Sony Lounge Thread MKIII (All Sony cameras welcome)

eriet30 wrote in post #19275692
Nice

Mine looks like he broke out of jail.

navydoc wrote in post #19275688
Nice closeup. I think they are pretty amazing spiders too.

Here's one I shot some time ago that I may have posted before.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/Ameg​n7 Jumping spider by Gene, on Flickr

Nice and glad to see it.

eriet30 wrote in post #19275679
Then I dropped my lens and just went back to the camp

Next day bad smoke for sunrise but just made coffee and sat with this view.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2miY​NF7 _DSC0343.jpg by Paul, on Flickr

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2miT​HLZ _DSC0402.jpg by Paul, on Flickr

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2miV​7Hq _DSC0439.jpg by Paul, on Flickr

Then I was supposed to camp here on my way back to Phoenix .... .this is between Escalante UT and Page AZ...... But that storm was chasing me ....literally chasing me and over took me 5 min after I got back on a main road

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2miX​Djn _DSC0521.jpg by Paul, on Flickr

Then I stopped in Flagstaff to zen with the sunflowers

https://flic.kr/p/2miT​UsZ_DSC0554.jpg by Paul, on Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2miQ​56a_DSC0590.jpg by Paul, on Flickr


All in all a cruddy photo trip but an amazing zenful trip for me!

Still sounds like an awesome time away though

sidknee wrote in post #19275638
Well done John, was that on the Frome? I never managed to get one on my local stretch in Frampton Cotterell when I lived there, but did on a visit to the centre of Bristol in Eastville park!

Thanks Sid, wow, Eastville Park isn’t the first place that comes to mind for kingfisher spotting!

Yes mine was on the Frome (roughly where the windy little road between Downend and Frenchay crosses the Frome). It’s only really dawned on me after that all those sorts of shots are in really shaded areas so somewhat light starved! So next challenge is to find somewhere with better lighting.

Bill in Texas wrote in post #19275228
Can anyone recommend a tutorial in some form for shooting the Milky Way? I don't plan to use a tracker. A little less than a month for our trip to the Davis Mtns and a visit to the McDonald Observatory. Dark sky area in West Texas so there will be opportunities. TIA

I use Photopills app to plan if its something specific I'm trying to line up. Stellarium is brilliant to show you where the milky way will be at a given time too.

As Lee has said wide angle, fast lens and stacking is very good. I'm tending to go for 10-15 shots for a stack and use Sequator to stack. This is pc only I believe. On my a7iii with the Batis 18mm I'm shooting at either 6500 or 10,000 iso. I find this works really well for me.

A lot of trial and error too. Make sure you post up your pictures

TRhoads wrote in post #19275604
I prefer to shoot ISO 1600 and 3200 and the push the exposures in post, I have found that with all 3 of the bodies I have, they all tolerate that well and result in less noise than the straight ISO 6400 image.

Also, google this up -

What is ISO Invariance (An ISO-less Camera)?
The short answer is that ISO invariance means that a camera will produce the exact same image quality by staying at ISO (or whatever the base ISO is on the camera) and dramatically underexposing the photo and then brightening it up again in Lightroom, as if you had shot the camera at the proper ISO in the first place.

I think the a7iii is ISO invariant and I have played with it a couple of times and really pushed the exposure in post. It does seem to work, but I'm used to my normal method. You will have to have a look at google to see if your body shoots this way.

A1 FE 600f4 I love this lens for portrait shots in the garden this is my Niece waiting to be pushed

Rob.

Brilliant capture of this jumper Jose.
Who doesn't love them!
They always bring a smile to me.

Congratulations on a hard subject to nab!
We see them almost daily here on the lake but way off and going super fast.
Way skittish they are too. I've not come close this year to even puling the camera up
hoping.

Awesome work Eriet.
We've been to de Chelly many times, but the last time deep inside with an 80+ year old
guide who lives in the canyon. Special place indeed.
Of the shots you post the one I love most is the ancient stairway.

I tried to 'like' even more shots but my 'like' button stopped working (a HughesNet thing).
Gene that's a killer jumping spider!
We had one as pet for a while. Enjoyed hatching fly larva for him/her.

Flow state

FE 24-105

IMAGE LINK: https://www.alfredomor​aphoto.com …oads/n-mNp4Hr/i-Nt5WqBb/A

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #19275832
Awesome work Eriet.
We've been to de Chelly many times, but the last time deep inside with an 80+ year old
guide who lives in the canyon. Special place indeed.
Of the shots you post the one I love most is the ancient stairway.

I dont think you can go wrong with guides there. They are the most cooperative and "local" I have ever seen. When the guy I booked with didnt show the guy I got to take me said to his friend you need to go check on him and make sure hes ok. Completely different companies.

Its a special place for sure I will re do this trip with some adds that I drove by

from last year at the Green Planet bio dome indoor tropical rainforest, dubai.
Red Crested Turaco (National bird of Angola)

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2mji​1jm