So Cal So Cal Part II: Home of the B.I.F.'s

Here are a couple I like.

One of the first aircraft I visited was "Miss Angela", one of the few remaining flyable B17's.

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Fantastic shots, Gene. I need to go out there one of these days. Been to Palm Springs many times. Haven't visited the museum yet.

This was all natural lighting? Your colors look great! Nothing washed out. Well lit scenes. Perfectly colorful for those metal surfaces.

Puckman wrote in post #17390625
Fantastic shots, Gene. I need to go out there one of these days. Been to Palm Springs many times. Haven't visited the museum yet.

This was all natural lighting? Your colors look great! Nothing washed out. Well lit scenes. Perfectly colorful for those metal surfaces.

Thanks Dean. For the bombardier/navigator station, you can see that there is a work light behind the bulkhead on the left that's furnishing that warm light. The other areas of the interior just have those strip lights that are visible in the shots. The interiors were taken with my Sony a7r + Canon 17-40 lens and the iso varied from 640 to 6400.

These look very clean and sharp for high ISO. You apply NR in post? Or is that all the A7R's doing?

Puckman wrote in post #17390679
These look very clean and sharp for high ISO. You apply NR in post? Or is that all the A7R's doing?

It's a little of both. I did use noise reduction on these but it also helps when reducing such a high resolution image into a smaller one, what noise grains that remain get very much closer together making them blend in and be barely noticeable. Of course, I can't tell you all my 'secrets' to clean images.

One advantage I do get with the Sony camera is the ability to open up those dark areas and not worry about ugly banding and excessive noise in the shadows.

Yup. Been doing a lot of revisiting old photos lately, to reprocess. The 6D has some pretty good shadow detail, but I suspect the A7R is miles ahead in that department.

NR on the other hand, is a bit of a mystery to me. I tend to shoot a lot at ISO100 and apply no NR. Of course, that's easy when doing landscapes with a tripod. In situations such as your encountered here, i'm guessing handheld, that's a whole different ballgame. And I've generally had pretty poor results due to my inability at dialing in NR and ISO.

navydoc wrote in post #17390446
Here are a couple I like.

One of the first aircraft I visited was "Miss Angela", one of the few remaining flyable B17's.

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Miss Angela by navydoc45, on Flickr

The bomb bay from "Miss Angela". Shot with the Canon 17-40 which I used for all the interior shots.

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The bomb bay by navydoc45, on Flickr

The bombardier's chair. The navigators table is on the left.

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The bombardier's chair by navydoc45, on Flickr

This is a view from the waist facing forward.

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Waist facing forward by navydoc45, on Flickr

These are great ! Nice job!

Must get out to that museum sometime soon.

navydoc wrote in post #17390446
Here are a couple I like.

One of the first aircraft I visited was "Miss Angela", one of the few remaining flyable B17's.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/qzCF​ab
Miss Angela by navydoc45, on Flickr

The bomb bay from "Miss Angela". Shot with the Canon 17-40 which I used for all the interior shots.

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The bomb bay by navydoc45, on Flickr

The bombardier's chair. The navigators table is on the left.

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The bombardier's chair by navydoc45, on Flickr

This is a view from the waist facing forward.

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Waist facing forward by navydoc45, on Flickr

Nice selfie.

airbutchie wrote in post #17389660
Urban Love Affair...

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Caught this wonderful couple (in silhouette) enjoying the spectacular view of downtown Los Angeles' skyline on a nice and clear winter evening... 1Ds3 + 24LII... ISO 200, f/11 @ 15 second exposure...



PS. Thx gents on the comments with the Observatory... And Owen... It wasn't too crowded when I was there...

Haha. Almost missed the people on the bench.

TustinMike wrote in post #17391250
These are great ! Nice job!

Must get out to that museum sometime soon.

Thanks. That was my first visit and I enjoyed it. Most of the exhibits are indoors because of its location naturally.

Blurr Cube wrote in post #17391256
Nice selfie.

Thanks. It took a lot of adjustments to line myself up just so in that panel looking up at her...j/k...I didn't bother to remove myself from the shot.

Sunset Over Santa Monica...

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You still rockin that 7dmk2 Butch?

Puckman wrote in post #17391696
You still rockin that 7dmk2 Butch?

Yup yup... It's my backup-backup camera; behind my 1Ds3 and 1D4... I honestly haven't used it for a few months... I think the last outing was in mid November during an NSSA Surfing event... It's been in the bag ever since...

WOAH... New POTN format again!!! DOUBLE WOAH!!! Hehehhehe..

It's nice that it's constantly being worked on, modified, tweaked.