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Konica Hexanon AR 3.5/28 7-element EE version
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 1:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
That NEX is serving you quite well, Ian. Some of those shots are outstanding. Wow, and it only seems a few short months ago you couldn't get anything in focus but a lonely pidgeon on a chimney. Wink


PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 1:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
woodrim wrote:
That NEX is serving you quite well, Ian. Some of those shots are outstanding. Wow, and it only seems a few short months ago you couldn't get anything in focus but a lonely pidgeon on a chimney. Wink


That damn EOS held me back so much, I shudder at how many out of focus shots I got. Getting a NEX was best thing I ever did! This forum helped a lot too, and the main thing is practice - been out with the camera almost every day.


PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 1:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm close to pulling the trigger on a NEX 5N, I really want the 7 but I don't think I can wait that long till it's available.


PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lightshow wrote:
I'm close to pulling the trigger on a NEX 5N, I really want the 7 but I don't think I can wait that long till it's available.


There is Samsung NX200, serious alternative to NEX-7.


PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Another example of how HDR helps in bad light. I went to the top of Kirby Fell, it was very dark indeed and misty, this shot gives a good impression of the level of light:



HDR of the same scene isn't very realistic but at least it's half decent compared to the single exposure, I used an ND8 filter to blur the water:



BTW, anyone else think there is some 3D 'pop' to this image?


PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
iangreenhalgh1 wrote:

BTW, anyone else think there is some 3D 'pop' to this image?

No.

What are you using for the HDR?


PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Photomatix.


PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote


1 minute in Photoshop Elements 6, I know you said that your HDR wasn't very realistic, I agree. Mine might be crap as well ?
But sometimes the quick fix - most of what I did was 'auto levels' 'auto colour correction' - does the job. My point is, that particular picture was taken on a grey day, and no amount of trickery will disguise that. It can help, it can even save an important picture, but it shouldn't be a substitute for allowing a picture to look natural. If you can use HDR and achieve that, then go for it. I believe that you're looking for the natural look, and your pictures deserve that.


PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 2:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I take your point, I could have tweaked the single exposure, I deliberately didn't to illustrate what the scene looked like in terms of available light. In the case of that shot I wasn't going for realistic, I was trying an artistic effect with the blurred water thorugh use of an ND8 filter.

Here's the rest of today's set, found a rather attractive river with many rapids/waterfalls.


















PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 9:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
very well done Ian!


PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 9:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ian, I really like your HDR stuff...it's like looking at paintings! Your move from the 10D to the Nex has really paid off!


PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 1:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cheers guys, really pleases me that people liken them to paintings as that is something I have deliberately tried to do, I sort of have a painter's eye for things as my original calling was painting, although I dropped out of art college to go to university and study something more useful, so I was trained to paint before I was taught photography.

The NEX really has transformed my work, very glad I bought one, the old EOS, while not a bad camera, was nowhere near this level of ability to make pretty pictures and I certainly don't miss trying to get things in focus without any focus aids whatsoever!


PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 1:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I agree that even if I don't like HDR, you have a good painter's eye


PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 1:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thankyou, I much prefer the NEX and Hexanon to a paintbrush and canvas, but ultimately both are just tools to create art.


PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 10:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Number 5 is stunning. The white water in the foreground is just perfect, any more would look 'chocolate box' and false. The ND and HDR is just right, and your painters eye has got the composition just right.
Again, it's a place I love to photograph. The Force Mills Falls at Grizedale ( I think I'm right ? ) and I remember saying to my wife that it's a place you could put the camera on timer, throw it in the air and you'd get a great picture. But there is more to it than that, the light under the trees is murder on a dreary day, and it's a narrow valley that only gets the sun briefly, and in the afternoon if you're looking up the falls the sun is directly in front of you. So HDR is the way to go.

I took this a couple of years ago, with the sun burning straight into the lens, and it took a lot of discarded shots and PP to get this. (Pentax DA 18-55 auto focus - no filters )

We were stood on the same rock !


That picture of the reservoir is good as well, it looks like a grey day. Wink


PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 11:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wow David, that is spooky, same rock, same time of year judging from the autumn colours, same view almost exactly!

You are precisely right on where it is, halfway between Bouth and Grizedale, I only found it by accident, a place I plan to return to a few times as, as you say, look any direction and you have something pretty to shoot.

I really love your shot, such warm tones, looks like you have more light to play with than I did as there is a lovely effect from the light filtering through the trees, it was a dull gray nasty day for me.


PostPosted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 12:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh, I had light ! The sun was low and right in the top of the shot, I think I cropped a bit off the top. I worked hard for that. Laughing


PostPosted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 12:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm just glad I've managed to work out how to shoot without the sun as it often doesn't turn up here!


PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 2:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I tried a series of sunsets, not sure they came out that well but I like the artistic loom of some of them.





















PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 2:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wow ! Some of them stunning really!


PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 2:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thankyou. This beach is 3 miles from my house so I will visit it again, this wasn't one of the more beautiful sunsets, we get some stunning sunsets here, it's just picking the right time, I also want to further explore abstract patterns made by sand and water.


PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 4:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Some of those have a lovely light, the ones that are paler and capture the watery light are very good. It's a hard light to capture effectively. That lens gets the detail wonderfully, then the processing gets the colour.


PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 4:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes, it was very dull and gray, some light mist but this wonderful warm, very directional light, tricky circumstance and for once, the HDR shots were not necessarily better than the single shots, some of those are HDR, some not. I went back tonight to try again and there was no sunset, just a black wall of gray cloud. I just love this Hexanon 3.5/28, as you say, it captures so much detail, perfect for the type of landscapes I want to capture. I agree about the pale watery ones, my favourites are 12 and 15, the paler silvery ones, 15 being my pick.


PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2019 4:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Almost a ghost thread by now, but here we go reviving it.
Konica Hexanon AR EE 3.5/28 on Fuji X-E2s
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