Chris_88 wrote:
Impressive macro series, Ronny.
Stephen: Very nice waterfall shot. The waterflow looks smooth as silk. I wish I had the time to take a few waterfall shots this past fall.
Douglas: Nice series two pages back. I really like the sunrise shot with the morning fog.
Joshua, Mitesh: Great birdie work. I'm more impressed that the 200-600 is usable with the 1.4x TC than the 600 GM's performance with the 2x TC, even though that just shows how far we've come. And to think that during the a-mount days, Sony never bothered to update those old Minolta TC's.
Thank you very much Chris! Beautiful night shot of Kita Kyushu. Not sure if it was damaged in WWII. It's amazing how the Japanese and the Germans rebuilt their countries after the War. I had nothing to do yesterday morning so I decided to go to the Baltimore zoo to take some pictures. It was a depressing and somewhat scary experience to drive through parts of that city, so run down, trash everywhere, people hanging around on the streets. I felt so relieved once I got on the freeway, then I had to deal with people hogging the left lane.
Anyways, here are a few shots from the zoo, A7RIV+200-600.
Cornerstone of the Consulate of the United States, Hobart Tasmania. Probably dates from pre-1842. The chisel patterns were a mark of each individual worker preparing their stone blocks.
kdrk888 wrote:
Thank you very much Chris! Beautiful night shot of Kita Kyushu. Not sure if it was damaged in WWII. It's amazing how the Japanese and the Germans rebuilt their countries after the War. I had nothing to do yesterday morning so I decided to go to the Baltimore zoo to take some pictures. It was a depressing and somewhat scary experience to drive through parts of that city, so run down, trash everywhere, people hanging around on the streets. I felt so relieved once I got on the freeway, then I had to deal with people hogging the left lane.
Beautiful shots from zoo, Douglas.
And yes, as one of the main industrial centers in southern Japan Kita Kyushu sustained its fair share of damage. In fact, the city was one of the first targets of US air raids on the Japanese main islands in 1944, which caused relatively limited damage. Later, it was on the shortlist of cities designated as nuke targets. The smoke caused by a previous air raid had reduced visibility above the city and hence it escaped the nuclear attack.
Looking at the sun as it is dropping below the far hill; actual sunset was at 6:38.
Lower portion cropped off, tripod mounted FE 200-600mm f5.6-6.3 G set to 600mm and A7rIII, silent shutter.
ISO 100, f13, 1/2500 second.
Exposure corrected +1.91 Stops.
October 5, 2019
Near the top of the Trexler Nature Preserve. Schnecksville, PA.
I'm going to have to do some more work with this old Canon lens -- results are looking very good for a lot of "non-technical" shooting. There's no way this lens can compete with modern highly corrected lenses, but it certainly has a lot of character and sharpness.
All images shot between f1.2 - f2.8, favoring wide open.
One of my biggest pet peeves with the FE28 was the softness and pixelation in low light and yet here you come with a beautiful and crisp image in the moonlight. Please tell me about your focus and exposure stacking methods, if you wouldn’t mind. What tool/process are you using to accomplish this? Speaking as someone who has not done this outside of HDR work.
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Was the camera underexposing on this scene? 
