Samuli Vahonen
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HelenaN wrote:
Anyway, I have gotten a little tired of "straight" photography and feel a need to experiment.
Helena, we have space for all experiments here. Personally I liked the most your pre-2015 style, but I have slowly adapted to your style change and like a lot your Voigtländer images and more subtle style. Not sure yet what to think about Lensbaby or the blurrylens.
I find it constant struggle to find correct level of creativity and not getting bored doing "the same stuff". For me it's typical that at the end of winter I'm really struggling as everything is super ugly, but I really want to go shooting. Then at end of the summer I'm getting tired (creatively and definitely tired to post processing (not just actual post processing but selecting photos, which to process etc. as well)).
My recipe for getting bored has usually been "buy a 'new' 50mm lens and learn it", but after having 50mm lens from all brands, this will stop working  Next time I think I'll buy used A7, and send it to Kolari (now they have place in Europe as well, no longer big fuzz with customs etc.) for infrared conversion - this might be good experiment also for you. If you would shoot from tripod I would recommend to get 10-stop ND-filter, it will open many creative possibilities, but as you mostly shoot handheld (assumption, not knowledge...) this is maybe not for you.
For getting tired otherwise than creatively I find it helpful that I process the photos when I like - earlier I have had some kind of rush "I must get these processed". Now I decided that I will process them when I feel that I want to do it. For example I was in summer holiday 2 weeks in Lapland shooting and half week in Finnish Archipelago, total shooting days ~13. I have viewed and processed only first shooting day photos, and no pressure to "advance" to 2nd shooting day photos. Past years I would have rushed processing them, and it may have killed any interest for photography for months. They will wait in hard drive, and when time is right, I will process them. Earlier I have made the mistake that I somehow wanted to process photos in same order as they have been shoot, this kind of killed whole inspiration for photography on many past summers/falls.
Last batch of GM85 test photos. On Tuesday I had opportunity to do real shoot in old forest with GM85 and it's "new wider partner" of which rendering style I hope matches GM85. Can't wait to see the photos on computer.
Sony FE 1.4/85 GM @ f/2.2, 1/2500s, A7R @ ISO 100 - I was positively surpriced close-up performance on focus plane as this is no macro lens - not any kind of faults on pixel level, and even overall rendering appears good looking. Boke shows little symptoms of being "busy", but not bad.
Sony FE 1.4/85 GM @ f/1.7, 1/2000s, A7R @ ISO 100 - Sometimes GM85 manages to draw non-flat; I find the roof "tiles" (they are wood, not clay based) appearance non-flat and better representation of real life 3D-scene than on my other test photos. I need to experiment more later around this magnification (scene is about 80cm / ~2.5 feet wide), to see is this repeteable or one time phenomenon.
Sony FE 1.4/85 GM @ f/4.0, 1/500s, A7R @ ISO 100 - For reason or another rendering is super flat, on very rough surface with hard light coming at angle, I would have expected rendering to be less flat, but rendering is totally flat (gigantic sharpness on pixel level, but no contrast to make whole photo look good)
Sony FE 1.4/85 GM @ f/1.7, 1/8000s, A7R @ ISO 100 - Quite flat rendering considering rough surfaces and light coming in angle, few woods appear round not flat "paper cutouts glued to top of background boke".
Samuli
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