Cross posted to the People Photography and Sony people threads
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I usually only leave the house without a camera to go mountain biking or grocery shopping. I should probably reconsider my habit of the latter.
Anyway, June is LGBT Pride month and our town had a "Loud and Proud" party at the Griffin Museum of Photography last night. I had my camera and in addition to being conscripted into taking some event photos (without a flash because I wasn't planning to shoot the event), my wife and I won one of the raffle prizes. She was delighted to have won some coffee. When I got home, my phone indicated I needed to finish up paying for my raffle tickets. I did that, checked Venmo and whoops! I paid the event organizers twice. They are a great local non-profit, and the photo is priceless. Totally worth the double donation!
I stumbled across this lens on craigslist and I am just so delighted with it, I may be overusing it. A 35mm I can get real subject-background separation with and which is sharp even in the corners wide open is such a luxury.
lensfan wrote:
Is that standard Focus Merge functionality? What's your impression of it? I have got Affinity Photo but never tried it.
I used the panorama feature. I've never done focus stacking, although I am curious to try the feature in the software.
What I love about the panorama stitching in Affinity is that after the stitching I can fill in the "missing" parts of the image, such as the sky with the inpainting tool. In this image, I filled in some of the sky as well as little slivers on the left and right.
I have a 35 GM coming today and I can’t wait to start using it. I also really like how fast 35s blur stuff out. Without the exaggerated compression it just looks more natural to my eyes.
Garuna wrote:
35 1.4 is a great lens aperture combination. At 35 you don’t want too much blurring…just a bit of it, otherwise context gets lost.
