Vlad Shutov
Playig piano
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Burj Khalifa – Dubai
Shot with a6000, Sony 10-18 OSS lens
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Torsten Mühlbacher
Forest Light
Sony A7RII / Zeiss Batis 25mm
Torsten Mühlbacher Fotografie
Ugo Marinelli
Dreaming for a A7xxx
(taken with NEX-7 + C/Y Planar 85mm f1,2)
Joshua Preston
A Hoi An street scene, Vietnam.
I captured these two elderly men playing the ancient game of Xiangqi after dark – first played over 4000 years ago. The earliest Chinese xiangqi pieces discovered so far date are from the Song (960 – 1279 AD) and Yuan (1271 – 1368 AD) dynasties.
I particularly like the concentration on their faces. The thing that led me to take the photograph was the flickering candlelight. That same night, the whole of Hoi An was dimly lit with only lantern and candlelight to help celebrate the monthly full moon festival.
I like the sense of preparation – the candlestick on standby, the packet of cheap cigarettes. These elements seem to give the photograph a sense of timelessness and makes me wonder, just how long was this game to be played?
The movement of his right hand contrast the stillness of his left, with cigarette slowly smoking itself away showing the true level of concentration and skill present in this curb-side clash.
Taken handheld with my Sony A7ii using SEL5518Z at ISO 6400.
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Andreas Elste
Sony A7 + Samyang 135 F2
135mm | F2 | 1/200s | ISO80 smile emoticon
Olli Kops
Karolina in Venice | 2015
Carpe Lucem Photography
Shot with a99 and Sigma 35mm 1.4
Alexandros Apostolopoulos
Sony A6000 & Sony E 16mm f/2.8
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Wimair on SonyAlphaForum
My Sony A7s Landscape Portfolio
Here’s one of my favorite Shots of 2015. Every christmas I visit my parents and take a little hike on the nearby mountain to get the first sunbeams. Pretty relaxing – also pretty beautiful.
Kyle Andrew on SonyAlphaForum
In Studio with Hilary Riley
Got a chance to work with a rookie client back in early December, a friend of mine named Hilary. She was an absolute natural and so so easy to work with. I look forward to using her for upcoming projects. Full gallery available on my website, link below. All images shot on the Sony A7R II with a combination of the 55mm Sony/Zeiss 1.8, the 28mm Sony and the Canon 70-200 2.8 IS II through a Metabones IV.
HIlary Riley – Full Gallery Here
Michel Mayerle
Sony Alpha 7RII, Zeiss 55mm f/1.8
Chrome77 on SonyAlphaForum
Got this shot of a waterfall last fall. Enjoy
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A7II + 70-200F4 G
Jack Devant on SonyAlphaForum
I took a5100 and kit lens – what came out was amazing. It was minus 15C and sea-watar was plus 5C.
Anthony Bryon on SonyAlphaForum
Portrait with the sony a99 and zeiss 85
Pierre Paqueton
Paris, Notre-Dame, taken with an A6000 and a SEL50f1.8, ISO100, f5.6, 1.3sec. If you want to see more pics, please visit my blog (and don’t hesitate to leave comments) : lecomptoirdepierre.wordpress.com
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Sunrise from Dragon’s Back, Hong Kong (taken with A7II)
David Schlacht
Shot this last week with Sony a7r2
Craig Jeffries
Glass House Mountains, Sunshine Coast, Australia.
Just shot this last week looking out from Wild Horse Mountain. Stitched and bracketed Panorama shot with Sony A99 on Zeiss 16-35 2.8 lens. Using a graduated neutral density filter.
Most of my landscape stuff is on http://500px/craigjeffriesphotos
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I mainly shoot automotive and landscape.
27 Responses
The model in the first photo appears excessivly thin..!!!!
Woman often starve themselves to near death in order to achieve an unrealistic body image…and this type of photography promotes that.
Many of them die as a result.
This woman appears to be in a very dangerous and unhealthy situation, and may indeed be on the verge of serious medical issues or death because of it.
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I would be reluctant to post a photo like this for the reasons I stated above.
Strange. I think she looks healthy. I very much doubt that many die starving themselves as you describe. When I was 23 my girlfriend was a top model, (Fayel Tall, you can search for Peter Beard pictures) she was thin but she ate well. My brother also dated a top model, thin but with healthy eating habits. None have died and they have remained healthy and thin…
Looks quite normal & quite attractive to me. This political correctness crap is going way to far. Just because most western women are the size of small farm animals, does not give them the right to criticise women who take care of their bodies. Human beings have been hunter gatherers up until the last few centuries, and were not meant to be laying around stuffing food into their faces all the time. North Americans are mostly overweight or obese, and that should not be used as an indicator of what is right for everybody. I would wager that the slim women in the picture, is in much better physical condition than the the majority of the overweight western women.
Quite right! Actually most of us are too fat. I guess we shouldn’t show pictures of heavy people.
Quite right. I think her pose makes her look thinner than she is, but looks quite healthy to me.
I agree, but I don’t understand what this has to do with political correctness. Not that I am in favour of it.
My problems with this picture lie elsewhere. It is clear – as so often with pictures showing models and instruments – that the model has absolutely no idea how to play the piano. This is easily visible from the way she holds her hand. Her body posture also shows that she is not playing at all at the moment the picture was taken. So why pose in front of a piano at all? The picture also looks like a cheesy version of pictures of the really great pianist Katia Buniatishvili in concert.
She was unable to play because she only had violin music, perhaps?!
Pity it’s not piano music on the piano.
For now I removed the image. I didn’t find the image disturbing and I am alos aware you can make womens appear thinner than they are using a combination of factors. But in order to not hurt anyones sensibility I willr emove it for now and clear out things with the photogrpaher.
This type of image is very popular and many find it attractive…as todays comments show.
That is exactly the reason so many woman resort to extraordinary and dangerous behaviors to achieve this kind of body image.
My concern is for the well being of such woman.
I realize my comment here may be unpopular…but as everyone knows I do not hesitate to make unpopular comments if I think they should be said.
Thank you for your action, I believe you have done a good thing.
P.S.
Even if this particular woman is not at risk…this type of image still presents the same danger, and still promotes anorexia.
Removing this picture and self-censoring your blog is definitely political correctness. I strongly regret such a move.
I am sorry but I think that is the wrong approach. Today it does not matter what one says or shows or does it will always hurt someones sensibility. I would keep the image. Discussion and controversy is healthy and necessary.
I don’t like the self-censorship. It was clearly a very artful photograph that was neither pornographic nor otherwise exploitative. There has to be a reasonableness standard. There is always one person who is going to be offended by something.
If you change so easily because of one person, where does it stop. A persons opinion is that an opinion. The woman actually looked very healthy and fit. I think animals opinion is wrong in this instance yet he was able to stop the rest of the visitors to your site the ability to see this image. So what is the next step because there is always one no matter how ridiculous. Plastic surgery can be very dangerous to alter ones looks and has resulted in deaths. Therefore, I would like all the photos of physically attractive people removed from this site. This will help me stop trying to obtain the desire to be on the cover of people for sexiest man. And don’t get me started on those poor animals in zoos who are there for our enjoyment and photographing pleasure.
Lot of beautiful women this week.
Oh yes, if I win the lotto I’m going to pay Sony to build me a custom A99II!
If I win the lotto tonight, I honestly plan on giving every adult (in America) $1million. That should leave me with roughly 350mil.
Forest light n the water fall are very nice. The anorexic piano woman and the same sexulized women portraits week after week are just cliche and over done
Forrest light pic is great indeed.
Very nice landscapes pics even when the field is woman body;)….. if the women are so sexy it’s maybe because Sony camera are sexy;)
Although I often like pictures from Vlad, this one is really misfortuned. In that pose nobody can play something more complicated than “Jingle Bells” for children, her hand is lying on the keyboard like on a dinner-table and the skrewed posture shows her shoulders section unflattering oversized with actually typical masculine triangle-back.
The foggy Forest Light is great and I like the look from Samyang 135/2
Good on that pianist for having a go at some violin music… 🙂
Ok, this is offtopic, but:
Not so long ago everybody said Sony was filling out the gaps in their lens lineup faster than anybody else. Now I’m starting to get the feeling everybody else is announcing new lenses while Sony is… I dunno? The last lens announcement was a year ago! And that introduced “only” 4 lenses. I know, I know, it’s not that little. But Sony is trying to conquer the market. They are not in a position to sit back and relax. They made a HUGE hit with the A7RII. But they need to back this up with more lenses. We shouldn’t be reading stuff like “A7RII with adapted Canon 70-200 f2.8”. This should read “A7RII with the amazing new FE 70-200 f2.8”! And not “A7 with Samyang MF 135mm”. It should be “shot with the new FE 135mm”.
Just my two cents 😉
Or at least ”A7RII with adapter >>SONY<< 70-200 f2.8 G2''
Perhaps a consequence of the adapter craze, the number of third-party options, and/or the profile of the majority of e-mount purchasers? Maybe Sony is not seeing a big market there yet for Sony branded lenses with its present e-mount line up? (Or not.). It is interesting that Zeiss has recently produced some lenses without a native e-mount option. Logically if Sony saw a big market for Sony branded e-mount lenes probably we would be seeing them by now, wouldn’t we?
P.S. The a7rii is a hit, but is it a “HUGE hit.” If you mean in terms of unit sales, I don’t know that we have seen the sales data which proves that. In the grand scheme, in terms of gross interchangeable camera sales, I still believe the a7rii is a niche camera.
Plenty of a99 shots this time…good good.
Indeed.
Still loving the a99
Lots of great compositions.
Though I do hate the dreaded tonal compression glow that comes with post processing, Specifically around the mountain tops against the blue skies.
How so many photographers can miss this is beyond me, but… it’s just yuk in every sense of the term to have to see this.
One of those days there’ll be an “SAR readers photos selection” with no actual Alpha camera used, only the Elphas.