Douglas L
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 Re: Another look at the G 200-600mm lens | |
chiron wrote:
Douglas L wrote:
Great samples from the 200-600, Joshua! I have the 300GM+2XTC that will replace the 200-600 as my main hummingbird lens but the 200-600 will still be my main airshow lens because of its versatility. It's not going anywhere, unless Sony makes a lighter Mark II.
Fabulous aircraft photos, Douglas. Very powerful and strikingly composed, which I can only imagine must be extremely difficult to capture. Can you say more about your technique for getting these?
Also, I especially love the colors and lighting in the 2nd and then the 2nd and 3rd from the end. Each of them has a deeper tone and somewhat subdued colors and lighting that I love. I have been trying to work toward getting that look in some of my landscapes, and I would love to know how you got that look in those images.
Thank you very much! In terms of composing, If the planes are not flying in an angle I like to see, I may tilt the camera, or change the angle in post. If you were referring to the timing of some of the shots of the opposing passes, it's mostly luck and high frame rate of the A1. I think the 120 FPS of the A9III will almost guarantee you will get the perfect opposing passes .
As for editing, it varies. In typical summer time airshows, distance/heat shimmering can be a big problem, doesn't matter what lenses you use. Dehazing helps a lot sometimes.
The 2nd picture you referred to was taken last Aug at an airshow in West Virginia. I just looked at my Lightroom editing for this particular picture, this is exactly what I did in Lightroom.
Global adjustments:
1. exposure: -0.20
2. dehaze: 26
3. highlights color grading: H:40S:54:L:0, basically I made the highlight a bit more yellow/orange to mimic sunlight.
Masking adjustments:
1. subject: color temp: +10, saturation: +5, shadow: +24
2. background: exposure:-0.43
These are all the adjustments made in Lightroom, then I sent to Topaz denoise AI, where in "Clear" tap, I usually choose "Low" or "Med" for in "Remove Noise", and "Low" in "Enhance Sharpness".
That's it for this particular shot.
For the 3rd from the last ( the 3 Migs):
Global adjustments:
1. exposure: +0.26
2. dehaze: +89! Usually I don't go anywhere near that but for this shot I wanted to bring out the clouds,
3. blue saturation: -41
Masking adjustments made to subject (the 3 Migs)
1. dehaze:-31, to bring back down the effect from dehazing in global adjustment
2. shadow: +74,
3. exposure: +0.31
4: temp: +11
That was all I did in Lightroom before I sent it to Topaz Denoise AI.
For the 2nd to last shot (Lt Amanda Lee, first Blue Angel jet pilot). I did something similar to what I did to the 3 Migs, global dehaze:+71, to bring out the clouds, subject (the pilot and the jet) dehaze: -22, again, to bring back down the effect from global dehaze.
I know very little about Photoshop, too complicated for me to learn.
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