Sergey Kuznetsov
The land before time. Iceland.
Sony Nex-7 + SEL1855.
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Mark Reeder
The School House
North Dakota
A7R FE 55MM 1.8
www.markbensonreeder.com
https://www.facebook.com/markbensonreeder
Lili Feher Attila Kovacs
How I like Cambridge! Shoot with RX1.
Einstein Gan
Boracay, Philippines – Sony A7 + FE 16-35mm F4 ZA OSS | f/18 | 2.5s | ISO 50
Pierre Paqueton
Paris, Passerelle Valmy, La Défense. Shot with an A6000, a Zeiss 24f1.8 at f5.6, 1.6 sec, ISO 100. You can see more on my website, as usual: https://lecomptoirdepierre.wordpress.com
Pavel ‘Pasharome’ Vavilin
“Nana”
ILCE-6000 + Hexanon 50/1.7
Jan Wilhelm
Rainbow church in Iceland
A7 FE 28-70 70mm f/8.0 1/200 ISO 100
(https://www.flickr.com/photos/107211676@N07/)
Pierre Paqueton
La Défense, Paris, A6000 with a Zeiss 24f1.8. Settings: ISO 100, f5.6 and 25sec. You can find more picture here if you wish: https://lecomptoirdepierre.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/la-defense-ou-quand-paris-se-modernise-hors-les-murs/
Rico Lee Wei-Jie·
Small window of scenery
Slow down, and you might find interesting scape.
Took this during last Penang trip. Was driving along the northern part of island and decided slow stroll along the beach. Before touching the sand I thought I found an interesting scene just at the side of busy road. Cropped slightly.
3 exposures HDR blend
a6000 + Sigma 30mm f/2.8
My page: https://www.facebook.com/ASDgraphy
Jake Jung
Kyoto’s Yasaka Pagoda during the Higashiyama Hanatoro lantern event.
α6000 + SEL1018
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jacobjjung/
Andreas Elste
Sony A7 + Zeiss FE 55 1.8
@55mm | F14 | 1/200s | ISO100 smile emoticon
Joseph Shbair
Sony NEX-5N
E 50mm F1.8 OSS ƒ/1.8 1/80 ISO 800
Julio Vázquez Moral
Lauterbrunnen in the Alps. Sony A7 with kit lens.
Bernhard Wimair
My first “expedition” with my new A7s turned out great. The picture already made it into the top 5 of the “popular” category on 500px. Didn’t have a picture there in all my canon-years (well, I’ve never been in Hallstatt – that’s where I shot that picture – before. That may be one of a few reasons smile emoticon ).
Two Twenty Studios
Last Shot of Winter
Sony A7 II, Zeiss 24-70 FE, 25mm, f/20, 1/60 sec, ISO 6400
www.twotwentystudios.com
Dan Levitan
Photo by Dan Levitan. A7S w/ FE 55 F1.8.
Bilal Rafi
Shot an entire wedding shoot with the A7r, FE 55 and HVL-F43M. Indoors and outdoors in the rain smile emoticon Was a tough decision to let go of my trusted D4 and 85/1.4G for this job, however it went great!
James Backer
After a record 5 days of total cloud cover in Kona Hawaii we had a sunset tonight…
A7r FE24-70 @24mm f8 1/30 ISO200 -.7 ev handheld
34 Responses
Sergey Kuznetsov, Bernhard Wimair, Rico Lee Wei-Jie:
beautiful shots, honestly it was hard for me to take my eyes away from them.
Jan Wilhelm, Bilal Rafi:
very well captured.
James Backer:
if only there was a better foreground. but I respect his decision of not cheating by piling some rocks or logs here and there 🙂
all in all, well done admin.
Thanks. For what it’s worth the foreground looks much better on 18×24 prints. Still not ideal but sometime you have to make do with the scene in front of you.
U R welcome, and hey if you say it looks fine then it looks fine for sure you are the artist and I’m just an observer after all. Thanks for sharing.
Great shots!
Nice spread of pics this week.
Wow! This week’s selections are on FIRE!
Amazing shots!
How come most gear-related posts get dozens or even hundreds of
comments, while these photo selections struggle to get even ten
comments? Isn’t the pictures what it’s all about in the end?
I’m going to get flamed regardless of whether I say something the trolls agree with or not, for that reason I’m unlikely to reply to any replies to this, especially having witnessed about 10 people pretend to me (I’m guessing it’s 10 by their writing styles).
It’s a rumours site for sony alpha cameras. Likewise, if there were a site about television screen reviews and a film was posted, although films might be all what it’s about in the end, people would be going to that site for television screen reviews. I visit different sites for different purposes. As far as I’m concerned, photos like this and the constant ebay advertisements are not only spam but they’re a violation of the adsense agreement (to have original content and to not push advertisements).
In regards to the photographs themselves. There’s a poor use of lighting; they’re over processed, and crunchy. The skin tones are awful. Healing brush isn’t cruise control for cool, nor is clone tool set at 20% opacity. To get realistic skin tones while KEEPING skin texture, you NEED to clone at 100%, otherwise one texture starts to wash over the other, smoothing out the original texture.
You can separate texture from light, image / apply image 2 / 128 (8bit) or 2 / 0 (16bit) / linear light, but if you’re just gonna thrash the texture what’s the point?
It’s not believable. It doesn’t look good. I’m not saying all things should be realistic, but seriously? People talk about dynamic range but they clip the blacks thus ruining the dynamic range. I see no logic in that at all.
The last photograph, some over processed clouds and some green. What story does the photograph tell? What is the subject? Where is this taken? The boat photograph shows how you can do a landscape with a subject, it’s altogether much better. What’s with the rock on the side? Photograph ruined. This is likely because he took a tripod that day, planned to take a tripod, thought hey this setting looks nice. I’ll put the tripod in the ground, THOU SHALL NOT PASS. That tripod ain’t going ANYWHERE.
This is pure conjecture but it’s a fault I’ve seen by many photographers. Once the tripod goes down, they sit there until the light goes.
Bernhard Wimair’s photograph with the blue and orange is my favourite.
The composition is good. Ignoring the lighting, the mountains and the edge of the river or lake or whatever it is, guide you to the subject. The lighting guides your eyes to the subject.
If this were a painting, you’d say it was a good use of colour theory. The blue and orange go well, this is usually the case with 180 degree colour opposites on a colour wheel
The green doesn’t really fit. You might be able to get away with a reddish or slightly purple hue in the photograph but green is totally out of place in my opinion. Fortunately there’s only a bit in the corner and it’s not always easy to remove a tree from a photograph obviously. If there were an equally good angle or point of view to take the photograph while removing the tree in the corner, I’d have gone with that.
This photograph is a good example of why colour is more complex than black and white. Colours can guide your eyes just like light can.
http://www.designingfortheweb.co.uk/images/colour_wheel.png
For some of the other photographs. Cool you stuck a camera on a tripod and pressed the shutter button
Because there’s nothing to argue about here.
The pictures are wonderful, though.
Precisely.
Because this is a gear oriented site. Not a “please, judge my picture” site.
=)
Half of the SAR audience never own a camera and they are still waiting for the curved 100mp global shutter sensor to start shooting 🙂 and the other half are here to post some anti-troll childish comments.
Excellent pictures, well done guys! I really like Bernhard Wimair’s, Rico Lee’s and Sergey’s picture. Let’s give praises before someone complains that the bokeh is out of focus!
The only thing missing is a picture of a cat. The alps picture is perfect…just needs a cat flying by and it would be gold. Same thing with the picture of the church and the rainbow. If there was a cat jumping over that rainbow- BAM- museum worthy.
Here, relax:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34d57Jdfd5g
Good selection this week, with pictures for all the tastes.
My personal favorite is Jan Wilhem’s picture.
Cry me a river. People don’t agree with you, boo hoo. When you get off of your high horse, maybe there will be a real discussion.
Ok, would you prefer to see some examples of my quality photography instead of excelent critique of others?
No, that wasn’t my point. You don’t even need to be a photographer to like or dislike someone else’s photos, in my opinion. You are clearly a smart person, so just go over your first sentence to see what I mean.
As to the rest of your post, you have your arguments, some good, some not so good; however, they are not what I was addressing, although some of it sound somewhat pretentious; but, hey, I do that too so…
As it happens, I’m not a photographer by trade, simply a passionate hobbyist who enjoys reading and writing about the subject.
Great, same here. And, frankly, I don’t take pro photographers as a reference for anything, except running a business.
This isn’t me and I am a photographer by trade. I just hate seeing lovely settings go to waste because someone isn’t creative or original or daring enough to put a decent subject in the frame
You are a fake and fraud
The more you take photos, the more you become critical, you see smaller and smaller issue etc. And, obviously, this defines your tastes. Except, you can’t expect perfection from everyone all the time. To be frank, I also think the photos you mentioned are oversaturated, but then I still managed to enjoy them.
“I see no logic in that at all.”
Aren’t you looking for logic in the wrong places?
“I’m guessing it’s 10 by their writing styles”.
You’re not very good at guessing, my friend.
Hyperbole
Non sequitur
Well I took that last photo that you criticized so strongly. You are 100% wrong on almost all your assumptions! First that image was shot handheld in RAW and there was only the default lightroom import processing. +25 sharpening, lens correction, and camera profile set to Sony camera std. THE WAS NO ADDITIONAL PROCESSING DONE! Straight from RAW import to LR Export module as 100% sRGB .JPEG and resized to 2880px long edge! As for where it was taken it was in the text as well as all main camera settings. As for composition I had no foreground options, we were hiking down a 13,000 volcano with vary little variation in terrain when the sunset started to pop. I did what any real professional would do and made the most of the situation that nature and location provided. As for the Subject it was the stunning colored clouds you fool… and the color explosion lasted for less than 3 minutes!
Maybe you should get off your couch and turn off your computer and actually go out and shoot some photos rather than making completely wrong assumptions from looking at poorly rendered Facebook postings! I’ve been making a very lucrative living as a photographer for over 25 years. What do you have to show for making critcally wrong assumptions?
The tripod comment was about the boat photograph. I can only judge by what is shown here.
“+25 sharpening, lens correction, and camera profile set to Sony camera std. THERE WAS NO ADDITIONAL PROCESSING DONE! Straight from RAW import to LR Export module as 100% sRGB .JPEG and resized to 2880px long edge!”
You should do very minimal (25 is not minimal) sharpening prior to resizing. The sharpening should be done after resizing. This is just an objective fact regarding how photograph and lightroom function.
You saw some clouds, pointed the camera at them and pressed the shutter button. Great. But it’s a crap, skilless photograph. When a photographer judges a photograph, they aren’t just judging the scene. Anyone can fly to a nice location, not everyone can take good photographs.
“I’ve been making a very lucrative living as a photographer for over 25 years. What do you have to show for making critcally wrong assumptions?”
I’ve won multiple awards. I accept not all my assumptions were correct but you have clarified you don’t know how to edit photographs.
The fact you’re relying on lightroom and sony defaults pretty much demonstrates you aren’t a professional (e.g. highly skilled), even if it’s your profession
https://500px.com/photo/75882853/storm-by-emilia-ungur
This photograph might not have the best processing. You could take a photograph of the tornado and say the tornado is the subject. In fact, it’s more of a subject than some colourful clouds.
By using the woman (I don’t agree with her expression but that’s a side issue), the photographer creates more of a story. The photograph has a better subject than if it were simply the tornado.
https://500px.com/photo/81548137/trouble-on-the-west-by-brian-carpenter
Here is another example. The little red hut gives a sense of depth to the photograph. The clouds aren’t entirely different to yours but the photograph is much much better because it has a subject.
Your photograph is junk and you’re butthurt over it. Fair enough, but don’t insinuate I’m a bad photographer just because I criticized your work.
” I had no foreground options, we were hiking”
“we”
You remind me of new york city street photographers that say they don’t have anything interesting to photograph.
You were in a group, you had been walking for miles yet somehow you were unable to find an interesting subject.
” I’ve been making a very lucrative living as a photographer for over 25 years”
Argumentum ad antiquitatem
>The fact you’re relying on lightroom and sony defaults pretty much demonstrates you aren’t a professional (e.g. highly skilled), even if it’s your profession<
What a lot of old shite you talk! You sound like an aging clueless wedding photographer papping-off at the local Wednesday night camera club print discussion.
>The fact you’re relying on lightroom and sony defaults pretty much demonstrates you aren’t a professional (e.g. highly skilled), even if it’s your profession<
What a lot of old crap you talk! You sound like an aging clueless wedding photographer papping-off at the local Wednesday night camera club print discussion.
Again there you go making incorrect assumptions! Don’t you have anything better to do than guess and assume things about others images? You have the nerve to say:
“but you have clarified you don’t know how to edit photographs.
The fact you’re relying on lightroom and sony defaults pretty much demonstrates you aren’t a professional (e.g. highly skilled), even if it’s your profession”
Just another blatantly incorrect assumption! I didn’t have to edit that image to post it here because in camera I captured it exactly how I saw it. Also I don’t waste my valuable time editing images that will be posted on Facebook which has a terrible import algorithm and color shift. I edit, color correct and sharpen my production work strictly for large format printing and RIP output to my epson printers.
FWIW: I just returned from one of the galleries I work with and after presenting my new proofs from the trip that the image above was taken on, where you again incorrectly assumed things like:
“you had been walking for miles yet somehow you were unable to find an interesting subject.”
I truly find that assumption hysterical because I walked out of the gallery with an order for 5 each of 13 prints at 18″ x 24″ @ $125 ea. All the images were from the same trip Including orders for the image above. I also have appointments at 3 the galleries this afternoon… I really can care less about what you think, say or do! What bothers me is that you ASSUME everything about others without knowing any facts. Plus you make your ‘judgements’ from P.O.S. images posted on Facebook! How professional is that?