Looking out my Kitchen Sliding door across the retention ponds, farmers fields, to the houses and Post Office beyond and at the vibrant sunset sky. I was a bit slow taking the images and I had to add color to the sky to the best of my ability trying to recreate the even more intense boiling colors of the sky minutes before.
Cropped, tripod mounted A7r II Kolari Vision UT sensor modified camera and Minolta CLE 28mm f2.8 MC M-Rokkor lens.
ISO 100, f11, 4 seconds; silent shutter.
Exposure Corrected -2.35 Stops.
AGeoJO wrote:
Awesome images, Ronny! What else is new?
I have been doing my sharpening with just Denoise AI, too. Do you mostly rely on the AI default sharpening and noise reduction for that though or do you adjust it manually? Thanks!
Thanks
if you have 0 sharpen in the raw file in LR then I usually trust Denosie .. otherwise I set it manually
If the two of you are just using Denoise AI, I’m sold...
AGeoJO wrote:
Awesome images, Ronny! What else is new?
I have been doing my sharpening with just Denoise AI, too. Do you mostly rely on the AI default sharpening and noise reduction for that though or do you adjust it manually? Thanks!
AGeoJO wrote:
Helena, most of your images are in B&W and I found them very lovely but this set in color is just exquisite. in other words, I love the images in color as well or may I add, even better than in B&W ? Of course, that's strictly my opinion.
Thank you very much! I too generally prefer colors, but the light is often bad in summer here and I don't like greens together with blue skies, which is why most of my photos are in B&W now. Can't wait for fall! I know nature needs summer, but I would happily skip it if it were possible.
Some more left-overs. These are from when I was beta-testing the new Lensbaby Velvet 28 earlier this year. All of them are taken wide open where the rendering is similar to Monolenses/Monocles (glowy and makes "bubbles" around highlights), but stopped down it looks like a normal lens.
I haven't done any portrait or any people's photography for quite sometime due to the lockdown, social distancing, etc. This is from well before that...
More playing with the 100MP, and Topaz Denoise (and Sharpen for his eye). He was nice enough to come out an pose for me. Better but not there yet...
As for Topaz... I think I can get 80% close in Adobe, but Denoise does a better job at bringing out the textures, with a nice fine sharpening. Not sure I have the patience for it on a lot of images though, not exactly quick...
Looking at a Tricolored Heron.
Cropped and filpped, supported hand held out car window 200-600mm G set to 541mm and Sony A7rIII camera; silent shutter.
ISO 200, f8.0, 1/1000 second.
Exposure corrected +0.29 Stops.
January 2, 2020
Along Black Point Wildlife Drive, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, FL.
Dougo wrote:
Last ones from the Portland NSW cement works and a few shots of the painted silos on the same site.
A711 and CV 40
Wonderful paintings on silos ... many of those "geniuses" who define themselves as artists by smearing the walls of our cities, should learn from these beautiful creations. Thanks for sharing.
Manuel
135 is a focal length I really struggle to know what to do with and not really my cup of tea. I recently re-discovered a Pentax SMC K 135mm F2.5 during a clear out. It was far too long on my a6000, I tried it on the XT3 to see if the better EVF helped, no luck but Im pleased with this from my A7R2 today.. At F2.5 of course..
...The jeans!!!! 
