Sony Lounge Thread MKIII (All Sony cameras welcome)

Thank you Was a last minute trip and the clouds rolled in about 10 minutes later, so quite happy

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #19236650
10 star hawk! You might remember hawks are dear to me
But you guys/gals over there don't call them hawks? Buzzards?

Thanks Robert, I do remember and your hawk adventures have been inspiration for my own endeavours during the lockdown periods we have been enduring. We have a pair resident locally and I've been encouraging them in a similar manner to you. Anyway the genus is buteo, our common buzzard is buteo buteo which as a straight translation from Latin to English is buzzard buzzard. For some reason over there you call your buzzards hawks and your vultures buzzards!

Photo from sidknee's gallery.

Eddie wrote in post #19236775
Interesting Travis, so do you do that for every landscape tripod shot? Or just when you feel the dynamic range demands it? Always keen to hear how others go about things

Depends on what I am shooting. So.ething like the landscape portfolio work in CA, I over shoot to ensure I have what I need. I usually blend, but the wind this year is making that impossible. Regular landscape stuff, 5 images if the DR is wide. If it isn't, I don't bracket. So it really is when the DR is wide and I need to make sure I have a file to work with.

David Arbogast wrote in post #19236803
Canon’s R5 has finally caught up to Sony on DR: https://www.dxomark.co​m …-Canon-EOS-R5___1326_1355

The a7R II DR is 13.8 stops and the a9 is 13.3 stops. Like you said, that’s better than any Canon 5D camera, but also significantly worse than the current a7R body. All I’m saying is you’ve got a substantially nice upgrade to enjoy at some point.

Maybe one day...for now I will keep plodding along with old gear.

LeeRatters wrote in post #19236777
For landscape, I wish you could select just a double bracket - foreground & sky!

Lee there's an app for that....or rather there was an app for it in the 'older' gen Sonys before they dropped the Playmemories Apps.
I can't remember the exact name of the app but it easily let you set up exposure for land and then for sky, then take the picture.
Maybe someone else remembers better.....or maybe my memory has slipped too.

DTBaan wrote in post #19236814
Time for a beer!! really good dr. And looks like a very comfy room to lounge. That picture posted is the house you sold? Or new? Sorry I'm behind in the info

The image is from the house I retired to.
I've owned the property for decades but only last year/and current decide it would be my 'Alamo' and started fixing it up.

LeeRatters wrote in post #19236841
A raining woodland in Wiltshire last Friday morning.

CZ80-200/4

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2kZ7​daT
*** by Lee, on Flickr

I'm scrolling down revealing this page and this image appears. Poof's response 'How lovely!'

gaabnz wrote in post #19236843
Wow, that is just awesome!!

thanks Gaab!
I've gone out twice for them since in FULL sunlight....and nothing! The Swallows were still there but none even cooperating at 600mm

gaabnz wrote in post #19236845
Te Arai point an hour and a half north of Auckland. Always a great spot for astro and sunrises.

This is a 10 shot stack, stacked in Sequator and finished in De noise. Some nice bioluminence going on at the moment.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2kZb​eMv stack-denoise-low-light by Gary Ashton, on Flickr

You've heard me say it before 'only in my dreams!'.
The dust clouds are just amazing.

sidknee wrote in post #19236881
Thanks Robert, I do remember and your hawk adventures have been inspiration for my own endeavours during the lockdown periods we have been enduring. We have a pair resident locally and I've been encouraging them in a similar manner to you. Anyway the genus is buteo, our common buzzard is buteo buteo which as a straight translation from Latin to English is buzzard buzzard. For some reason over there you call your buzzards hawks and your vultures buzzards!

Gallery photo:
posted by sidknee originally in forum: Birds

Dang!!! Stunning portrait!!
Well up here at the new place we have hawks....but Broad-winged Hawks....and look very similar to your Buteo buteo.
It is one of my photography goals to image one
I've been scheming a hawk tower here but location is limited to just off the water. The fear is if I begin feeding them and the food falls down into the
water; well just the other day Poof and I were sitting on the dock and she points 2 feet off the dock in the water and asks what is that?'. My immediate reply
was 'BAD NEWS'.
We'd been feeding a flock of Canadian Geese all winter (with real good-for-them geese food). What Poof pointed out was a massive snapping turtle! aaaarrrrg. We immediately
stopped feeding the geese. We'll start back we are certain the turtles are back well under the mud/winter.
So maybe my hawk enticement here should also be in winter. That's when they could certainly use the assist up here.
More thoughts will develop over time now I have some time to engage these matters.

This morning's effort.
First time with one of Gene's favorite lenses...the FE 90 Macro.

Laying on my back (wet ground of course here) and looking up.
Godox for Sony flash on the Alpha.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2kZ8​ZkL

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #19236925
The image is from the house I retired to.
I've owned the property for decades but only last year/and current decide it would be my 'Alamo' and started fixing it up.

I meant to ask you earlier how your internet is working at your retirement place? Are you still using the company I mentioned or going another route?

I've been spending sometime with the 50GM, really liking this lens

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2kZe​KKm

navydoc wrote in post #19236937
I meant to ask you earlier how your internet is working at your retirement place? Are you still using the company I mentioned or going another route?

We're with Hughesnet
I put a down deposit on Elon's system but they never contacted me. I think they do a google map search of your address, and in
my case saw the tree cover surrounding me....the vast National Forest that I cannot thin.
HughesNet is really remarkable in that it exists and works.
It's just very pricy in my opinion.
So we allot so much time for surfing/forums and that's that.

There are only 4 people who live up here, Poof and I being 2 of them. So I can understand why no company wants to make the outlay for anything better.
But if one is patient an image can be uploaded.
We've learned that at 0200-0400 it is quite fast AND a much better rate dollar wise.
And my new sleep pattern after years of working graveyard is bedtime is 2100 and we've both up before 0500.
Funny how quickly I reset my pattern.
So I surf from 0600-0800 unless something present. Then clock in with the routine.
1. something for the house (this morning I vacuumed downstairs...did litter boxes, mopped the kitchen floor.
2. something for outside. I hauled more stone for the dry-creek bed (an image coming someday soon)
3. something for the mind, total was EDC Coda practice. Working on 'Ashokan Farewell'.
4. Coffey on the dock working a bierd feeder.
5. Did a little banking/moved a safety deposit box closer to the mountain (still 40 min's away).

and on and on and on.

We are very blessed with good dark skies so close to home and the countries biggest city

And thank you

Speaking of retirement...after 7 days and 3,200 miles across 14 states with two cars and two cats who don't enjoy traveling, I landed at my new home in Maine yesterday . Had coffee and a breakfast sandwich at Pemaquid Point this morning, about 20 minutes from my new home. My "new" home is over 200 years old, so I have plenty to keep me busy for years, but I also look forward to dabbling in Astro now that I live in an area with low light pollution. Just a phone pic for now as my POD doesn't arrive for a couple of weeks with all my computer gear. Great to see you back Robert!