Surprised the wife before Christmas with a top-floor room at the JW, along with dinner and a concert downtown. Took my A7R3, 24 GM, mini tripod, and a masking hood that suctions to windows to reduce glare to get a few shots before dinner. Bad news is "blue hour" wasn't very good, but still fun to see what I could get.
Excellent work, everyone. Helena, I really hope you get your standard winter weather back soon. Being without snow for the first in several years, I do miss the snow further north. At least, it's nice to look at beautiful winter shots in this thread.
I haven't really been able to take many pictures this year so far. The first two panoramas I took, looked OK, until I got home and realized that I couldn't merge them, because I had taken one shot too little. Still mad at myself.
Chris_88 wrote:
Excellent work, everyone. Helena, I really hope you get your standard winter weather back soon. Being without snow for the first in several years, I do miss the snow further north. At least, it's nice to look at beautiful winter shots in this thread.
I haven't really been able to take many pictures this year so far. The first two panoramas I took, looked OK, until I got home and realized that I couldn't merge them, because I had taken one shot too little. Still mad at myself.
Chris,
Wow, that's a jaw dropping image! That's a bummer that you couldn't merge the other two images.... but what you got there is truly exquisite!
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I haven't used the pixel shift feature that much. Most of the time, I wasn't thinking about that capability and at times, I didn't have any real support, such as a tripod. Now, here is one from about 10 days ago in Vegas. I used my pocketable RRS clamp pod for this and it delivered. The details are simply amazing, even at high magnification. I definitely need to take advantage of this feature more for sure.
AGeoJO wrote:
Chris,
Wow, that's a jaw dropping image! That's a bummer that you couldn't merge the other two images.... but what you got there is truly exquisite!
Wonderful, Manuel, just wonderful! What lens did you use for that? I know it is longish.... was that your Contax 100-300mm? It looks like that would be suitable for me to use the Pixel Shift feature to really get the details that can rival files from medium format .
At the time of its completion in 1930, this was the largest and tallest hospital in the United States. It was also the only hospital with doctor's offices, hospital beds, and a parking garage all in one building.
This is a unique building in that it appears flat from a certain angle. You can get the full effect if you ride the river boat and look straight up from the river. I found this new vantage point from a nearby hotel roof.
At the time of its completion in 1930, this was the largest and tallest hospital in the United States. It was also the only hospital with doctor's offices, hospital beds, and a parking garage all in one building.
This is a unique building in that it appears flat from a certain angle. You can get the full effect if you ride the river boat and look straight up from the river. I found this new vantage point from a nearby hotel roof.
Canon 24mm TSE
Superb photograph of a fascinating building. It's instructive to look at other photographs of the Nix hospital to see how perfectly you've rendered the "flat" quality that other photographers have either failed to comprehend or regarded as unimportant.
genji wrote:
Superb photograph of a fascinating building. It's instructive to look at other photographs of the Nix hospital to see how perfectly you've rendered the "flat" quality that other photographers have either failed to comprehend or regarded as unimportant.
Thank you Genji! Your feedback is greatly appreciated.
AGeoJO wrote:
Wonderful, Manuel, just wonderful! What lens did you use for that? I know it is longish.... was that your Contax 100-300mm? It looks like that would be suitable for me to use the Pixel Shift feature to really get the details that can rival files from medium format .
Thank you Joshua!
It was the Sony G 70-200 f/4 at 200mm (as you maybe know the real focus length is around 180mm). I put manually all data on the left upper corner for portrait format and on the right upper corner for landscape format... probably not so visible. There is not plug-in for Capture One to do that automatically.
My loved Contax 100-300 died last year... the rear element became opaque in one part due to the yielding of the resin that keeps the glass glued
and at times, I didn't have any real support, such as a tripod. Now, here is one from about 10 days ago in Vegas. I used my pocketable RRS clamp pod for this and it delivered. The details are simply amazing, even at high magnification. I definitely need to take advantage of this feature more for sure.
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all data on the left upper corner for portrait format and on the right upper corner for landscape format... probably not so visible. There is not plug-in for Capture One to do that automatically.