I went out for a 15 mile bike ride along the river yesterday morning early before the 90+ degree heat. I took my A7R2 with just one lens the FE 24-70 f/2.8 GM and with just a polarizing filter.
I came upon this dam in the river that I wanted to shoot. But there was a lot of foam/bubbles in the water and I decided to try out the Sony Smooth Refections APP since I didn't have my ND filters with me. I had no tripod so I set the camera on a rock in the river and took several shots without the SR APP for DOF in the foreground and distant background then a shot using the SR App set at 128 images.
Below is one of the pics without the SR App that I used in PScc to blend the trees in the distant background which were much more in focus due to a steady breeze blowing during the SR App shot.
The final shot shows how nice the SR App rendered so smoothly the messy distracting water in the river. I used a third non-SR App shot for the foreground rock and tree branch floating in the river. The tree branch came out blurry in the SR App shot due to the river water flow movement. So a simple blend of the branch and the foreground rock was all that was needed to fix that. I removed several distracting elements in the final blended image. I'm really impressed with the SR App and very glad that I had it to use when using such a scaled down kit for my bike ride.
Happy Memorial Day!
Chuck
Non-Smooth Reflection App shot for distant trees
Final blended Smooth Reflection (128 images) image
Bob, I like that 10mm a lot! Great shots. These are a few more shots around the yard as I get better acquainted with FE 90/2.8. I've got to start thinning out the lens collection.
puckman wrote:
So 400 works well even with TC and adapter? That's impressive. Even tracking is good? In what mode do you run it? Wide with AF lock on for stuff like this?
Yes, it does and quite well actually. Even tracking is not bad. The only drawback is the lack of a few AF features offered by a native lens. Of course, at this focal length, I am not worried about Eye AF but the Lock-on AF (with Selectable and Expandable AF points) would be actually very useful in this case. But it is what it is.
Four shots from Hjulforsen, Esse, Western Finland. All with A7. Haven't had any luck downloading the Smooth reflection app so I had to go old style with ND filters.
AGeoJO wrote:
Yes, it does and quite well actually. Even tracking is not bad. The only drawback is the lack of a few AF features offered by a native lens. Of course, at this focal length, I am not worried about Eye AF but the Lock-on AF (with Selectable and Expandable AF points) would be actually very useful in this case. But it is what it is.
Has anyone tried the new Sigma MC-11 adapter? From description seems it has all features offered by a native lens.
Manuel
ManuelLaMantia wrote:
Has anyone tried the new Sigma MC-11 adapter? From description seems it has all features offered by a native lens.
Manuel
I just sold mine to Luz about 2 hours ago. She will use that in combo with the Sigma 150-600mm in Costa Rica. Mine worked well with my Sigma lens but I sold everything Sigma in order to use more native lenses now. Some folks had issues with the MC-11, especially when they attempted to use Canon lenses with it. Sigma stamped a warning in capital letters on the MC-11 that it is to be used only with compatible Sigma lenses. But that still didn't stop some folks of using that on their Canon lenses. Who could blame them ?
Here is a practice shot from this morning for Costa Rica using the FE 70-300mm lens. Yes, it is a significant crop of the actual file but still quite decent, I would say. I actually had another and better image of a more colorful hummingbird in perfect focus but too bad a part of the flower stalk covered some 50% of that bird. Oh, well, that's real nature photography. Unlike at feeders, those hummingbirds move around really fast, making it really tough to capture them really well.
good work everyone, alaya
