Sony A7x lounge

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #17711631
I wish I could advise. My driveway is a mile and a half of gravel and the nearest neighbor 30 mins away. Street photography at its closest is Asheville an hour and a half away.

You are a very fortunate man; remote living in gorgeous country.

Thanks David but winters can be rough at altitude. Wait until you experience the ice storms outside Atlanta

OK, more experiments with the ea3 and Tamron...def. not a macro lens but one of these turned out ok I think. While out I got my first BIFs with the A7Rii....too far away to 'publish' here in front of this austere group but in AF-C Medium focus block it actually tracked the osprey. Refresh rate of the EVF was decent-lame compared to a 5Diii or 7Dii but I am fully convinced now that BIFs are doable.

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^ Those are fantastic! Great detail, especially the first one.

I edited an earlier shot in black and white. I think I prefer the mood of this one.

Aggghhh this is in stock now....... could send the voightlander back and get it but I just have not heard from anyone who actually owns it.

http://www.bhphotovide​o.com …laowa_15mm_f_4_​macro.html

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #17711676
Thanks David but winters can be rough at altitude. Wait until you experience the ice storms outside Atlanta

OK, more experiments with the ea3 and Tamron...def. not a macro lens but one of these turned out ok I think. While out I got my first BIFs with the A7Rii....too far away to 'publish' here in front of this austere group but in AF-C Medium focus block it actually tracked the osprey. Refresh rate of the EVF was decent-lame compared to a 5Diii or 7Dii but I am fully convinced now that BIFs are doable.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/xNHQ​3v We share the Light by MedicineMan4040, on Flickr

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/xNUB​cQ Thistle Support by MedicineMan4040, on Flickr

so sharp!

navydoc wrote in post #17711367
I got a haircut this morning...about time too.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/xNmg​DL Lowering of the ears by Gene, on Flickr

nice portrait Gene

My thanks to the folks who responded to my query about FD adaptors.

After going cross-eyed on the Sony manual and all the camera menus, I may need to go out and buy a 3rd party manual - something I haven't done in 20+ years.

I did manage to get the A7RII to AF on the STM version of my nifty fifty. It also works surprisingly well with the EF 24mm f/1.4L II.

My first Sony camera was a much simpler Mavica with a 3.5" floppy disk. Ah, those were the days!

a7r

KayakPhotos wrote in post #17711615
Street photography question.

Would you go with 28mm or 35mm and why?

I'm thinking that one of these focal lengths might be my next buy.

Your best bet is to just try them. Both are good for different reasons, but I generally prefer 35mm for a normal perspective and 28mm to just get a bit more environment.

a7R II + EF 24-70L II:

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Johnny010 wrote in post #17711271
Basically, you use the 600 shutter speed rule.

Divide 600 (if you use a crop 1.6x camera...400) by the focal length you are going to use.

This is to stop the formation of star trails. The wider the zoom, the longer the shutter you can have before a star moves 1 pixel worth of space. So for 15mm...600/15 = 40s

You can kinda just remember these rules. 15mm=40s, 17mm = 35s , 24mm=25s , 28mm = 21s, 35mm = 17s, 50mm = 12s.

As far as aperture, check DXOmark to find the first aperture value your lens stops having such large chromatic abberation. Usually a stop ish from the wide open. Use this setting for Ap.

The milky way comes in around EV -9.

f2 30s ISO 6400 gives this value of EV. Try and get as close as you can to it before noise kills you shot. Most cameras thats about ISO 3200/1600.
The more zoom you use, the wider the aperture you need, the further off youll be.
As with all things, an over-exposure brought down in post will get rid of some noise...but bringing an exposure up in post is always the last resort.

This is what I get using that general rule.
I live in a badly light polluted area, surrounded by 3 major towns/cities.

thank you mate. i try this out.

If you want a faster way, what I do is clean up blemishes first with a combination of patch tool and healing brush tool. then use the plugin Imagenomic portraiture. You run portraiture with just the normal default and make sure the result will be on a separate layer(there's an option there on how do you like the result will be), then reduce the opacity of the new layer to about 40%. That should give you a more natural look. if you think it's too much you can control the effect using the layer's opacity.

The longer way which is what I'm using usually is to manually soften the skin by dodging and burning every unwanted small patches of shadows and highlights. You do that after cleaning the blemishes. After dodging and burning I always end up with a smooth skin already that I don't have to use the Portraiture. Only then you do the color toning using Color Balance, Curves or levels.

If you really wanna invest in high end retouching tutorials, i highly recommend Pratik Naik of http://www.solsticeret​ouch.com/

He has a great non destructive photoshop tutorial on creativelive. The class is called The Art & Business of High End Retouching. He also teach there the shooting and business side of retouching.

First he shoot with Felix Kunze to understand the essentials to have a better understanding on how to work with photographers, then he talk about the business side, then the retouching tutorials.

here;
https://www.creativeli​ve.com …nd-retouching-pratik-naik

hope this helps.

shots yesterday.... on-camera flash....

Visited a friend with a 3 weeks old baby. Wanted to do a low key shot but i have no backdrop. I saw a huge TV and it wasn't on. So there you go, i made it the backdrop.

on-camera flash...

vinmunoz wrote in post #17711929
shots yesterday.... on-camera flash....

vinmunoz wrote in post #17711932
Visited a friend with a 3 weeks old baby. Wanted to do a low key shot but i have no backdrop. I saw a huge TV and it wasn't on. So there you go, i made it the backdrop.

on-camera flash...

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Very nice vinz! This once again shows that its the photographers creativity that leads to great images, not the gear. But the FE90 and the A7Rii are surely doing a very good job too