Sony Lounge Thread MKIII (All Sony cameras welcome)

Seattle wildfire haze sunrise

vinmunoz wrote in post #18683381
One from the bridal party shoot

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Interesting that you used the FE 70-200 for a group shot. It turned out excellent.

navydoc wrote in post #18683499
Interesting that you used the FE 70-200 for a group shot. It turned out excellent.

If you’ve got space, it’s often preferable to wide angle

Took my new FE 24-105 out this weekend to the Zoo. For a casual walk around lens, I'm very pleased with it.

Oakland Zoo Trainer working with young mountain lion.

Another with the Samyan FE AF 24mm F2.8
This is a hiking lens!

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Charlie wrote in post #18683504
If you’ve got space, it’s often preferable to wide angle

it puts you a long way from the group sometimes, but it really has less distortion and looks great, allows you to shoot at f/2.8 and still have sufficient dof to capture the group sharply.

I am on site tonight, and in prep for shooting the hotel and I used my room as a test for adding lighting...since 2018 is my year of learning lighting...and I must say...this makes it SO much easier. When I shot this building several years ago when it first opened, each room image took me an hour or more to edit, do window pulls, blending...this is two frames, and one of them is to get rid of the reflection on the window and desk from the main image...shooting time, less than 5 minutes. Editing time...less than 10. I would love some feedback, things yall see that need help...yall are a keen bunch of folks that see everything and give great feedback...the WB is spot on for how the room feels in reality, and that is what I try to depict, how the room feels so that a guest is not mislead...

TRhoads wrote in post #18683660
I am on site tonight, and in prep for shooting the hotel and I used my room as a test for adding lighting...since 2018 is my year of learning lighting...and I must say...this makes it SO much easier. When I shot this building several years ago when it first opened, each room image took me an hour or more to edit, do window pulls, blending...this is two frames, and one of them is to get rid of the reflection on the window and desk from the main image...shooting time, less than 5 minutes. Editing time...less than 10. I would love some feedback, things yall see that need help...yall are a keen bunch of folks that see everything and give great feedback...the WB is spot on for how the room feels in reality, and that is what I try to depict, how the room feels so that a guest is not mislead...

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As everyone knows, I'm far from being an expert when it comes to interior photography like this but here's my take on this shot. I love the colors, the light colored walls splashed with the warm light from the lamps and the general airiness to the room. White balance looks perfect on my monitor too.

My only real 'niggle' is the verticles on the left don't appear vertical. I don't know if they should be or not. For the heck of it, I straightened the verticals on the left but then wondered what would happen if the horizontals along the back wall were made horizontal too. so, I straightened them to see how that looked. That also helped the beds from looking like they were slanted downhill. Because of the change of angle that created, the image wound up needing more of a widescreen type of crop so some of the ceiling and floor information was lost.

I do kind of like the result though. Would you be interested in seeing my edit, Travis? I can pm you if you'd rather.

TRhoads wrote in post #18683660
I am on site tonight, and in prep for shooting the hotel and I used my room as a test for adding lighting...since 2018 is my year of learning lighting...and I must say...this makes it SO much easier. When I shot this building several years ago when it first opened, each room image took me an hour or more to edit, do window pulls, blending...this is two frames, and one of them is to get rid of the reflection on the window and desk from the main image...shooting time, less than 5 minutes. Editing time...less than 10. I would love some feedback, things yall see that need help...yall are a keen bunch of folks that see everything and give great feedback...the WB is spot on for how the room feels in reality, and that is what I try to depict, how the room feels so that a guest is not mislead...

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Bearing in mind that I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, an RE shooter, you should liberally sprinkle salt on any opinion I may have – and then throw it in the bin.

For me, the window is a little too bright and cold – it constantly draws my eye, and competes for attention with the warmer bed covers.
The room seems unbalanced – possibly lighten the left-hand side just a bit.
I would clone out the blanket, or whatever, that is peeking out from under the top-cover of the far bed (it looks untidy).
There is a small dust-spot, or something, on the top-right edge of the window.

All nit-picking of a good image – so can be safely ignored!

navydoc wrote in post #18683723
As everyone knows, I'm far from being an expert when it comes to interior photography like this but here's my take on this shot. I love the colors, the light colored walls splashed with the warm light from the lamps and the general airiness to the room. White balance looks perfect on my monitor too.

My only real 'niggle' is the verticles on the left don't appear vertical. I don't know if they should be or not. For the heck of it, I straightened the verticals on the left but then wondered what would happen if the horizontals along the back wall were made horizontal too. so, I straightened them to see how that looked. That also helped the beds from looking like they were slanted downhill. Because of the change of angle that created, the image wound up needing more of a widescreen type of crop so some of the ceiling and floor information was lost.

I do kind of like the result though. Would you be interested in seeing my edit, Travis? I can pm you if you'd rather.

you know..the verticals are the one thing I didn't check, mostly because I don't have DXO Viewpoint on my new work laptop yet...so thanks for pointing that out, that is something I usually check. I lost sight of that on this for some reason.

Rayfo wrote in post #18683737
Bearing in mind that I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, an RE shooter, you should liberally sprinkle salt on any opinion I may have – and then throw it in the bin.

For me, the window is a little too bright and cold – it constantly draws my eye, and competes for attention with the warmer bed covers.
The room seems unbalanced – possibly lighten the left-hand side just a bit.
I would clone out the blanket, or whatever, that is peeking out from under the top-cover of the far bed (it looks untidy).
There is a small dust-spot, or something, on the top-right edge of the window.

All nit-picking of a good image – so can be safely ignored!

very good point, I should have seen that too. I agree with it 100%. I don't think it helps that it was overcast out tonight, so there was no real color to capture out there, and maybe I was focused on not needing to do window pulls or blends...

This is why I like this group...eagle eyes and willing to share their viewpoint.

Maybe too much ceiling? Tripod a tad lower

SeattleSpeedster wrote in post #18683751
Maybe too much ceiling? Tripod a tad lower

another very good point, thanks, a crop from the corner of the bulkhead does make a better image.

TRhoads wrote in post #18683755
another very good point, thanks, a crop from the corner of the bulkhead does make a better image.

For hotel shots, I would have closed the curtains. That is unless the hotel is on the beach somewhere. I do like the overall exposure and the lighting from the flash adds to the crispness of the image. It looks like you were stuck between a 1 point and 2 point perspective. Your idea for a crop would work better. Oh, yes window pulls using flash is a great time saver in post.

digital_AM wrote in post #18683759
For hotel shots, I would have closed the curtains. That is unless the hotel is on the beach somewhere. I do like the overall exposure and the lighting from the flash adds to the crispness of the image. It looks like you were stuck between a 1 point and 2 point perspective. Your idea for a crop would work better. Oh, yes window pulls using flash is a great time saver in post.

usually, I agree...this was more of a test...to see how it looked to keep the window drapes open, for getting a better feel for how it works when using flash in the event there is a good view...yeah, the view is crap...but I got an idea of what can be done with a LOT less effort in post. Sheers and drapes cause other problems in what I have shot of this kind of thing...it makes them look really odd, for this one, the sheers pulled would be nice. The blackout curtains are a little too heavy for me, makes the room feel really dark...just what they are designed to do...

A series of images showing the completed courtroom from the Karnes County Courthouse. The images I delivered to the client had a bit more punch but he wanted the wood toned down. This looks more natural I think.

All shot with the Batis 18

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