p.106 #2 · Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
The lens doesn't have characters, the rendering is too clinical, blah, blah but I still like images taken with the GM 35mm lens. In my opinion, the final rendition can easily be adjusted to look almost anything you feel like rendering, even a vintage look. Here is one captured at wide open aperture and I went for a more gritty appearance of the subject's head. A similar, not the same image was posted in the big Sony FE thread previously...
p.106 #8 · Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
The workers reactions are a mix of curiosity at seeing this weirdo with a camera, and the knowledge that they know I will help with anything they are doing. I thank every one of them, for making it possible to be there. They are the salt of the earth.
(It's very nice of you to say so, Rob, thank you.)
p.106 #10 · Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
I just hold the camera, and smile, most of them speak English. Some of it is pretty basic, some of it is mystical. India is going through a phone obsession phase. They are great communicators so that's an easy fit for them.
I know them and their culture extremely well, and they do relax because they treat me like one of them, I've spent maybe two years total there; I've been going there for several decades, since they had only 650 million people. I try to get them to look mean at times for photos, so many smiles! One of the officials told me he would help me buy a place there, if I went that way.
They are extremely generous, as a general observation. The place is incredibly old (Vedic, Sanskrit), that's why the British loved it so much, and it would have been paradise on Earth in the Raj era. The Brits loved it so much they conducted amazingly deep research into its history, discovering the Indus Valley Civilisation (a contemporary of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia), ancient Buddhism, the early regimes, they deciphered the scripts (like Brahmi, Kharoshthi), languages and much more. And it is modernising so fast, it beggars belief.
p.106 #11 · Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
'Madhu primarily refers to the Hindi-Urdu, Sanskrit, and other Indian languages word for honey or something sweet.' Well, never a truer word, I definitely prefer Indian officials to the locals here in Australia. Here are two from the 75/1.4 Simera and a crop of the second. At or near wide open.`
p.106 #12 · Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
^ Images have this classic look I really like. Maybe classic isn't the right word but feels very natural and a little muted, which I really like, not sure if that's the post processing, the lens or something in the air/light up there.
p.106 #19 · Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
The nexus of preparation and opportunity, that's luck. It helps to know the places you like and go back, and if the people are happy and tolerant of odd characters in their society. India is very tolerant. Couple more to prove the point, lol. (I'm hoping we get more members to post photos from their lives.) And yes, the 50mm is very confidence-inspiring, is how I would put it - the bokeh is the best of all the Simeras. see below.
(I'm hoping we get more members to post photos from their lives.) And yes, the 50mm is very confidence-inspiring, is how I would put it - the bokeh is the best of all the Simeras. see below.
