Here are a few more from Bryce. This is mainly a family trip with my parents and kids. I got up very early for the sunrise though, but sky had no cloud. I quickly change the plan and give up the idea for capture the sunrise glow. Instead, I worked my composition to include sun star to bring some life to the images. The morning time is very quiet and peaceful. Only me and another photographer from Europe. Though he pretty much stay on a spot and I am running around to make quick decision on what I should do with the limit time sun is up and in workable condition. Before that, I truly enjoy the quiet time with bird and observe the lighting change. It was a great experience. around 8 o'clock, I went back to hotel to wake up my kids. A fresh new day started
The edit is quick, color seems intensive, but word will not describe what I see once the first light hit the canyon. I will leave it as is for the time being.
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The day before when I arrived afternoon, I had a good sky with lots of cloud, but I didn;t stick until sunset since my parents and kids are tired and hungry and they feel no comfort under high elevation.
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Hello zhangyue,
nice shots as usually. The first one is terrific and looks so natural. I mean well controlled effects, beautiful light. What about in B&W? And thank you for sharing the anecdote.
teiki arii wrote:
Hello zhangyue,
nice shots as usually. The first one is terrific and looks so natural. I mean well controlled effects, beautiful light. What about in B&W? And thank you for sharing the anecdote.
Thank you Sir!
I will excise the image in BW later.There were lots of images I don't have time to go through yet. Time is always a problem.
teiki arii wrote:
Hello zhangyue,
nice shots as usually. The first one is terrific and looks so natural. I mean well controlled effects, beautiful light. What about in B&W? And thank you for sharing the anecdote.
I agree with teiki arii Michael, although I'm quite happy to view the colour version posted. The luminous effect of the rocks is amazing, particularly since to me the rising sun angle should not be producing such strong tones - it's almost as if the rocks have a high reflectance.
I'm a bit like you at present. Staying with parents, taking photos almost daily, but little time to PP them and I'm working off an old MacBook pro that is pretty slow.
cheers,
David
This one was taken yesterday (P645D and FA 45-85). Luckily we drove passed the site, one I've always wanted to photograph, WAY before it was associated with Game of Thrones! I actually witnessed two 60-something women from a coach party, dressed in hairy capes wielding fake swords at each other in the middle of this road!!
The site is called The Dark Hedges, although the hedges are in fact ancient beech trees (See:)
I am not a Bond fan I might get it down the road if I am still with S. The only few features I think it is a real upgrade for me are: LV, and new shutter. but I also worry about losing wonderful color I got from S. For now I am fine.
I didn't reedit the old file for BW,(try not boring people here with the same image) but do a quick edit for a few while browse what I have. General speaking, I am use to color images myself and it starts from image taking until processing to finish. I enjoy BW images actually, just haven't devote my time into it. Convert image to BW with original image intention for color is not optimized I feel. (maybe I am a little purist here but I think I need a BW mind to start with, this means I have to give up some type of images that are not suit for BW)
zhangyue wrote:
I am not a Bond fan I might get it down the road if I am still with S. The only few features I think it is a real upgrade for me are: LV, and new shutter. but I also worry about losing wonderful color I got from S. For now I am fine.
Hi zhangyue,
I don't worry about S007's Cmos vs S2(006)'s CCD features. better at high iso, better colors and better everything according to people who have Leica M9 vs M240. Just a different way of working RAW files.
Except for the price, which is more realistic than ever before, it looks like a very good MF with perfect glasses...
A slight digression, but one that is still germane to this thread, albeit just for the P645D directly.
Thanks to Alex Munoz and Google for enabling me to find the link to Alex's very useful approach to customising colour profiles for the 645Z for use with Capture One Pro.
Following Alex Munoz's website, I have just used the Advanced Color Editor function in C1 Pro 8.3, to produce a camera profile: a C1 Pro ICC file (.icc or in fact .icm where 'm' denotes a manual edit of an existing icc file).
I started with the 645Z colour profile that was available from Alex's website. This was a slight improvement on previous customised ICC files I had created using a similar process.
I attach Dropbox links to my 645D colour profile if anyone wants to give it a try, and for the WB and X-Rite ColorMatrix test shots, the latter being used in constructing the 645D colour profile, as per Alex's video.
I don't regard this colour profile as 100% by any means, but it is a visible improvement on my previous attempts and I'm finally coming to the conclusion that I will be able to continue to use C1 Pro as my preferred RAW editor. (Phase One's attitude to the P645D / Z stinks, however commercially predictable).
Phase One's attitude to the P645D/Z and Leica S2 - S7 also means no native lens profiles are there but customised lens correction profiles are something else that a user may create (I haven't started on that learning curve yet).
I don't worry about S007's Cmos vs S2(006)'s CCD features. better at high iso, better colors and better everything according to people who have Leica M9 vs M240. Just a different way of working RAW files.
Except for the price, which is more realistic than ever before, it looks like a very good MF with perfect glasses...
I agree with different way of working RAW file part. General speaking, I found I always prefer some cameras' file to other in the end. Upgrade or not for me is not depend on technical improvement on paper but do I gain something important for my shooting on certain system. Hence, I am still using M9 and D700 myself
As for price, it is a welcome change for sure. Reliability of S and Leica electronics are always a question mark for investment to the system. but I will do it again give me anther chance. The result and shooting experience worth the risk and hassle as well as $$$ loss
I like them both equally. Leica R with Nikon is more user friendly. and the R lens I have are not optics perfect but offer a cinematic rendering I am after. S has more fidelity, the optics is almost flawless start from WO, the file has better tonality and color depth I feel. I really like its sensor. S Glass offer wonderful technical quality at the same time still keep the smoothness, render beautifully. Sometime, I wish more character for the 70,(but I wouldn't trade it for a character lens, maybe add one if possible) 35 is perfect to me.
Having problems with this lens.. So manual focus. I think I missed a large majority of the shots
Oh well.. It was just a casual day walking around anyway. S+120
I might get it down the road if I am still with S. The only few features I think it is a real upgrade for me are: LV, and new shutter. but I also worry about losing wonderful color I got from S. For now I am fine. 
