Crazy busy with work and how quickly this thread grows, its hard to keep up with some of the stunning contributions in this thread.
Being time limited hasn't allowed me much time shooting, but I finally got the metabones adapter and had to try it out. It's nice to have auto focus with my Canon lenses, but this body makes manual focusing so fun.
Here are some images that I took last evening a little before sunset of Muscari "Bluebells" at Lock Ridge Park, Alburtis, PA. The first 2 images were taken with my tripod mounted Leica R 100mm f2.8 Macro Apo Elmarit lens and my Sony A7r and the second 2 photos were taken with my tripod mounted Contax (C/Y) 21mm f2.8 Zeiss Distagon lens and my A7r. All images processed in LR5.4.
rsolti13 wrote:
These single shots? The color/clarity is just awesome. Great look to these
Dpedraza wrote:
2nd one looks like HDR almost
Thanks!
Yes, those were single shots but as you could tell, they were not straight out-of-camera images. They were converted in LR by mostly bumping up the shadows and lowering the highlights. Color EFX Pro in PS was also used to add the tonal contrast of the highlights, bringing out the clouds. I also took some similar shots in the evening after it got darker. Although the Vegas lights were fine but the sky became sterile at that point. It looked too boring for my taste and the huge display at the "lagoon" (read: pond) became overexposed. You know what, rather than explaining it, I am attaching that image here, as well.
Taylor Sherman wrote:
Really cool shot, lots of color and detail going on. I think it could use less sharpening at this size, though.
Thanks. Didn't add sharpening, so slightly hard to use less of it. After fullsize 16-bit TIFF was exported from Lightroom it was resized to 1280px with Lanczos2-resampling filter with ImageMagick (command line tool for image processing).
I made You version using Mitchell resampling filter, instead of Lanczos2, it's much "softer" filter - maybe you like it better, I prefer Lanczos2 version: link (and Lanczos2 version again for comparison)
