Sony FE Images Thread
p.2755 #1Sony FE Images Thread
During the 1st big March Nor'Easter a hull from an old fishing boat that had been moored in Provincetown broke free and was blown onto a rock jetty that connects Wood End to the town. Another wooden framed boat was also blown onto the jetty further down with the side broken open.
The Artemis and the My Yot
After taking some photos during the day I want back last night to lightpaint the Artemis. The ripples on the front are from reflections in pools of water just in front of the bow. It's close to a full moon which cast the shadow onto the beach to the left (in the image).
Shallow Grave
The Artemis and the My Yot
After taking some photos during the day I want back last night to lightpaint the Artemis. The ripples on the front are from reflections in pools of water just in front of the bow. It's close to a full moon which cast the shadow onto the beach to the left (in the image).
Shallow Grave
Mar 27, 2018 at 12:57 PM
p.2755 #2Sony FE Images Thread
Amelia Island Concours D'Elegance
A7r iii 100mm STF
A7r iii 100mm STF
Mar 27, 2018 at 02:58 PM
p.2755 #3Sony FE Images Thread
A7riii, 100mm STF, processed in SilverEfx Pro
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Mar 27, 2018 at 03:00 PM
p.2755 #4Sony FE Images Thread
As new Loxia is 25mm, and I really needed and wanted 28mm, I continued search for good 28mm lens. I found used Sigma 24-35mm f/2 DG HSM Art, and decided to try it. Naturally it's good to take new lens without any testing for photo holiday 
[I did check before leaving that lens is not decentered and functions well]. Lens seems to work ok even with standard thick sensor cover glass cameras, so I used my A7r instead one of the thin sensor cover glass modified cameras.
On holiday I was few days in Tenerife to photograph vulcanic rocks/rock formations and Corona Forestal national park. It felt really weird to shoot with zoom, as I have shoot mostly with primes for last 10 years. But it got easier over the days. Now I feel like this lens is 28mm, with additional focal lengths, and shooting feels quite natural.
Based on initial photos it seems that this lens performs pretty well, boke behaves quite nicely and focus plane has plenty of contrast and sharpness. As I expected it suffers from "modern high performance lens" issue of high contrast in boke.
I just started processing photos, here are few first ones I processed.
Sigma 24-35mm f/2 DG HSM Art @ f/3.2 & 28mm, 1/500s, A7R @ ISO 100
Sigma 24-35mm f/2 DG HSM Art @ f/2.8 & 26mm, 1/400s, ILCE-7R @ ISO 100
Samuli
[I did check before leaving that lens is not decentered and functions well]. Lens seems to work ok even with standard thick sensor cover glass cameras, so I used my A7r instead one of the thin sensor cover glass modified cameras.On holiday I was few days in Tenerife to photograph vulcanic rocks/rock formations and Corona Forestal national park. It felt really weird to shoot with zoom, as I have shoot mostly with primes for last 10 years. But it got easier over the days. Now I feel like this lens is 28mm, with additional focal lengths, and shooting feels quite natural.
Based on initial photos it seems that this lens performs pretty well, boke behaves quite nicely and focus plane has plenty of contrast and sharpness. As I expected it suffers from "modern high performance lens" issue of high contrast in boke.
I just started processing photos, here are few first ones I processed.
Sigma 24-35mm f/2 DG HSM Art @ f/3.2 & 28mm, 1/500s, A7R @ ISO 100
Sigma 24-35mm f/2 DG HSM Art @ f/2.8 & 26mm, 1/400s, ILCE-7R @ ISO 100
Samuli
Mar 27, 2018 at 03:33 PM
p.2755 #5Sony FE Images Thread
Back to a session at the apple orchard - Sigma 135mm f/1.8 Art was used for that but Metabones transmitted the aperture of that lens as being an f/1.7 lens is a glitch . It was captured at wide open alright but f/1.8.
Claire
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Mar 27, 2018 at 05:11 PM
p.2755 #6Sony FE Images Thread
A7R3 and the CV 40mm f1.2. Processed in Lightroom CC and Tonality Pro
Cool farm on San Juan Island in Washington State.
Cool farm on San Juan Island in Washington State.
Mar 27, 2018 at 05:17 PM
p.2755 #7Sony FE Images Thread
Some scenes from Cleveland near the lakefront of Lake Erie
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Mar 27, 2018 at 06:25 PM
p.2755 #9Sony FE Images Thread
To Go or Not To Go
Should I
Looks Trecherous
I Did It!
A7rII Sony FE 24-105 f4
Should I
Looks Trecherous
I Did It!
Mar 27, 2018 at 07:00 PM
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p.2755 #11Sony FE Images Thread
Left the Godox in the car or I would have off-camera flashed this guy....so a test of ISO 12,8K with the
A7Riii.
I think the a9 does better with the huge ISOs but the Riii isn't so shabby
FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter
ƒ/8.0 350.0 mm 1/500 12800 Flash (off, did not fire)
I am found by MedicineMan4040, on Flickr
A7Riii.
I think the a9 does better with the huge ISOs but the Riii isn't so shabby
FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter
ƒ/8.0 350.0 mm 1/500 12800 Flash (off, did not fire)
I am found by MedicineMan4040, on FlickrMar 27, 2018 at 09:05 PM
p.2755 #12Sony FE Images Thread
Loxia 85mm - f5.6. Just a few hanging glacier remnants in this late August image. The road (center right) goes to the highest pass (around 5000m) in the immediate region. Plan to go back here in late May, when the scene may look very different. Summer is not my favorite time - too much light, too little drama.
Mar 27, 2018 at 10:12 PM
p.2755 #13Sony FE Images Thread
Another from the respected old mid zoom, the CY 35-70. Never fails to surprise how clean neutrals are alongside subtle shifts in color tones, blues on the 'bumpa' (round section) here. In the Tibetan way, they just paint over the oldest of chortens; the culture celebrates ageing in all things.
Mar 27, 2018 at 10:27 PM
p.2755 #14Sony FE Images Thread
Sony A7rII + Sony FE 24-105
Coto do Xirimbao by L, no Flickr
Coto do Xirimbao by L, no Flickr
Mar 28, 2018 at 03:33 AM
p.2755 #15Sony FE Images Thread
Apologies for no activity for the past month. Have been having a mental block shooting pictures.
Anyway, Autumn has arrived early here in Melbourne and took this shot at Mt Macedon.
A7R3, Contax C/Y 100-300, with Pixel Shift. 1/15s, F/11, ISO 100, @135mm.
_DSC2776_PSMS copy by Kai O'Yang, on Flickr
Anyway, Autumn has arrived early here in Melbourne and took this shot at Mt Macedon.
A7R3, Contax C/Y 100-300, with Pixel Shift. 1/15s, F/11, ISO 100, @135mm.
_DSC2776_PSMS copy by Kai O'Yang, on FlickrMar 28, 2018 at 06:24 AM
p.2755 #16Sony FE Images Thread
Sony A7R II + Zeiss Loxia 21mm f/2.8 by Ronny Olsson, on Flickr
Mar 28, 2018 at 08:53 AM
p.2755 #17Sony FE Images Thread
Hi guys .. want some feedback on color and sharpness on my pictures on this and the previous picture .. if you don't want to infect the thread, take it through PM
Has changed to a new monitor (Dell UltraSharp UP3216Q) and my pictures look a bit different in color
so I want to know I'm not completely off
Thanks
Ronny
Sony A7R II + Zeiss Loxia 21mm f/2.8 by Ronny Olsson, on Flickr
Has changed to a new monitor (Dell UltraSharp UP3216Q) and my pictures look a bit different in color
so I want to know I'm not completely off
Thanks
Ronny
Sony A7R II + Zeiss Loxia 21mm f/2.8 by Ronny Olsson, on Flickr
Mar 28, 2018 at 11:37 AM
p.2755 #18Sony FE Images Thread
Ronny, the sharpness in both images is fine. The color rendition of the last image looks fine on my monitor but the first one is a tad either too warm or too saturated for my taste. I don't know which is which but I wasn't there and I didn't see the actual conditions.
Hope this helps.
Joshua
Hope this helps.
Joshua
Mar 28, 2018 at 11:54 AM
p.2755 #19Sony FE Images Thread
Ronny Olsson wrote:
Hi guys .. want some feedback on color and sharpness on my pictures on this and the previous picture .. if you don't want to infect the thread, take it through PM
Has changed to a new monitor (Dell UltraSharp UP3216Q) and my pictures look a bit different in color
so I want to know I'm not completely off
Thanks
Ronny
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/872/41076892691_d038386c33_h.jpg
Sony A7R II + Zeiss Loxia 21mm f/2.8 by Ronny Olsson, on Flickr
Ronny -- I like your color choices very much.
As we've discussed before, I like your warm/cool mix and I follow that approach myself when possible. It provides a dynamic push/pull look to the subjects. As you've been showing, I have also moved toward an orange and blue dynamic (when possible), with slight shifts toward red/yellow on the warm side, and shifts from green-blue to blue-violet on the cool side.
I agree with Joshua that the first image might be a bit too warm, especially the close rocks with gull. The second is a difficult shot with the intense white of the peaks and the dark rocks in the foreground -- near or exceeding the DR of capture -- color is fine (except the peaks may show a little green/gold unreality -- perhaps a slight red/magenta increase in the overall scene and more on the peaks?), if a bit subdued compared to the first.
Your tone seems a little more subdued here than what I've been seeing from your for the last few months, some of which seemed a little too dark or theatrically over-wrought. I think you had the perfect balance of light/dark in your Icelandic beach scenes a few years ago with the ice "sculptures" and extensive sandy beaches. Still, tone is always one of your strengths, so please regard this as a comment, not a criticism.
I consider you a true master of color, light, and PP, and admire your images.
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Hi guys .. want some feedback on color and sharpness on my pictures on this and the previous picture .. if you don't want to infect the thread, take it through PM
Has changed to a new monitor (Dell UltraSharp UP3216Q) and my pictures look a bit different in color
so I want to know I'm not completely off
Thanks
Ronny
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/872/41076892691_d038386c33_h.jpg
Sony A7R II + Zeiss Loxia 21mm f/2.8 by Ronny Olsson, on Flickr
Ronny -- I like your color choices very much.
As we've discussed before, I like your warm/cool mix and I follow that approach myself when possible. It provides a dynamic push/pull look to the subjects. As you've been showing, I have also moved toward an orange and blue dynamic (when possible), with slight shifts toward red/yellow on the warm side, and shifts from green-blue to blue-violet on the cool side.
I agree with Joshua that the first image might be a bit too warm, especially the close rocks with gull. The second is a difficult shot with the intense white of the peaks and the dark rocks in the foreground -- near or exceeding the DR of capture -- color is fine (except the peaks may show a little green/gold unreality -- perhaps a slight red/magenta increase in the overall scene and more on the peaks?), if a bit subdued compared to the first.
Your tone seems a little more subdued here than what I've been seeing from your for the last few months, some of which seemed a little too dark or theatrically over-wrought. I think you had the perfect balance of light/dark in your Icelandic beach scenes a few years ago with the ice "sculptures" and extensive sandy beaches. Still, tone is always one of your strengths, so please regard this as a comment, not a criticism.
I consider you a true master of color, light, and PP, and admire your images.
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Mar 28, 2018 at 12:09 PM
p.2755 #20Sony FE Images Thread
Ronny Olsson wrote:
Hi guys .. want some feedback on color and sharpness on my pictures on this and the previous picture .. if you don't want to infect the thread, take it through PM
Has changed to a new monitor (Dell UltraSharp UP3216Q) and my pictures look a bit different in color
so I want to know I'm not completely off
Ronny, above photo is not good example for color, as it's processing is so wild that it's obvious that aim has not been realism but instead something artistic (e.g. the masks are way way way too broad and there is severe color bleeding from sky to mountain tops, edge of mountain against sky is way too dark, mountain shape effects how sky gets darker etc. etc. etc.). I love the artistic approach, but hard to have this as reference for your colors, very much out of your normal photographic style.
What comes colors itself to me they seem OK for artistic appearance, but trying to get so much saturation to sRGB has made weird issues. E.g. top left corner just looks weird (mainly due to artistic "over the edge" processing", but also low gamut sRGB contributes to the issue).
Sharpness is difficult to comment as you use Flickr. The original size in Flickr seems OK, but it has some artifacts from too much processing or JPG compression e.g. the small trees on right side of picture above the red house. The Flickr resized image is OK (trees are so small that you can no longer see the weirdness). Many people have been purchasing too small 4K displays (e.g. 27"), and since then their photos have looked just awful as they no longer see pixels properly, photos seem to come out randomly too sharp or too dull. I would recommend to have another "normal" (what used to be normal) pixel density monitor for checking final result sharpness. I'm using 30" 2560x1600 and 27" 1920x1080 monitors for "proofing" the "sharpness level of web images", the 4K display I have is just way too small observe sharpness (but nice to create 4K size versions of images, which are optimally sharpened for the 4K display and view images in the 4K display, looks so damn nice).
Samuli
Hi guys .. want some feedback on color and sharpness on my pictures on this and the previous picture .. if you don't want to infect the thread, take it through PM
Has changed to a new monitor (Dell UltraSharp UP3216Q) and my pictures look a bit different in color
so I want to know I'm not completely off
Ronny, above photo is not good example for color, as it's processing is so wild that it's obvious that aim has not been realism but instead something artistic (e.g. the masks are way way way too broad and there is severe color bleeding from sky to mountain tops, edge of mountain against sky is way too dark, mountain shape effects how sky gets darker etc. etc. etc.). I love the artistic approach, but hard to have this as reference for your colors, very much out of your normal photographic style.
What comes colors itself to me they seem OK for artistic appearance, but trying to get so much saturation to sRGB has made weird issues. E.g. top left corner just looks weird (mainly due to artistic "over the edge" processing", but also low gamut sRGB contributes to the issue).
Sharpness is difficult to comment as you use Flickr. The original size in Flickr seems OK, but it has some artifacts from too much processing or JPG compression e.g. the small trees on right side of picture above the red house. The Flickr resized image is OK (trees are so small that you can no longer see the weirdness). Many people have been purchasing too small 4K displays (e.g. 27"), and since then their photos have looked just awful as they no longer see pixels properly, photos seem to come out randomly too sharp or too dull. I would recommend to have another "normal" (what used to be normal) pixel density monitor for checking final result sharpness. I'm using 30" 2560x1600 and 27" 1920x1080 monitors for "proofing" the "sharpness level of web images", the 4K display I have is just way too small observe sharpness (but nice to create 4K size versions of images, which are optimally sharpened for the 4K display and view images in the 4K display, looks so damn nice).
Samuli
Mar 28, 2018 at 12:13 PM