Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 11:23 AM.
Looking at a Painting on Wood entitled "Madonna Enthroned with Two Angels, St Denis, St Domenic, Pope St Clement and St Thomas Aquinas" by Domenico Bigordi (Domenico Ghirlandaio) painted in 1483.
Cropped from all sides, Hand Held, relying on Camera IBIS, A1 and Voigtlander 50mm f2 Apo-Lanthar Asph, FE mount; silent shutter.
ISO 1600, f2.8, 1/125 second.
Exposure Corrected +0.35 Stops.
March 23, 2022
In the Galleria degli Uffizi (Uffizi Gallery- Museum), Firenze (Florence), Italy.
Amazing eagle and owl images these last two pages. I am not a birder, but I can certainly admire the quality of these lovely images and guess at the skill and patience required to obtain them.
Jim
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 7:33 PM.
Looking at pexels flowers from our front garden.
Cropped from the right, Tripod mounted A1 and Voigtlander 110mm f2.5 Macro Apo-Lantha FE mount; silent shutter. 2 Macro Focusing rails were used to position the camera and lens on the tripod head and tripod. The lower focusing rail for the X-axis (left and right postioning) was the Leofoto MP-180S and the upper focusing rail for the Y-axis (front and back positioning) was the Swebo LS001.
ISO 800, f8, 1/60 Second (in a little wind).
Exposure Corrected -0.09 Stops.
June 29, 2022
In my garden bed in front of my home; Breinigsville, PA.
Sony ILCE-1
FE 600mm F4 GM OSS
ƒ/4.0 600.0 mm 1/4000 500
Sony ILCE-1
FE 600mm F4 GM OSS
ƒ/4.0 600.0 mm 1/2500 500
Sony ILCE-1
FE 600mm F4 GM OSS
ƒ/4.0 600.0 mm 1/5000 500
Couldn't catch the kestrel in flight...
Sony ILCE-1
FE 600mm F4 GM OSS
ƒ/4.0 600.0 mm 1/500 100
But I did get the hummingbird in flight. None of the shots snagging bugs were in focus though. Too slow a shutter.
Sony ILCE-1
FE 600mm F4 GM OSS
ƒ/4.0 600.0 mm 1/2500 500
Sony ILCE-1
FE 600mm F4 GM OSS
ƒ/4.0 600.0 mm 1/1250 500
Sony ILCE-1
FE 600mm F4 GM OSS
ƒ/4.0 600.0 mm 1/1600 500
Sony ILCE-1
FE 600mm F4 GM OSS
ƒ/4.0 600.0 mm 1/6400 500
Sony ILCE-1
FE 600mm F4 GM OSS
ƒ/4.0 600.0 mm 1/1600 500
I have a question for you BIF experts, what exposure metering do you use, in general? Does anyone use spot metering (linked to focus point) at all? I usually use "multi", with exposure compensation if desired. Sometime I blow the highlights on the mature bald eagles when the background gets dark even with exposure compensation at -1. I am wondering if spot metering linked to focus point would work better? But then I saw this from Sony's help guide:
"Focus Point Link:
The spot metering position coordinates with the focus area.
Note
Even if the spot metering position is coordinated with the [Tracking] start position, it will not be coordinated with the tracking of the subject.
When [Focus Area] is set to the following parameters, the spot metering position is locked to the center.
[Wide]
[Zone]
[Center Fix]
[Tracking: Wide]/[Tracking: Zone]/[Tracking: Center Fix]"
Does this mean, when using "spot tracking" mode and the spot metering linked to focus point, the exposure setting won't change once the subject starts moving?
Back when I was living in Florence, all I had to take with me into the museums was a sketch pad...
I hope that if you're still there you get the chance to go into some of the churches and see the paintings that are still in the chapel they were painted to be in. The lighting in the painting matches up with where the window in the chapel is. The perspective in the painting matches the height at which it is hung, etc. All those contextual things aren't available once it's in a museum. And there's some churches with Caravaggio paintings still, if I recall correctly.
Also lesser known than the ufizzi but much more unique is the museum called La Specola. Nowhere else in the world will you see the like... Romantic Era wax anatomical sculptures. Truly a wonder of the world.
naturephoto1 wrote:
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 11:23 AM.
Looking at a Painting on Wood entitled "Madonna Enthroned with Two Angels, St Denis, St Domenic, Pope St Clement and St Thomas Aquinas" by Domenico Bigordi (Domenico Ghirlandaio) painted in 1483.
Cropped from all sides, Hand Held, relying on Camera IBIS, A1 and Voigtlander 50mm f2 Apo-Lanthar Asph, FE mount; silent shutter.
ISO 1600, f2.8, 1/125 second.
Exposure Corrected +0.35 Stops.
March 23, 2022
In the Galleria degli Uffizi (Uffizi Gallery- Museum), Firenze (Florence), Italy.
Colin F wrote:
^^^ This may not answer your question, but if you're shooting a Bald Eagle against a dark background, why not go more than -1 on the EC?
Thanks Colin. At Conowingo, the eagles can go from not so dark background to pretty dark background like the picture below (no post processing, just convert raw to JPEG), there is little time to change the exposure in the middle of action. This particular shot was at EV -0.7. The eagle descended from blue sky to the water in front of the dam in seconds. The white feather was blown beyond recoverable.
^^^ Right, so what I would do is decide whether I'm going for the water shot or the sky shot, and set EC accordingly. Looking at that shot, I would have been at about -2, not -0.7. Plus, it appears that it was taken in harsh, mid-day light; not the time to be shooting anyway.
