I was shooting at this location in Val d’Orcia, Tuscany one afternoon with @ManuelLaMantia in 2019. There was a pro photographer that was shooting for a bride magazine and yes, his model was wearing a bride gown. He graciously allowed us to take some images and I ended up shooting a lot, in addition to shooting landscape there. I processed a few and posted them in this thread. I went back recently and there are tons of keepers that I slotted as to be processed but I never did. Here is one of them (crossposted in another thread)…
It rained almost the entire day, I cannot recall the last time this happened at this location. I love being outdoors in late summer rain, everything just seems to breathe. Some weathersealing on the A9 and 20G comes in handy now and then : )
Used Rawtherapee for all of these. Unlike Darktable it has a couple of standard profiles that are pretty full of color. Darktable defaults to withered husks that one can perform pretty potentially artifact-free surgery on but, well, time flies : )
Here are some mostly portraits I took with my 24 GM during our first backpacking trip since 2020, with a bonus picture of me from a friends new 24-70 v2. Really impressed with the colors on the new zoom lens, and still in love with the 24 GM.
ILCE-7RM2FE 24mm F1.4 GM lens24mmf/5.01/250s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM2FE 24mm F1.4 GM lens24mmf/1.41/2500s80 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM2FE 24mm F1.4 GM lens24mmf/2.81/1600s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM2FE 24mm F1.4 GM lens24mmf/5.01/320s64 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM3FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II lens70mmf/2.81/800s100 ISO+1.0 EV
Looking at pexels flowers from my Garden.
Image cropped from left and right and taken with tripod mounted A1 and Voigtlander 110 Macro Apo-Lantha, FE mount. 2 Macro Focusing rails were used to position the camera and lens on the tripod head and tripod. The lower focusing rail for the X-axis (left and right postioning) was the Leofoto MP-180S and the upper focusing rail for the Y-axis (front and back positioning) was the Swebo LS001. Lighting with Adaptalux studio with Control Pod 3.0 on mini tripod and 3 white LED light arms used.
ISO 100, f11, 0.5 Second; silent shutter.
Exposure Corrected -0.26 Stops.
August 28, 2022
In my kitchen set up as a mini studio; Breinigsville, PA.
I guess 50mm is my Jam , I have amassed a few 50ish vintage lenses over the past couple of months. Unfortunately they are not as cheap as they. were a few years ago , except maybe the Konicas. So far I have acquired ...
Super Tak 55mm F2
Super Tak 50mm 1.4
Super Tak 135mm 2.5
Fujinon 55mm 1.8
Zeiss Jena Biotar 58mm F2
Konica Hexanon AR 57mm f1.4
Konica Hexanon AR 50mm f1.4
Contemplating the Zeiss Jena Pancolar 80mm 1.8 but the longer they are the harder it is to nail the shot ..wide open anyway.
So many lenses, so little time...... I like the Konica's over the M42 lenses because the adapter is smaller , I know Leica screw mount , and Canon LTM also have smaller adapters, so those are on the future purchase list.
Sunday hike to the local waterfall with relaxed afternoon below hundred years platans on the green veranda of taverna on the trout farm.
Hedonism is beatifull way of life!)))
A9 + Zeiss 50 1.4 FE
Look at the bokeh of the first shot - magic of this lens)
ILCE-9FE 50mm F1.4 ZA lens50mmf/1.41/8000s500 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-9FE 50mm F1.4 ZA lens50mmf/1.41/2500s1250 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-9FE 50mm F1.4 ZA lens50mmf/1.41/3200s1250 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-9FE 50mm F1.4 ZA lens50mmf/1.41/3200s1250 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-9FE 50mm F1.4 ZA lens50mmf/1.41/4000s1250 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-9FE 50mm F1.4 ZA lens50mmf/1.41/16000s1250 ISO0.0 EV
images last few pages!
