p.2 #1 · Iceland Summer 2016 with A7RII and Zeiss lenses
mcbroomf wrote:
It does seem to me that you've hit the shadows/blacks pretty hard on a lot of these images. Not sure if that was intended as I don't recall this from other images you've posted.
Do you think, that the darker parts are too dark now? Or that the contrast is too high?
I don't think that I changed my post processing style significantly compared to earlier images.
But I changed fone thing: it is the first time that I epxorted the images in Adobe98 Color space, before I used always SRGB for my web images.
Do you use a color-space-aware web browser like Firefox?
p.2 #3 · Iceland Summer 2016 with A7RII and Zeiss lenses
Bobu wrote:
Thanks a lot for your kind words. I'm happy to answer any questions about my images but at the moment I'm not 100% sure in which aspects you are most interested. How to choose the right location and/or right time? How to compose the image? Or how to post process to image?
It would probably be useful to ask some more specific questions and also tell me the # of the images you want to know more about.
But nevertheless I'll start with some additional background information about a few of the above images:
The hicking trail is on the left side of the river. In order to get there you have to cross the river and then climb a couple of meters down into canyon. For an even better viewpoint you would need climbing gear and a rope (which I would probably bring next time).
#7: I did the hike twice to Viti on the same day. Late afternoon there was a nice light but too many people. Directly at sunset it was very cloudy and raining. Nevertheless I took my chance and went a second time up to the crater lake. I was alone there and suddenly I got a colorful sky.
#50: Nearly everbody shoots the Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon from above (which I also did). But in addition I put on my wading trousers and walked inside the canyon to get a different perspective.
#52 and #53: Both images were shot during a heavy rainfall using an umbrella. In this moment I was alone even at the iconic Svartifoss.
#9, #11, #12, #27, #56: I've been to all these places on about ten different days (although not on this single trip), always hoping for some spectacular and different conditions. It makes sense to return to really interesting places.
Short summary: a little bit of extra effort often pays off
Those are exactly the kinds of details that I was most interested in--the efforts and time and return visits and disappointments and repetitions that one has to go through to get the kinds of images that you got.
The other element that I would most like to hear more about is how you got the extraordinary light in some for the images: 6, 15, 17, 24, 28, 29, 32 all have beautiful and special light. How did that come about? A combination of waiting and planning and return visits? Then some additional elements of processing?
Thank you for the detailed information. It helps one both to appreciate and to learn.
p.2 #5 · Iceland Summer 2016 with A7RII and Zeiss lenses
Bobu wrote:
Do you think, that the darker parts are too dark now? Or that the contrast is too high?
I don't think that I changed my post processing style significantly compared to earlier images.
But I changed fone thing: it is the first time that I epxorted the images in Adobe98 Color space, before I used always SRGB for my web images.
Do you use a color-space-aware web browser like Firefox?
Boris
I was using Chrome so I opened the page on the same monitor with FF and really couldn't see a difference. I'm not sure if it's high(er) contrast or just deeper shadows, and of course it could just be personal taste on my part.
Great images either way though and good luck with the book. I've just made a test book of a place I've been shooting for a few years and it's very rewarding. Good to see the A7R2's are holding up in rough conditions, I travel with a pair myself and I'm more nervous with them than I ever was with Canon 1ds bodies.
p.2 #6 · Iceland Summer 2016 with A7RII and Zeiss lenses
chiron wrote:
The other element that I would most like to hear more about is how you got the extraordinary light in some for the images: 6, 15, 17, 24, 28, 29, 32 all have beautiful and special light. How did that come about? A combination of waiting and planning and return visits? Then some additional elements of processing?
chiron
First, in Iceland the light changes very quickly and very often. If you don't like the light (or the weather) just wait an hour.
Also the transition phases between rain and sunshine often deliver the nicest and most dramatic light for landscape images (some sunlight combined with dark clouds). And since in Iceland the weather changes so often you get a lot of these transition phases.
Regarding the above images:
On the images 6, 24, 28, 29, 32 there was just an overcast cloudy sky which is often necessary to handle the high image contrast of waterfall scenes and also helps to emphasize certain colors. In post processing a boost of the global image contrast is often useful.
The images 15 and 17 were shot at exactly one of these transition phases between sunshine and rain.
p.2 #8 · Iceland Summer 2016 with A7RII and Zeiss lenses
mcbroomf wrote:
Good to see the A7R2's are holding up in rough conditions, I travel with a pair myself and I'm more nervous with them than I ever was with Canon 1ds bodies.
Mike
So far my two A7RII's are very reliable. The only problem I ever had was dust on the sensor.
After adjusting my strategy and using both bodies at the same time with different lenses to reduce lens changes in the field this problem is now nearly gone. Before I had just used one body and carried the other body just as a backup body in case of technical problems.
p.2 #10 · Iceland Summer 2016 with A7RII and Zeiss lenses
Amazing shots, thanks for sharing!
I'm a little curious as to why you took both the Batis 18 and Loxia 21 given the very similar focal lengths. Other than the 3mm difference, AF vs MF, and weather sealing, did you find much practical difference between them when shooting them in the field?
p.2 #12 · Iceland Summer 2016 with A7RII and Zeiss lenses
MrTMan wrote:
I'm a little curious as to why you took both the Batis 18 and Loxia 21 given the very similar focal lengths. Other than the 3mm difference, AF vs MF, and weather sealing, did you find much practical difference between them when shooting them in the field?
3mm at superwideangle focal length is still a signifcant difference. I would prefer something like 15mm and 21mm, instead of 18mm and 21mm but so far haven't found a convincing lens wider than 18mm.
I gave up to find a good sample of the Voigtländer 15mm (after testing 5 samples) and the Zeiss 15mm, which I owned before, is in my opinion too large for the A7RII.
p.2 #19 · Iceland Summer 2016 with A7RII and Zeiss lenses
Stunning is right. Someday I will be there as well...
Apr 16, 2017 at 06:52 AM
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p.2 #20 · Iceland Summer 2016 with A7RII and Zeiss lenses
This is so cool... As always when Boris is involved.
As for the wider lenses... Kinda hard to recommend since you're not using DSLR anymore, but what about Samyang 14mm AF? Zeiss 16-35mm f/4? Sony 10-18mm f/4?
