Week 50 2021 Outtakes - Event Date: 13 December 2021

Day one is a miserable wet and cold day (again) so after a long dog walk where Ollie, Rosie and me had had enough, I cracked open my flash case and had a play with off camera flash. Had fun experimenting with settings on the a7iii as well as controlling various intensities of the Godox V1S through the XProS radio trigger. It really is a fantastic setup and I have promised myself I shall make a lot more use of them, along with the two V860iiS flashes I also have.

Here is the first shot from the play session, A Bunch of (artificial) Violets in front of the kitchen blind:



A true outtake

Planning to give the Meyer-Optik-Görlitz Trioplan 50mm F2.9 a go this week, first time for a few years and I'd forgotton how to use it for best bubble effects. Since it is now dark but still on day one I popped out to capture my neighbour's white fairy lights in his garden tree with it attached to the NEX-6. Here's an outtake:



Its a work in progress

Inbound train


Sony ILCE-7RM4 Konica Hexanon AR 57mm F/1.4 @ F/1.4 ISO 100 1/1000s

Old Manufactory (Day 1)

A7 IV with LA-EA 5 and Sony 1.4/50 mm @ ISO 1250, f/7.1, 1/80 sec., did Keystone Correction and crop.

Edited by Robbie - 13 December 2021 at 21:15

It rained. Heavy rain warnings are in place for large parts of NZ over the next few days. So I've been driven inside.
Here's something I tried yesterday, before settling on the black and white photo in the vase.

Windows look like stairs

perspective corrected

GCT Grand Central Terminal

4x5 crop

Exiting the bottom of the frame

shot through the train window which had backlit dirt

Three more with Minolta 50/2.8 RS Macro
#1 December rose.


#2 Something to practice bokeh.


#3 Again