Gunzorro wrote:
A couple more shots from the Cispus River.
Variations on the same scene, one from the 12-24G and the other a two-shot pano from the Loxia 35. No attempt to exactly duplicate PP settings or "look".
Thanks Jim. The lens glare/flare of the 12-24G is holding up pretty well. Great images.
k-h.a.w wrote:
Thanks Jim. The lens glare/flare of the 12-24G is holding up pretty well. Great images.
K-H.
Thanks Karl-Heinz.
To continue to add to our understanding of flare/ghosts from the 12-24G, here is an alternate from my earlier post on the preceding page, showing just about the maximum ghost flares. No cropping this time, full image from slightly different angle.
Back after a few months where I mostly shot with the RX-100. I think I have hours of photos to stare at and get inspired by here! Wonderful job, everyone.
These are all taken with the Sigma 180mm f/2.8 macro. Really falling for this lens, despite its size issues:
To continue to add to our understanding of flare/ghosts from the 12-24G, here is an alternate from my earlier post on the preceding page, showing just about the maximum ghost flares. No cropping this time, full image from slightly different angle.
Very interesting Jim
Nexed wrote:
Back after a few months where I mostly shot with the RX-100. I think I have hours of photos to stare at and get inspired by here! Wonderful job, everyone.
These are all taken with the Sigma 180mm f/2.8 macro. Really falling for this lens, despite its size issues:
Great images everyone! Love this thread!
A couple more from the beach. Seems like the only think I shoot these days! I apologize!
Gregg
A7rll and Contax 50 1.7 MMJ
@f11...if this lens isn't sharp, I don't know what is!!
I just received a mint copy of the Voigtlander Ultron 35/1.7 in chrome from Jim (Grenache). It's an exchange program. Jim has my Zeiss Distagon 35/1.4 with front filter. We'll shoot for a couple of weeks and see what interest there is from either of us. No obligation but a chance to play with some glass.
I previously owned this lens in black and miss it. In chrome, it's like a piece of jewelry!
This is a close knit group . . . perhaps we need a Sony/Alt lens exchange thread
Testing out a lens today. Had to leave before the light got ideal, but what the heck. This single exposure with Zeiss 35-70 with 3 stop ND filter (Breakthrough Photography):
The outlook for a nice sunset from the top of Brasstown Bald in Northern Georgia were very slim. The sky was overrun with dark clouds and then the rain came pouring down. Then in the blink of an eye as the rain started to subside, the sun poked under the cloud cover just enough to highlight the rain with beautiful orange light. It was surreal to see and I loved every second of it. Although I was soaking wet and the temperature was dropping, I couldn't stop smiling.
My visit to Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore last Saturday gave me a chance to try the new-to-me Contax 100-300 Vario-Sonnar that I got from Fred a few days earlier. I didn't stay long since it was too hot, but I grabbed a few frames of the Chicago skyline across the lake in infrared (850nm).
Haze was so bad in visible light that I could hardly see the skyline, but I assumed that IR would cut through some of it. It did, but still wasn't great (contrast is pumped up quite a bit in ACR), although this is looking across 27 miles of water so I can't expect perfection. I had to shoot at ISO 1600 to get a fast enough shutter speed (1/1000) to avoid vibration from the A7R's shutter. This is at 300mm; aperture probably f/5.6.
I screwed up the opportunity to take this bird dance for about 2 seconds or so after waiting almost 3 hours yesterday. I had the Wide-AF mode on yesterday and there were some leaves nearby and the camera focus on those leaves no matter what I tried. While that mode worked really well on flying owls at wide open space but not so in this case since these tiny birds hang out at trees all the time and there bound to be branches and or leaves that fooled this AF mode. By the time I changed the AF mode, it stopped dancing.... . I could only capture the bird while it was perching on a branch. Oh, well. I will go back to the spot tomorrow and try my luck again. BTW, these birds are in the mating season and the male birds dance to impress the females. What else is new ?
