Photo 150 "2022" - Howard_S

B: This week in 2014


Isis training | NEX-7 and Sigma E 30mm F2.8 | f/8.0 | 1/500s | ISO 100

It seems I didn't take any photos in this week in 2014, but I did on the first day of the next. I used an in-camera miniaturisation effect with the good old NEX-7.

Your creative shot this week is very good, amazing how the stitching doesn't cause any trouble in the moving waves.
I'm no big fan of the "miniature effect", but it kind of works here. Only the slightly sharper branches to the right distract a bit from the rowing team.
Nice detail from the cathedral in your prime shot, but if I look at your post of the entire series there I like the transept crossing even better, and that's also with the same prime

A: Week 21

Creative


Puffin takeoff | A7 III and FE 70-300 G OSS | f/8.0 | 300.0 mm | 1/1250 s | ISO 500

I did this montage for an Open View thread on Skomer and now it reminds me that I have more to do in those threads!

Edited by Howard_S - 16 June 2022 at 17:04

C: Prime


Transept crossing A7 III and FE 28mm F2 | f/8.0 | 1/125 s | ISO 8000

My thanks to Pieter for nominating this recent prime shot!

Thanks, Kai ... as for the ISO 8000 shot, I processed that in Lightroom from the source ARW file and it says here that I made no adjustment for Noise (0 on Luminance) and left the default 25 on Colour. Normally I would dial in something but here I forgot.

It must be something done in expressing the Flickr version (from LR) at 1600px and then using the 1024px version for Dyxum. If I look at the source at 200% the noise is quite apparent, though not excessive. The A7 III was quite a step forward from its predecessors, I believe.

Week 22

A: Creative


sculptures /2 | A7 III and FE 70-300mm F4.5-5.6 G OSS | f/5.0 | 70.0 mm | 1/640s | ISO 100

This one was taken on my DM photowalk with Harm VB in Gorinchem. The two figures here (dol hareubangs) are a gift from a city in S Korea that was visited by a C17 Dutchman, Hendrik Hamel. Hamel is quite a figure in Korean history (the first westerner to arrive there); he was shipwrecked en route to Japan and ended up living in Korea for 13 years, forbidden from leaving. I believe these two figures are deities that protect the city from demons and harm in general.

I used the Depth Effect neural filter in Photoshop to separate the foreground from background, and blurred the latter a little.

Edited by Howard_S - 18 June 2022 at 11:07

C: Prime


Nave ceiling | A7 III and FE 28mm F2 + Fisheye Converter | f/8.0 | 16.0 mm | 1/125 s | ISO 20000

I haven't been using a prime lens recently, so I have to dip back into my recent visit to St Davids in Wales to find another recent example, this time the 28mm F2 fitted with a Fisheye Converter to make 16mm focal length. I used Lightroom to rectilinearize, if that is a word, the image and also the Noise sliders to 40 luminance/ 50 contrast/ 50 detail to deal with the issues raised by shooting at ISO 20000 (!). I had left the camera in A mode at F8 and so auto ISO took care of the rest.