Danpbphoto wrote:
^^^^Love these!! I want them!!! Beautiful!
Dan
Thanks, Dan. It was a great experience to spend a few days with several sightings of moms and cubs. I will note however, that I found it easier to shoot with the a9 + 200-600 + 1.4x than I did with the a7R4 and same lens combo on a tripod. Somehow the tracking feature didn't work the same.
mspencer1 wrote:
Wow! Amazing shots!
Margaret
Thanks, Margaret. As I mentioned above, it was wonderful to see the moms and cubs. As compared to shooting adult polar bears and adolescents, it was much easier, because they were pretty stationary due to the fact that the cubs were only a few weeks old and unable to move fast. They also needed frequent naps and feeding.
MedicineMan404 wrote:
Awesome experience and wonderful shots. Treasures all.
Thanks, in addition to the opportunities to see and photograph the moms and cubs, it was fascinating to be way up north and experience how people deal with living in arctic conditions. It is quite daunting, we folk from the south would have a hard time surviving up there in Manitoba.
dallvr wrote:
Thanks, in addition to the opportunities to see and photograph the moms and cubs, it was fascinating to be way up north and experience how people deal with living in arctic conditions. It is quite daunting, we folk from the south would have a hard time surviving up there in Manitoba.
I can understand. We spent 4 days in Kaktovik, whole nuther world.
One from the new sideyard here in the Appalachian Mountains.
I have to say again that I love the Sony a7R4 imaging.
It's amazing to me how this image capturing device, coupled with a simple PP program like Lightroom. It provides images that I only dreamed of capturing with my old 4x5 camera, back when shooting commercial real estate and going to custom photo labs in L.A.
Canon and Nikon mirrorless are both rapidly closing the gap, but at the moment Sony still reigns supreme in full frame imaging.
Here are some recent shots with a7R4. All are 2-shot pano, except the last shot of the rocking horse gate which is single shot.
All shot with Zeiss manual focus lenses: Loxia 35/2, ZE 28/2, Loxia 21/2.8.
dallvr wrote:
That's a beautiful shot! What kind of noise reduction did you do on it? LR? DeNoise ai?
Ha thanks!
Been years since I used LR
For NR I use an old timey program called AI Clear...by Topaz. It was in the original Topaz Studio.
I've got the latested Topaz Denoise, in fact just updated it yesterday; but so far, for my tastes, nothing
beats AI Clear. I do think denois'ing is like a toothbrush...a very personal thing
Forgot to mention. Almost always I will denoise the background on a separate layer; but look at the Cardinal
posted above...I didn't de noise anything.
MedicineMan404 wrote:
Ha thanks!
Been years since I used LR
For NR I use an old timey program called AI Clear...by Topaz. It was in the original Topaz Studio.
I've got the latested Topaz Denoise, in fact just updated it yesterday; but so far, for my tastes, nothing
beats AI Clear. I do think denois'ing is like a toothbrush...a very personal thing
Forgot to mention. Almost always I will denoise the background on a separate layer; but look at the Cardinal
posted above...I didn't de noise anything.
Thanks for the info, I am a relatively new user of DeNoise AI and I appreciate the tip about denoising the background on a separate layer. The comparison mode for previews in DeNoise is pretty useful, so you can see Clear, Low Light and DeNoise. I have generally chosen DeNoise based on these previews, although sometimes I find Low Light to be the winner. I love the noise reduction from Topaz. I had a file from 2017 shot late in the dusk of a leopard. Using LR's noise reduction it was unusable. With DeNoise it cleaned up so well that I could make a 16 x 24 print that looks great. This was in the version where I could add Low Light to DeNoise. The current version makes you choose one of the three methods.
