Day and most of the men I grew up with were WWII vets, so I am a history buff and try to attend this event despite the mobs.
The RX1r II performed very well for people-type pics, as expected. As a side benefit, being small and looking rather like a basic P&S, it didn't cause the subjects to lock up into stuff poses as they tend to do when you ask to take their picture and then point a big DSLR and lens at them. However, versatile as it is, it did not have enough focal length for images of distant flying war birds, so the Fuji got some use, too.
Without further ado - some of the pics:
A grizzled Russian sergeant major awaiting orders for a new assault on the eastern front:
While attempting to protect the invasion fleet at Okinawa from Kamikaze attacks, a Corsair is hit and starts to go down amidst the vapor trails from diving Kamikazes.
Of course, it wouldn't be the 1940's without a little cheesecake. This young woman poses beside her husband's Fairchild P-19 trainer, so he will have a photo of her when he goes overseas:
p.260 #16 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
carlitos wrote:
Good Stuff! Not easy to create sort of "timeless" images these days.
Thank you! The hardest part is avoiding (or more correctly cloning out) anachronisms, as you are literally standing in a crowd trying to get these pics. The re-enactors are surrounded by people in modern clothes, drinking out of plastic water bottles, etc. Looking closely at the finished images here I see I didn't take enough time and missed a few - for example the guy in the #5 football shirt behind the two Scottish soldiers. Sigh.
The little, unintimidating Rx1r II was a big help with this, but I believe in asking permission to take someone's photo and it's still hard to keep people from locking up in stiff poses like this one. The two "cheesecake" girls insisted on giving me enormous $hit-eating grins and ruined an otherwise potentially good photo op beside a 1941 Dodge Command Car:
Oh well, the whole exercise was fun; and I was, yet again, very pleased with the little RX1r II.
A couple of gratuitous recent shots: Chase jumping into the lake to cool off on a hot June day.
