Philippe,
This is like a painting! The boat like window or mirror view gives the impression we are looking back in time, but she has a cell phone. I love it!
Jim
Lieutenant Z wrote:
Back to Lyon, street scene taken with the Sony A7M3 & 28/2.8 ais.
Ben,
You are surrounded by fascinating faces, and people. The non AI is just so sharp it is hard to believe you are capturing street shots where even the pupil is resolved so well in a downsized image.
Jim
bruni wrote:
Piazza Navona, micro Nikkor 55mm f3.5 non AI
I will keep boring you with my processing journey.
A long time ago I owned a copy of Photoshop; then Adobe dropped updates and went subscription. I swore never to use Photoshop again.
For most of my low ISO photos, standard Nikon SW does what I want: color, contrat, a bit of sharpness, exposure, etc.
For my theater photos I struggled with corrections (white balance, exposer, highlights, shadows etc.), long processing times and trouble with getting noise reduction right. This being one reason I stopped taking photos of my dancing friends. (the other reasons were work and the pandemic).
I decided to go back to Adobe.
Here is before and after with LR and On1 noise reduction.
Underexposure helps with theater light contrast (highlights), Nikon cameras have excellnt DR but get noisy in shadows.
OK, promise to stop, but I cannot believe how dense I was in not wanting better processing SW.
This is ISO 800 but I set the camera to -3EV to keep most highlights from blowing.
leighton w wrote:
This just proves how long lasting this thread is, your daughters in college!!
Here's a 2010 image of my girls taken with the 50/1.2 AIS and a recent pic of them from earlier in the year for their senior portraits.
rafaelcasd wrote:
OK, promise to stop, but I cannot believe how dense I was in not wanting better processing SW.
This is ISO 800 but I set the camera to -3EV to keep most highlights from blowing.
rafael,
The improvement in software imaging is very apparent in your samples. Your EXIF and IPTC metadata has been stripped from your photos - I assume by Flicker, or possibly by FM, but here is my "advice".
Theater can be quite a challenge in getting a good WB and/or exposure. So, what I am about to say is going to sound counter-intuitive - shoot everything in manual mode. The first thing I would do is set a manual WB in degrees kelvin (usually between 3300-4700K). The reason for doing it in camera - is that Nikon's 14bit RAW capture in camera is better than any after the fact adjustment through software. Doing this frees the software from doing more drastic adjustments, because it is already close. I never used manual focus lenses in live theater photography - unless for staged group shots. I had a method of even thinking about all the shots based upon a "base exposure", and how to establish that base using the doubling and halving relationship between shutter speed and f-stop. I also used a negative EV to preserve highlights, but usually -1/3rd and occasionally 2/3rds of a stop.
hope that may be of use
Jim
rafaelcasd wrote:
My purpose in posting these is to elicit Advice
Raphael always a treat to see your captures. The stage shots remind me a lot of Ray's work.
James I like the expanse of the panorama/landscape. Great composition,
Here are some from Big Bay and the Falls located somewhere at the end of the dirt road which ked then to a good hike! A lot of work to get these and I turned one into a pano of six or seven shots.
