The photography thread

[shav]

Top picture is on point Jack. Great timing.

The other 2 are just as cool.

Little update: I splashed out and bought a Sigma 50mm F1.4 lens last night. Flippin big step up from the Nikkor basics.

[Jack_Keaka]

nice, i have the same lens. its solid and heavy, but fuck its sharp. one of my favourite lenses. it was the first FX lens i bought.
edit:
infact not only was this image the first shot i took with that lens, it was also the first click of the shutter on my new D600 at the time. i love this photo to bits. featuring my cat. haha

[shav]

nice, i have the same lens. its solid and heavy, but fuck its sharp. one of my favourite lenses. it was the first FX lens i bought.
edit:
infact not only was this image the first shot i took with that lens, it was also the first click of the shutter on my new D600 at the time. i love this photo to bits. featuring my cat. haha

spot on. Great shot. Yep, hanging to get some clear weather to take some shots with it. Should be fun to learn whta it can do.

[Jack_Keaka]

took a few picky poos on the weekend:
*colours are a little more dull than the full resolutions.

[shav]

Fantastic work mate. I like the composition used.

Here is a few I took on the weekend.

vine and barrels by shav.bird, on Flickr

truck by shav.bird, on Flickr

[SIMBAT]

I sold my lib today... and to celebrate i bought myself the sony a7s and some zeiss glass 35 f1.4 and 55 f1.8. All i can say is this camera is the best I've ever seen! ill be up all night taking photos looks like.

[shav]

I sold my lib today... and to celebrate i bought myself the sony a7s and some zeiss glass 35 f1.4 and 55 f1.8. All i can say is this camera is the best I've ever seen! ill be up all night taking photos looks like.

Those A7's have been getting a decent wrap on the photography forums. Nice glass choice too. Keen to see what shots you come up with.

[SIMBAT]

Haven't had a chance to take low light shots of something interesting but heres a little taste of the camera... i had to minimise the size of the image quite a lot to upload here...

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Just an ungraded shot from my front balcony at 10pm last night.

a7s with carl zeiss 55 f 1.8

1/3 shutter-speed
f 1.8
iso 25600

[shav]

Haven't had a chance to take low light shots of something interesting but heres a little taste of the camera... i had to minimise the size of the image quite a lot to upload here...

DSC00171.JPG

Just an ungraded shot from my front balcony at 10pm last night.

a7s with carl zeiss 55 f 1.8

1/3 shutter-speed
f 1.8
iso 25600

Nice. Try and set your iso lower if you can.

Get your hands on a copy of Lightroom 5 too. You should be able to download a trial version for a month free. It will help enhance your photos even more.

[SIMBAT]

Haven't had a chance to take low light shots of something interesting but heres a little taste of the camera... i had to minimise the size of the image quite a lot to upload here...

DSC00171.JPG

Just an ungraded shot from my front balcony at 10pm last night.

a7s with carl zeiss 55 f 1.8

1/3 shutter-speed
f 1.8
iso 25600

Nice. Try and set your iso lower if you can.

Get your hands on a copy of Lightroom 5 too. You should be able to download a trial version for a month free. It will help enhance your photos even more.

Yea I've got light room 5, i just wanted to demo the quality of image straight out of the camera. I also had the iso that high to again demo the noise performance and i didn't have my tripod set up so i wanted a hand holdable shutter speed, definitely the most astonishing thing about this camera is its range of usable iso, this paired with my a77ii means a have a camera for any shot since the a7s strengths are all the a77ii's faults and vice versa.

Just waiting on my ziess 35mm f14 to come in.

[shav]

Yea I've got light room 5, i just wanted to demo the quality of image straight out of the camera. I also had the iso that high to again demo the noise performance and i didn't have my tripod set up so i wanted a hand holdable shutter speed, definitely the most astonishing thing about this camera is its range of usable iso, this paired with my a77ii means a have a camera for any shot since the a7s strengths are all the a77ii's faults and vice versa.

Just waiting on my ziess 35mm f14 to come in.

If thats the case, then the noise levels look good, although hard to tell with the small photo. Quite impressed with the quality Sony's put out

[Jack_Keaka]

25600 is amazing for that photo! only a few years ago 6400 was too high even for a DSLR. now pocket rockets can handle 25600 without looking like a collage of snow is astounding. looks very sharp too

[SIMBAT]

Yea well i've done a bit more testing tonight, it takes 32000 iso at f1.8 for me to start to notice some noise in the image... thats without the noise reduction setting on. I'm really happy with it and would definitely recommend it to anyone thinking of jumping ship from canon or nikon.

i can't wait till the sky clears up and i can crank it up to 409600 iso to navigate stars systems.

[Jack_Keaka]

I'm actually planning to go do some Astro photography Saturday night. Only issue is that my only wide angle is an f/4... Not sure what I'll be able to get with that.

[SIMBAT]

I'm actually planning to go do some Astro photography Saturday night. Only issue is that my only wide angle is an f/4... Not sure what I'll be able to get with that.

you will. just might need a longer shutter speed 6-10 sec's