I'm trying to catch up on this amazing thread of pics. Year-end is very busy for me so photography has to take a back burner for a couple of months. I did get a chance to take some shots while in New York City a couple of weeks ago. I primarily wanted to finally get out and test my new Batis 40 mm and Sony 24mm GM lenses. It was a perfect setting with Holiday decorations all around. The majority of these are hand held with a very few using my RRS mini table top tripod.
Thank you very much Peire! I can say the same about yours. The tourist board should pay you for sharing so many beautiful photos of Poland.
Thank you too Jim and Activatedfx for the kind words!
Welcome back Chuck! Very nice set from NY. I'd love to visit, especially in winter.
Some more from around the red farm. This was two days later (Tuesday this week). See how different the light was. Pink and golden, like something out of a dream. Unfortunately it only lasted about half an hour though, then the sun disappeared behind the horizon (at 2PM...).
A7II and Lensbaby Burnside 35.
As some of you have known, I bought a new long lens, well, new to me, and I have been testing the capability of the lens in the last few weeks. I ended up taking hundreds of BIF images, mostly of pelicans, California Brown and white. I am really happy with the really high rate of in focus images. Here are two landing frames of a white pelican and a 1.4X TC was added for more reach.
rji2goleez wrote:
I never should have sold my Leica Elmarit-R 28/2.8 v2 . . .
It's hard to give up stuff... For me it's extreme rare to have any "landscape like" stuff for such wide lens as 28mm that I almost never use this Leica lens. I don't like it's rendering style for anything else than landscapes. Maybe it's landscape rendering style looks so good to compensate the ugly boke
Leica Elmarit-R 28mm f/2.8 v2 @ f/8.0, 8s, Sony A7 @ ISO 200, B+W 110 ND 3,0 - 10 BL 1000x E 67mm
Carl Zeiss Planar T* 2/45 G @ f/8.0, 237s, Sony A7r @ ISO 100, B+W 110 ND 3,0 - 10 BL 1000x E 67mm
HelenaN wrote:
Thank you very much Peire! I can say the same about yours. The tourist board should pay you for sharing so many beautiful photos of Poland.
Thank you too Jim and Activatedfx for the kind words!
Welcome back Chuck! Very nice set from NY. I'd love to visit, especially in winter.
Some more from around the red farm. This was two days later (Tuesday this week). See how different the light was. Pink and golden, like something out of a dream. Unfortunately it only lasted about half an hour though, then the sun disappeared behind the horizon (at 2PM...).
A7II and Lensbaby Burnside 35.
Chuck Coyne wrote:
I'm trying to catch up on this amazing thread of pics. Year-end is very busy for me so photography has to take a back burner for a couple of months. I did get a chance to take some shots while in New York City a couple of weeks ago. I primarily wanted to finally get out and test my new Batis 40 mm and Sony 24mm GM lenses. It was a perfect setting with Holiday decorations all around. The majority of these are hand held with a very few using my RRS mini table top tripod.
Chuck
Great shots Chuck! And really fantastic high ISO examples.
Both you and Bob have really got that technique down.
HelenaN wrote:
Thank you very much Peire! I can say the same about yours. The tourist board should pay you for sharing so many beautiful photos of Poland.
Thank you too Jim and Activatedfx for the kind words!
Welcome back Chuck! Very nice set from NY. I'd love to visit, especially in winter.
Some more from around the red farm. This was two days later (Tuesday this week). See how different the light was. Pink and golden, like something out of a dream. Unfortunately it only lasted about half an hour though, then the sun disappeared behind the horizon (at 2PM...).
A7II and Lensbaby Burnside 35.
Gunzorro wrote:
Great shots Chuck! And really fantastic high ISO examples.
Both you and Bob have really got that technique down.
Jim,
Thank you very much. The amazing high ISO performance and the stellar AF of the Sony cameras and Sony and Zeiss lenses make it much easier to obtain these results.
Ronnie, great shot, you manage somehow to saturate your colors and still know how to not go over the line.
Joshua your new lens is a winner.
Helena wonderful atmospheric shots, I especially like the first one.
Here are a couple of BW's of an interesting (downed) tree.
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In 1895, construction began on Main Building on what was to become the Our Lady of the Lake campus. "
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