Helene, could you mention which Lensbaby u r using and on what camera? Does anyone have any thoughts on the where about of the A 7lll. thanks, really like being able to look at your photos. joanlvh
Went out to shoot this morning...mother nature didn't really cooperate. The overnight storm was late passing through, so color was not to be had. Still messed with the SR app, 4 30 seconds frames.
Fred Miranda wrote:
I agree. Lovely micro-contrast and colors
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I waslucky to be there before the flood. Actually my last day was the evacuation day.
You got lovely shots Stephen!
I did not mean to sound like I was complaining. Wednesday was probably the best day of photographic opportunities I have ever had. My only wish was getting an earlier start, but I have no one to blame but myself. Thanks for your kind words. Your Yosemite images are stunning and I learned from you about the SR app so I am in your debt both for technique and inspiration!
I have always admired shots like yours and Michael Frye's with great light on El Cap from Valley View with the rocks with snow....some day!
First time visiting Mission Concepcion which is one of the San Antonio historic Missions. The church is beautiful but it was undergoing renovations. The image of the light I posted earlier is from inside the church.
This image of the stairs is in a room before you enter the church. I just love all the texture in the walls. The group that preserves these missions had to use some clamps to prevent the crack in the left wall from widening too much.
joanlvh wrote:
Helene, could you mention which Lensbaby u r using and on what camera? Does anyone have any thoughts on the where about of the A 7lll. thanks, really like being able to look at your photos. joanlvh
Sorry, yes I usually do but forgot this time. It's Lensbaby Composer Pro II with the Sweet 50 optic. (On A7 this time but I sometimes mount it on my A7II.) I got it for Christmas and had doubts at first, but I'm starting to really enjoy the creative possibilities of it.
I was little worried about how boke quality of Leica's APO-Summicron-M 90mm f/2 is going to be, but it seems it's pretty good wide open and as expected improves when stopping down to f/2.8. In my opinion wide open boke quality is better than wide open boke quality of Zeiss APO-Sonnar T* 2/135 ZE/ZF, at least with large object size (like in this post example photos).
I was specially worried about corners due to very small 55mm filter thread size/front lens element size. In practice it seems that corners don't seem to suffer much, and corner DOF is not considerably thicker due to vignetting and Sony's thick sensor stack (focus plane curves towards infinity in corners as result of thick sensor stack). Naturally APO-Sonnar 2/135 closed down to f/2.8 produces better boke quality, and about same subject to background/foreground separation (=boke quantity) as APO-Summicron-M wide open.
So I guess it will be weight/size question, which is important when lots of hiking needed to reach photo location - APO-Sonnar 2/135 is pretty heavy and gigantic size. On other hand APO-Sonnar 2/135 has edge on close-ups as it goes 1:4 magnification, and does it really really well. I think next summer APO-Summicron-M 90 is more often in my camera bag than APO-Sonnar 2/135.
Few urban large distance boke scenarios = easy scenarios, no need to close down to f/2.8. I'm also pretty happy to see such good contrast on focus plane. Nice to have base ISO 100 and maximum shutter speed of 1/8000s in Sony FE cameras; would be pretty awful to need to use ND-filters just to shoot with large apertures. Even now I had to use ISO 50 in some shots.
Looking looking from the edge of Big Meadows across Skyline Drive toward Byrd Visitor Center
Tripod mounted A7r and Leica M 90mm f2.5 Summarit lens
ISO 100, f11, 1/500 second
Exposure corrected by + 1.55 Stops; processed in LR6.8
