p.52 #1 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
@Teseg...Aruba, on my way!!! (dream a little dream!)... Nice shot!!
@Bob...the first two are fantastic! Love the rainy blacktop with the reflections!!
Gregg
p.52 #6 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
A few more from the RX-1. Have to send it back later this week to Roger. Think I'm going to miss it!! The 2 monochrome were converted from RAW, btw.
Gregg
p.52 #7 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
Very attractive, Gregg and Jochen, not to single you out but yours are last posted. The sensor is very fine for shadow detail and highlight detail, both. Probably theSuede can shoot me down for saying so but this looks like the extra DR to me.
At base ISO you get 1 stop more than the a900 and 2.5 stops over the most used current FF DSLR - Canon's 5dIII (yet it is just as good up to 25,600).
That is a lot of extra room to move - for blonde highlights in a young boy's hair, and good colour tone and contrast in rocks and concrete blocks at sunset. It's like around half the difference between colour neg film compared with slide film, much less blocking, and it provides much more creative choice re overall tone placement.
p.52 #8 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
Thanks everyone for nice comments and likes!
twoeye, great to see you here. What will you do with "my" ZE 35/1.4 now..? I like your abstract urban set. Really nice use of light vs shadows and colors vs shapes. Bob, sorry to hear about the dust spot! Hope you'll have the camera back soon. The two B&W from your recent set looks great. Your conversions are really nice. Gregg, very nice photos. I especially like the ones of your(?) boy and the B&W ones. Tom, the first is lovely! The water looks like silk and the greens are so fresh. Ryan, nice set from the cemetery. Jochen, great mood in that one!
p.52 #10 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
Thanks Philip and Helena.
So different now that the snow's gone Helena. I like the farm/church and the café best.
What happened to the first one BTW? It looks like a small part of the photo is missing, top right (you see it better when you click on it).
p.52 #11 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
Thank you Jochen! Oops, you're right. The horizon needed straightening, so I rotated the photo and wasn't careful enough when cropping. I have fixed and replaced it now.
Btw. it's always interesting how one's own favorites often are different to what everyone else likes. I like the first the most, then the café. The farm/church the least because it's cluttered and the sky looks like I over-used "clarity" even though I haven't touched it.
p.52 #12 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
HelenaN wrote:
Thank you Jochen! Oops, you're right. The horizon needed straightening, so I rotated the photo and wasn't careful enough when cropping. I have fixed and replaced it now.
Btw. it's always interesting how one's own favorites often are different to what everyone else likes. I like the first the most, then the café. The farm/church the least because it's cluttered and the sky looks like I over-used "clarity" even though I haven't touched it.
Yes our preferences are all different. I like the first one the least. Not because of the composition, but because (for my taste) the light is too harsh for this scene. It looks like it was shot at noon.
p.52 #13 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
Jochenb wrote:
Yes our preferences are all different. I like the first one the least. Not because of the composition, but because (for my taste) the light is too harsh for this scene. It looks like it was shot at noon.
Yes, it was and I thought the light was wonderful that day. There were several other photographers out and even a model shoot going on close to this spot.
(I better add that I'm not the least bit offended. I just find it fascinating that people's tastes can differ so much.)
p.52 #14 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
HelenaN wrote:
(I better add that I'm not the least bit offended. I just find it fascinating that people's tastes can differ so much.)
I'm glad about that. Maybe I also like the farm/church because we don't see those kind of buildings over here. They look so charming. Colorful, made of wood,...
p.52 #15 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
Thank you Helena! The youngest is also a boy, Giovanni. My wife and I get the " is that a boy?", a lot. And it's ok, he has very feminine features, and several friends have commented that he could pose as cupid, or as a cherub!!!
I agree with Jochen. I really like the cafe shot, too. Something about it just catches my eye!! And I like the red buildings, too. I don't think the sky looks too pp'd. I've noticed that the with the RX1, it's very easy to do too much, and get that HDR look, when not even trying!!
And it is very easy to push shadows way beyond what I would expect! I think it even outdoes my 1D4!
Gregg
p.52 #16 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
Helena,
I like your cafe shot the best because it has perfect composition, very simple lines, and nice color. The compositions of the first and third do not work for me. The farm and church shot has a sky ruined by yourpolarizer as it makes the sky too dark blue in the left top corner and is not even across the frame. I would use a gradient and mask in ps to fix it. I remember your polarizer doing something similiar in some of your Lofoten shots. Is this the same one? I would try a B&W slim one like I have. It performs very evenly across the frame.
Looks great, Tariq. I just haven't been getting along with this X100s, so I ordered the RX1 a few days ago, and I also hope to enjoy using it on our 15mo. old.
p.52 #19 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
douglasf13 wrote:
Looks great, Tariq. I just haven't been getting along with this X100s, so I ordered the RX1 a few days ago, and I also hope to enjoy using it on our 15mo. old.
Thanks Douglas. I can't tell my wife I posted an image of one of our kids as she usually freaks out about stuff like that.
I'm sure the RX1 will feel very familiar to you, particularly if you get the EVF. The lens/ IQ continues to surprise me - in a very positive way. I can't recall the last time I owned a lens which seemed to be good at just about everything. Nice bokeh and contrast for people/ portraits yet as sharp as you would ever want for landscape and other subject matter. Surprisingly to me, I find myself using face detection AF when shooting the kids pretty often.
p.52 #20 · Sony RX1, RX1R, RX1R II and RX1R III Image Thread
Tariq Gibran wrote:
Thanks Douglas. I can't tell my wife I posted an image of one of our kids as she usually freaks out about stuff like that.
I'm sure the RX1 will feel very familiar to you, particularly if you get the EVF. The lens/ IQ continues to surprise me - in a very positive way. I can't recall the last time I owned a lens which seemed to be good at just about everything. Nice bokeh and contrast for people/ portraits yet as sharp as you would ever want for landscape and other subject matter. Surprisingly to me, I find myself using face detection AF when shooting the kids pretty often.
Yeah, I've been following your posts a bit, and I'm excited about the IQ. I figure that it'll shoot more or less like a NEX, which I'm ok with, since I can't quite get along with the X100s, and the m240 is too pricey for me. I'll keep the face detection thing in mind.
I ordered both the EVF and a Voigtlander OVF, since I've been doing some zone focusing stuff, lately. I hope Sony fixes the auto-return to infinity focus when powering down, though.
(dream a little dream!)... Nice shot!!
I like your abstract urban set. Really nice use of light vs shadows and colors vs shapes.
