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Karl Witt wrote:
#1 is glorious! One of my most favorite flowers Eric. Selectively I might consider cropping just below the fringes of that top flower?
#2 incredible .......passion
#3 nice work in tricky light!
Karl
Thanks Karl! I thought about it, and while the noodle looking parts of the upper flower could be cropped, the petals intersect with the lower flower and I thought it would look more choppy if I tried to "fix it" with a tighter crop. So I decided a hint of more flowers above wouldn't hurt. Still... now that you mention it, I'll have to give it another look.
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morris wrote:
Hi Eric,
The exif shows:
Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/8.0 382.0 mm 1/160 iso640 16mm Ext
I'd expect you could go a lot higher than ISO 640. Were you cropping a lot?
Morris
Yup. You would think I could push it a lot more wouldn't ya? There was definitely some cropping too, about down to APSC from FF.
I can push the hell out of that 61MP sensor in bright daylight, no problem ISO2000 so I can get the shutter speed up for BIF? Sure, no problem, but in certain shadowy or dark scene's, much above ISO800 induces a different kind of noise, and some color noise. By the time I would do noise reduction, I'd say screw it, because the glorious detail I want for a near-macro type shot would be gone. Sure, it would look presentable to those who didn't see the original, but I'd know what was lost, and that stuff bugs me. At that point, I'd pass on the shot and keep walking. Heck, ISO100 can be noisy on that sensor if underexposed too much and having to push it back up a lot, heh. You may laugh, but when trying to save highlights, I often expose waaaay under... my RAW's would look silly dark to some people, but shooting a low ISO lets me bring them back and keep the detail in the whites. So, it definitely can be pushed, but it has its quirks and you have to pick your battles. When I want silly amounts of resolution though, staying below ISO 500 and preferably at base ISO100 is where I want to be.
Sorry, but more DOF was not high on my list of wants, and certainly not high enough to want to kill the detail. Like I said, if anything, I'd have done the opposite and taken less DOF to get better detail in the pistol/stamens, a fine trade off if it was up to me.
Without meaning to sound flippant, this is where people would insert the saying "If I wanted a shot with everything in flat focus I'd have just used my cell phone". 
Oh, and Morris, if you didn't like that one, your positively going to hate the ones I'm going to post soon when I get done doing PP of that flower taken with my new 135mm F1.8 wide open!  Stay tuned. 
Eric
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