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 p.594 #15 · ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!) | |
William, if you don't mind, few hints, which might work on post processing to your last 3 posted photos (personal preferences): 1) exposure 1/3 or 0.5 stop down, WB 175-200K warmer (maybe 2-3 clicks hue towards magenta), 2) exposure 1/3 stop down, WB 150-200L warmer 3) quite close how I would have adjusted, maybe 50-100K warmer WB.
wiseguy010, I have never seen so smooth skin (real people, models with make-up made for photoshoot different thing...), did you use some filter or is she really that smooth skinned? 2nd portrait was very good, really good eye contact.
akul;
"I am not sure whether I got your Live VIew exposure part." --> point was that when using LCDVF the light outside is not affecting LCD, so I get "standard" viewing conditions and I can estimate from LCD how image eventually will end up looking like. It's not WYSIWYG, since 5DmkII LCD definitely isn't even close when it comes to colors, but with "adjustment factor" in my head I can imagine, how it will end up after different RAW processing and adjustments.
Regarding your image, even with different settings I don't see potential for dimensionality, light was just too uniform, non-directional and dull.
"...Voigtlander shots...I somehow got an impression it was less contrasty compare to zeiss." it is, with Zeiss I typically left black point to Apple Aperture default value 3 (sometimes raise it to 4-5, depends on light and exposure), but with Voigtländer I had to systematically raise black point to 3.5-4, and for some shots even to 6. Great small lens - I got it for abstracts etc. where I want flat rendering (compared to Zeiss), and I'm quite happy how it performs in that usage.
From your new photos I liked most the last one, it also had best light...center compositions work well at least for me.
Jim, liked "Seeing red I" and "First Night Out - Eric Serra". 2/50 is good lens for some purposes, however I personally prefer 1.4 version, suits better for my shooting style.
Edward, I'm surpriced (based on my assumptions - thou I have very little information about 4/85, to be honest I haven't even checked MTF...) that 4/85 has so bad bokeh in some pictures. I would have assumed lens so slow, would be made top quality wide open, however wide open the bokeh highlight seem to have very bright edges (like ZE/ZF 2/35 when it's bad). Liked 2nd and 3rd, thou slightly overexposed for my taste. GXR looks good camera, don't see anything obviously wrong, and if wides work without color issues it's quite good for ZM-lenses. Is it how difficult to focus to ZM-lenses with GXR?
Gunzorro, where you got one (2.8/135), didn't know we can get it in Z-mount  liked the 1st one, took me long time to figure out the light spots in bokeh, I assume they are reflections from somewhere to house wall or something.
Spring is finally here (well saying this and knowing Murphy's law it will rain 25cm/10" snow tomorrow...)
"Rapolanharju 2012/1 - Hepatica nobilis" - Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2/25 @ f/5.6, 1/640s, ISO 100 (this is shoot at minimum focusing distance, this flower is really small)
"Rapolanharju 2012/3" - Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1,4/85 @ f/5.6, 1/125s, ISO 100
"Rapolanharju 2012/2" - Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1,4/85 @ f/2.8, 1/500s, ISO 100 (larger)
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