Ross Martin wrote:
Love it, very cool idea! You should post this in the ‘what lens has 3D pop’ thread, I’m feeling so much dimensionality here.
Thanks Ross, I feel this way about so many of the images I get with the 50-150. It punches above its aperture weight, so to speak, might be the level of contrast.
ketang wrote:
Thanks Ross, I feel this way about so many of the images I get with the 50-150. It punches above its aperture weight, so to speak, might be the level of contrast.
I remember your 35-150 images and those were fantastic. Do you still shoot 35-150? I agree this image is going to do so well in the 3D pop thread. Great shot.
Ross Martin wrote:
These are beautiful, Douglas! I especially love that first shot, draws me right in. I’m glad you got to go.
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Dixie National Forest, Utah
Thank you very much, Ross! Your marvelous foliage collection from Utah makes me drool. I need to put Utah on my bucket list for foliage trip. Maybe next year I will do that when I go out to Denver to visit my daughter.
Ref. the first picture in my last post, I tried to stand in the middle of the road to get the shot but there was constant traffic so I gave up.
A few more from Arches NP. I should have been more careful when using CPL when blue sky was present, I discarded some files because the sky looked exceedingly unnatural.
Turret Arch
ILCE-7RM5FE 20-70mm F4 G lens55mmf/10.01/60s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM5FE 20-70mm F4 G lens44mmf/9.01/80s100 ISO0.0 EV
Double Arch
ILCE-7RM5FE 20-70mm F4 G lens20mmf/13.01/125s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1M2FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens256mmf/10.01/60s100 ISO0.0 EV
ramesesthe2nd wrote:
I remember your 35-150 images and those were fantastic. Do you still shoot 35-150? I agree this image is going to do so well in the 3D pop thread. Great shot.
Thank you. Yes, I use both, but the 50-150 takes over some of the scenarios where I was using the 35-150. The Tamron is the overall best choice for me for overseas travel because I can combine it with a 16-35 and I don't need to switch to that lens as often as with a zoom starting at 50mm. Those two lenses also share 82mm filters and that makes packing simpler for landscape work. Finally, if I'm worried about theft, the Tamron attracts less attention on the street than the Sony and it is also cheaper to replace should it be stolen.
The 50-150 is a notch above the Tamron for IQ, so if I know I don't need to shoot wider than 50mm then I prefer to take the Sony. A lot of the landscape/nature shots I take are on the longer end, so that translates to a lot of use for the 50-150. Using filters is harder. I have a CPL on about 95% of the time and I had to try several filters to find one that could be rotated with the lens hood on. The one I found that works is by Urth, not a company I usually get filters from, and they happen to make the only 6-stop ND/CPL that I could find. I recently took this to Japan (low chance of theft) and was able to take a wide variety of shots with the 50-150, including waterfalls with the 6-stop filter. It might seem to contradict what I said about the Tamron being the better travel choice, except that I wanted to use the Sony more and my rational brain can admit the Tamron would have been the better choice if I was doing more shooting on the trip. I have a lot to edit before I get to those shots but I'm looking forward to processing them this winter.
