Sony Lounge Thread MKIII (All Sony cameras welcome)

The much needed rain continues to come down this evening. This is also why I stayed indoors shooting brandy today.

I focused on the street light to be sure the rain was in focus.

navydoc wrote in post #18582410
Or add a seascape inside the glass...hmmm...

I think they make plastic ice cubes eh? But brandy is not served on ice ??
I was thinking maybe a little boat riding the brandy seas

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #18579484
DT, yep control went ape, Phantom flew off into a mountainous distance.
Took another drone and did sweep fly overs and then came home and zoomed in
trying to locate. No luck.
I've since added another smaller drone....Spark...don't trust it either
Small sensor in the thing but sometimes it does ok. Who knows, maybe Sony
makes DJI's sensor for the Spark.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/YbCq​UJ The Gorge from 100 feet up by MedicineMan4040, on Flickr

talk about kissing your expensive toy goodbye ><

is this something you can add into insurance and file a claim ?

navydoc wrote in post #18582410
Or add a seascape inside the glass...hmmm...

yup, that was my thoughts. adding rocks turn it into landscape. i event went further and thought of these miniature trees heh

https://www.amazon.com …sr=8-2&keywords=toy+trees

but you wouldnt want to use good liquor with this idea lol

navydoc wrote in post #18582412
The much needed rain continues to come down this evening. This is also why I stayed indoors shooting brandy today.

I focused on the street light to be sure the rain was in focus.

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loving it

cool breeze, nice sounds. good drink

living the life

navydoc wrote in post #18582380
I stacked one image with my hand and one without it. After alignment, I used a 'hide-all' layer mask on the hand image to hide it then carefully unmasked the area inside the glass to just reveal the swirling liquid.

Love your flower in the water drops image Robert. The only thing I can think of to eliminate the room is to use a high enough f-stop so that the room is dark, to kill the ambient light, then light just the flower and branch with a flash. Without using a flash, you might be able to eliminate the room by using something dark to block the view of the room behind the flower.

Gene what is reflecting is actually behind the camera

DTBaan wrote in post #18582426
talk about kissing your expensive toy goodbye ><

is this something you can add into insurance and file a claim ?

DT yes. I have a personal articles policy where each camera, each lens, and the drone are each insured...expensive
for all of them; but if I go crazy and just stomp my A7Riii into the ground it is complete replacement at current market
value. So far I've never filed a clain on any camera kit/gear/lens. Cars/trucks not so much.

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #18582434
Gene what is reflecting is actually behind the camera

Oh! Maybe you can put something between the camera and the room behind it, turn lights off, shoot at night?

idsurfer wrote in post #18582334
This thread is outa control!!! I go skiing for a few hours and come home to another 6 pages of posts to go though!

Spring skiing here in Boise. BTW, these were taken with a manual focus lens. Basically set the focal distance and hoped for the best. Neither were dead on but IMO totally usable.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/23GL​R4Z Spring Skiing at Bogus Basin. by ID Surfer, on Flickr

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/23GL​Q6B Spring Skiing at Bogus Basin. by ID Surfer, on Flickr

They look great to me, and plenty sharp for web or small print, which is to say, I can't see that they aren't sharp from here.

All this rain has inspired me to dig through my old shoots and try to find something new to edit.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/254P​UDF Windansea at Sunset: 11/13/17 by tltichy, on Flickr

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #18582372
This afternoon's experiment.
Twig, drops, forsythia.
I'm practicing for when the red-buds come out. I think the red will go well against black.

But look at the image and in the drops you can see reflections in the room which I don't want.
Set up was R3+FE90, the twig with drops about 4 inches away, then the forsythia branch another 3-4 inches away
then a black piece of plexiglass.

Clues on getting rid of the room reflection please

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Did a number of these a few years ago, and used a fully darkened room, black clothes (including ski-mask), and just fired the flash directly at the subject. Light-spill into the room was not enough to register. An example:

https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1358855

Beautiful shots of the forsythia, by the way. Simply beautiful.

Afternoon sun halo

Saw this this afternoon at Mangawhai, about an hour north of Auckland.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/GWsU​Zj

Scatterbrained wrote in post #18582459
All this rain has inspired me to dig through my old shoots and try to find something new to edit.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/254P​UDF Windansea at Sunset: 11/13/17 by tltichy, on Flickr

Your throwaway shots are wall hangers!!

navydoc wrote in post #18582437
Oh! Maybe you can put something between the camera and the room behind it, turn lights off, shoot at night?

Gene I think that's it....I can suspend a partition behind camera...5 second release and get out of the way.

Rayfo wrote in post #18582465
Did a number of these a few years ago, and used a fully darkened room, black clothes (including ski-mask), and just fired the flash directly at the subject. Light-spill into the room was not enough to register. An example:

https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1358855

Beautiful shots of the forsythia, by the way. Simply beautiful.

Rayfo thanks for more suggestions. A black ski mask! Yeah that outta do it!
Well I'm up to four of the little Godox flashes and one big one, but thought if I flashed
the drops I'd get highlights......maybe flash them from behind like we do in splash photography
dispersing the light through a cutting board.
I'll keep playing as time permits.