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Ahh right, I thought you might be local to me but I'm about as far away the other side of Donington (Chesterfield)Tamworth
Ahh right, I thought you might be local to me but I'm about as far away the other side of Donington (Chesterfield)Tamworth
Nice. Remind me again which strength cinebloom you have please?
Nice. Remind me again which strength cinebloom you have please?
I found this interesting...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH9VBrx3rnY
I really don't like his style as I thought he deliberately pushed all the exposure sliders to the right to create what looked to me to be over exposed in large areas pictures with maybe too much saturation at times too, but what do I know? He's the pro and I'm just a happy snapper.
Anyway. In this vid he explains that he does this to highlight the subject rather than have distracting things like detail in the sky take attention away from the subject. It's a view and I can see his point and I can see the appeal but detail rich skies area relative rarity for me so it's hard for me to deliberately remove detail from them.
Any views on this style?
Something along those lines. It could be tiny oil droplets from aperture blades etc. Personally I wouldn't worry about it too much; just clone them out and move on.I'd be amazed if you saw sensor contamination wide open or anything like it. I think what you're seeing is more likely to be tiny imperfections or contamination on or in the glass somewhere.
I've only once seen contamination wide open and that was with my Panasonic GM5 which had contamination under the sensor glass. It's not impossibly that your Sony has contamination under the glass I suppose but my guess would be the lens. Could you try a bokeh test with another lens and see if the results are different?
Appears with both the 35mm and 50mmI'd be amazed if you saw sensor contamination wide open or anything like it. I think what you're seeing is more likely to be tiny imperfections or contamination on or in the glass somewhere.
I've only once seen contamination wide open and that was with my Panasonic GM5 which had contamination under the sensor glass. It's not impossibly that your Sony has contamination under the glass I suppose but my guess would be the lens. Could you try a bokeh test with another lens and see if the results are different?
It's odd as they're seen wide open yet on a stopped down white wall test there's nothing. The bokeh shots were at min focus distance then moved back to get the bokeh balls.Something along those lines. It could be tiny oil droplets from aperture blades etc. Personally I wouldn't worry about it too much; just clone them out and move on.
However I have to say that extreme close / macro focus does reveal sensor dust a lot earlier, as if the lens become much more stopped down. It is good idea to keep it relatively clean.
Do the test at min focus distance like at f/13 or so.It's odd as they're seen wide open yet on a stopped down white wall test there's nothing. The bokeh shots were at min focus distance then moved back to get the bokeh balls.
shining a torch through the lens gives the idea how horrible it is inside of your near pristine lens. Do it if you want to know the uncensored truth. However it doesn't lead anywhere good. You may never find a perfect - perfectly clean consumer lens.I'd expect droplets of oil to appear on a white door test if the lens is stopped down.
I think this could likely be in the lens itself and just as onion rings are in the lens and revealed wide open these are being revealed wide open too.
Just my guess but if the stopped down door test is clean what else is left other than something/somethings in the lens?
I normally do a blue sky but I've not see one of those for a while I do normally try for ISO 100 but it's very dark and gloomy today.This is how I do a contamination test.
Set the lens to minimum aperture, f16 or whatever.
Set focus to infinity.
Set ISO to 100.
Point the camera at a white door.
If the shutter speed is too long up the ISO until a reasonable shutter speed is obtainable.
(Something like 4 or 8 seconds is easily enough, you don't need 20 seconds or anything like it.)
Press the shutter.
Whilst the shutter is open move the camera about, left to right or up and down or in a circular pattern.
(The point of this is to stop any detail on the door being recorded sharply.)
You should end up with a grey featureless picture unless you have some sensor contamination and if you do it should appear quire clearly.
If contamination appears try the inbuilt cleaning option, if that doesn't work try a Rocket and if that doesn't shift it a wet clean or some type of contact clean is needed.
I use qimage which is brilliant for this type of thingIf anyone is using CS2023 or anything like it I have a question in the printing section... but it could have been in the post processing section...
Help printing multiple pictures on one page in CS2023.
I used to be able to do this but I've either forgotten or it's vastly different to how I did it in CS5. What I want to do is size pictures and then print two or more different pictures on one sheet of A4. Sounds simple but my mind has gone :D I would just do it in the windows picture...www.talkphotography.co.uk
I use qimage which is brilliant for this type of thing
I woudl care tooOn the subject of obsessing over things...
I told Mrs WW about the Pergear 35mm f1.4 issues and that I'd written to Pergear and she laughed and said "No one cares except you. You're the only one."
I'm with you on that too, it jumps out at me and I can't understand why it doesn't for othersYes. But I've come to accept that me and people like me aren't exactly.... normal people.
Normal people don't care about things I care about. One non photography example... I hate to see a TV with the picture in the wrong mode and if it is I just can't follow what's on, all I can see is that it's in the wrong mode. Other "normal" people don't seem to notice or care. I can't understand that. How conscious are they?
wonderful!
where was this taken?
What kindof sorcery is thisHa! that surprised you didn't it? Me using an auto focus lens
You can send it to me to make sure this does not have to happen again if that helpsMrs WW wanted to put the tree up so we did.
A7 and Sony 35mm f1.8.
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Ha! that surprised you didn't it? Me using an auto focus lens
Yeah I'm intrigued by this too, not mention it has a regular filter threadThis is mounted on an A7c suggesting it’s FF, that’s one wide angle lens if so
First images of a new Laowa 10mm f/2.8 autofocus wide angle lens! – sonyalpharumors
www.sonyalpharumors.com
It's an interesting one for me. I see people with distinctive editing styles which I like, but when I try similar myself and I see the image changing away from what I remember and the edit starting point my brain rebels and tells me it's wrong. That said, his editing to remove distractions from his vision through luminance/saturation is interesting and something I will experiment with,I can see the appeal but I tend not to want to move too far from reality as a big part of it for me is capturing a memory and then there's the whole living in the NE thing... where skies are very often just a grey/white featureless nothingness and to push things that way and lose whatever colour and detail are there just feels... wrong to me.
I'd watched a few of his vids before and not noticed what he's doing until on one of his walkabout vids I saw the end result next to what was seen at the moment of taking and in its reality.
It's an interesting one for me. I see people with distinctive editing styles which I like, but when I try similar myself and I see the image changing away from what I remember and the edit starting point my brain rebels and tells me it's wrong. That said, his editing to remove distractions from his vision through luminance/saturation is interesting and something I will experiment with,
I like both, sometimes I want an accurate record but sometimes I want more aesthetically pleasing. Depends what I'm shooting and what mood I'm inThat's a big issue for me as mostly I'm trying to capture a moment and a memory to replay later and as I mentioned before nice feature rich skies and the chance to include them in a picture are something of a rarity for me and I'm reluctant to deliberately remove detail in fact I often do the opposite and select the sky and process it so that detail is preserved.
I can see the appeal of both accuracy and art and I suppose there's a bit of each in us all.
He's a good photographer, no question, and after seeing that vid I now understand what he's doing and why better but I just can't see myself trying to do the same thing or if I do not to the extend he does it.