p.88 #2Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
I was birding in the back yard within an hour of sunset and as I walked thru the house to the front, there she sat with the evening sun filtering thru the window. Not the ideal lens for the job but it did the trick.
p.88 #4Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
the backstage background was a composite
Sony a1/Sony FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
Strobist Info: 1 non-working Fresnel light with Godox AD200 inside camera right (was the key light as well as a prop), 1 Godox AD300 Pro + 80cm x 80cm foldable softbox for fill camera right
p.88 #14Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
ajamils wrote:
Amazing sharpness and colors. How much and what PP did you do?
Thank you very much! That lens is a superb performer, optically and AF-wise. As noted, I stopped down the lens to f/4 to increase the DOF somewhat since it was my first and only encounter to that type of race. At the same time, the IQ that the lens generated at that aperture increased.
I did minor and basic adjustments in LR after the import. I always brought the sharpness slider all the way down, not at their default setting of 40 but down to 0. For that particular image, I ran Topaz Denoise AI, not to removed the noise but the get their sharpening effect. Starting out from their default sharpening level, which varies from image to image, I reduce that setting to somewhere around 80% or so. Then I ran Luminar Neo on it. My 2 filters there is “Enhance” to about 10 and “Lighten Face” to about 10. The Lighten Face filter is more for portraits but I liked it here as it makes the face only brighter and not the entire surrounding. The water spalsh or blobs or drops were frozen under the high shutter speed, lending the appearance of extra crispiness of the image..
It was captured in sequence at 20fps and all images are sharp. Here is the image 5 frames further down but it actually doesn’t qualify as a “people image” but it tells the story alright.
p.88 #15Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
Thank you for the details. Amazing work!
AGeoJO wrote:
Thank you very much! That lens is a superb performer, optically and AF-wise. As noted, I stopped down the lens to f/4 to increase the DOF somewhat since it was my first and only encounter to that type of race. At the same time, the IQ that the lens generated at that aperture increased.
I did minor and basic adjustments in LR after the import. I always brought the sharpness slider all the way down, not at their default setting of 40 but down to 0. For that particular image, I ran Topaz Denoise AI, not to removed the noise but the get their sharpening effect. Starting out from their default sharpening level, which varies from image to image, I reduce that setting to somewhere around 80% or so. Then I ran Luminar Neo on it. My 2 filters there is “Enhance” to about 10 and “Lighten Face” to about 10. The Lighten Face filter is more for portraits but I liked it here as it makes the face only brighter and not the entire surrounding. The water spalsh or blobs or drops were frozen under the high shutter speed, lending the appearance of extra crispiness of the image..
It was captured in sequence at 20fps and all images are sharp. Here is the image 5 frames further down but it actually doesn’t qualify as a “people image” but it tells the story alright....Show more →
p.88 #19Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
Not your classic portraits, but absolutely portraits of who my son is. Unfortunately, the A7R5 couldn't compete with the A9ii with regards to AF and I ultimately sold it. Initial lock on absolutely better than A9ii, but it would quickly lose focus after a couple frames once things got moving.
Im definitely excited for an A1 mkii with the AI chip.
ILCE-9M2FE 50mm F1.2 GM lens50mmf/1.21/16000s100 ISO+0.3 EV
ILCE-7RM5FE 50mm F1.2 GM lens50mmf/1.31/8000s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM5FE 50mm F1.2 GM lens50mmf/1.61/8000s100 ISO0.0 EV
p.88 #20Portrait and People Image Thread using Sony
Ludvig83 wrote:
Not your classic portraits, but absolutely portraits of who my son is. Unfortunately, the A7R5 couldn't compete with the A9ii with regards to AF and I ultimately sold it. Initial lock on absolutely better than A9ii, but it would quickly lose focus after a couple frames once things got moving.
Im definitely excited for an A1 mkii with the AI chip.
Interesting to know that the A7RV couldn't keep up with this type of action. This is exactly the type of tracking capability I need to deal with my kids. And damn, that last pic surely benefits the STF/DS treatment. Though I'm not sure the 85 DS would be able to keep up in this situation.
