Big thanks to all who commented on and liked my set from Stockholm! Will post some more later. We lived there before moving to Norway and usually go back once a year or so to visit friends and just enjoy ourselves.
It's a great place for walking around with the camera. So much to shoot and most people seem to not mind being photographed. Normally I'm too shy to photograph people straight on and mostly use them as "graphical elements" in interesting scenes, but this time I decided to be more brave. When I got home and looked more closely at the shots it was a nice surprise to find that almost everyone who had noticed that I took a photo of them looked pleased or even smiled. Only a few ignored me and no one looked unhappy. I didn't get many good shots from this, but it's very encouraging for the next time.
Farm scenes taken during my usual walks around home (except the first that is from a place just outside Trondheim).
A7II and CV 40/1.2 E.
Looking at the sun as it is about to totally drop below the far hill.
Tripod mounted FE 100-400mm GM set to 397mm and A7rIII, silent shutter
ISO 100, f16, 1/200 second; exposure corrected +2.38 Stops
August 3, 2019
From the top of the Trexler Nature Preserve Environmental Center, Schnecksville, PA
HelenaN wrote:
Big thanks to all who commented on and liked my set from Stockholm! Will post some more later. We lived there before moving to Norway and usually go back once a year or so to visit friends and just enjoy ourselves.
It's a great place for walking around with the camera. So much to shoot and most people seem to not mind being photographed. Normally I'm too shy to photograph people straight on and mostly use them as "graphical elements" in interesting scenes, but this time I decided to be more brave. When I got home and looked more closely at the shots it was a nice surprise to find that almost everyone who had noticed that I took a photo of them looked pleased or even smiled. Only a few ignored me and no one looked unhappy. I didn't get many good shots from this, but it's very encouraging for the next time.
Farm scenes taken during my usual walks around home (except the first that is from a place just outside Trondheim).
A7II and CV 40/1.2 E.
North America's city centers - I've never liked it. Touchless concrete skyscrapers, shading streets, intersecting at a right angle. Beto. Glass. Steel. No mercy. This time, however, this place looks interesting, thanks to your efforts.
Here is a totally subjective photographic glance on the rich architecture of Jaromer/Jermer of Sudetenland in the past,the little,old city in the North-Western Czech Republic.
Pictures were mostly taken with the vintage OM Zuiko fast/special purpose lenses.I found them still a very good and attractive option - small,fast,extremly well made lenses with unique colour rendition on the Sony A7R2 's 42 MPX high resolution sensor.
LoCA wide open are easy to remove.Sharpness across the frame at f5.6-8 is very good.Microcontrast - of avarage Contax lenses,once stopped down 2-3f stops-the newer macro lenses are the best examples of it.
Colour rendition - this is absolutely unique.Something in between the best of C/Y Zeiss and Mandler's Leica R glass.I point it out for the colour-sensitive people-my brothers in colour reception at first.
