First shot is fun, if it were not your word then I'd suspect photoshopping...
Seems like road is only place for cows to rest without rolling down...
First shot is fun, if it were not your word then I'd suspect photoshopping...
Seems like road is only place for cows to rest without rolling down...
Love this shot. I think that colour version works better, BW gets lost for me with all the details.
78 000 frames? Wow, it's full-time job for several days.
Love these images, they look like computer renderings with geometry and cleanness.
Well I have only copied a fraction of the total, just the stuff that I interested me. It still took several days.
Sunset at Black Coppice
2. Backlit Grass
I was quite taken with this backlit grass set against the colours of the quarry. I tried a number of shots here, but this is the best one I came up with. Not quite what I was aiming for, whatever that was. I do like the grouping of three trees in a row at the back, which also feel like they need further investigation.
I'm always a sucker for backlit grasses 😊
Reims
A fine set as usual, of a fine building. It's the last with its geometrical play and subtle shading that I enjoyed most.
Experimented with ND filter and hoped some seagulls would remain still enough.
Very nice results, how did you sedate these birds and they stayed 25s :) Were you singing :) I liked it very much, it has a sinister tone and I love it.
A short break in Mühlbach
So time for hiking of course. Here's a few from various trips last week.
I'm still waiting for the B&W film that I took to be developed and scanned, and curious to see if that worked OK, but in the meantime here's a few digital shotsUp & over.
Here's my son on a swing on the top of a mountain; positioned so it looks like he's really high and over the top of the next mountain :-)
No photoshop here!
I love swings :)
Wow this is scary!
These are really pretty
Great to be out in the mountains again !
I dont know which one is more creepy, the place or the exhibition.
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This is my pick, I think BW suits it too.
I like your first and last most. Great renditions!
Maybe you could loan Q3 for comparison and see what it does...
Yes, I will get it time to time. Watch this space !
For me, spending £5.5K on a fixed lens camera is the very definition of madness. And a 28mm at that.
I would buy the Panny all day long over the Q3. And still have money left over to buy a Sony full frame compact too.
They are very different beasts though, I'm wondering why those were the two models left on your shortlist.As for the pictures, 2 and 4 are very good, 3 and 6 are excellent.
OK, Q3 is a unique camera, no camera delivers high MP FF sensor and sharp and fast lens in that small package. Even A7C (not MPs) with a fast lens attached. Thats the appeal, having RF design is desirable by many (including me). The closest thing is X100V which is cropped, 35 mm and no OIS.
You can get a A7RV and a 1.4 lens of you favourite FL, this combo will be cheaper than Q3 plus you dont need to wait Leica's LOTTERY to be able to get one [Yes you need to be selected by Leica to be able to get one, it is funny isn't it; you have been selected to give us £5.3K:) ] you can get your Sony delivered next day. But financially it still makes sense if you take in to account its potential resale value. People paid £4 K at the launch of Q2 can sell their cameras after 4 years around £3.5 @ eBay. I can reasonably expect Q3 will keep its value in a similar way.
Now why I wanted to get one. In my mind, I thought I needed a ILC system and a small everyday camera with weather sealing. Q3 would have been ideal for, DoF control, low light FF camera and small. High MP would have been a bonus. [Ideally a EM5 M3 would be nice but small mFT primes are not weather sealed, weather sealed ones are not small, for me pretty useless above ISO 1600.] So I thought if I had Q3, this would have solved small package problem [mainly for street photography], I would be able to get back the money I spent if I decided to sell or part exchange[so financially not as bad as it looks] and my Pana G9 would be good for other bits.
But I did not get Q3 and decided to go for FF ILC and keep X100V for small package. I sacrificed from high MP, OIS , FF low light and DoF control on my small camera [X100V] and spent much less.
Overall I am happy. My needs for Q3 are probably just excuses. X100V serves well, S5 delivers so much more than its price tag.
Sunset at Black Coppice
I had planned to head up to Great Hill again on Thursday evening and the weather looked quite promising too, but general apathy meant I only managed to drag myself out relatively late, leaving slightly less than two hours from the moment I first set boot on moor until the time sunset was due to occur.
My first port of call was Black Coppice where I'd intended to spend a few minutes exploring the area where I'd planned to go last week before the other photographer set up shop there, before moving on deeper into the moors. This plan also hastily went out of the window and I ended up spending way too long exploring the top of the quarries and seeing what compositions I could come up with incorporating the the heather that's probably a little past its best now, but still rather vibrant. I got a few nice shots, but nothing particularly exciting considering the amount of time I spent.
Eventually I set off up the Black Brook path that leads deeper onto the moors. After 20 minutes or so of repeatedly stopping to grab shots of backlit heather or awkward shots of the heather laced grass on the far bank I realised that if I carried on I was going to end up totally cut off from any sort of view when sunset happened and took the executive decision to turn back and spend sunset on Black Coppice where at least there would be views, although, as it turned out, very little time to really think about what to do with them.
All images taken handheld with the Nikon Z7 plus either 24-70 f/2.8S or 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 VR S. Processed from single raw files in Capture One Pro 23.
1. The Goit
The Goit is a man made canal running from the Roddlesworth (yes, that's a real place name) reservoir chain to feed into the Rivington chain at Anglezarke (that one is too!). I've taken this shot a few times now in different evening conditions. Here, the upper the canopy is a little less intensely lit than it has been on previous occasions, which I think adds to the weight of it when used to frame the rest of the image.
Just lately I've been watching quite a bit of Steve O'Nions on Youtube, who shoots a lot of B&W film which has inspired me to try a few B&W conversions, included here as bonus pics. When processing these, I've been thinking about what my preferences were when I used to shoot on film back in the
stone agelate 1980's. I was never a fan of grainy film, preferring to shoot on fine grain high contrast emulsion like Pan F and then print on multigrade paper at a middling contrast level, so this is what I've aimed for here. With some selective colour biasing, plus a bump in contrast and exposure this conversion seems to have taken on a bit of a glow the colour original didn't have. I almost feel like getting the Bronica out. I wonder if it still works?I think BW conversion suits it very well
2. Backlit Grass
I was quite taken with this backlit grass set against the colours of the quarry. I tried a number of shots here, but this is the best one I came up with. Not quite what I was aiming for, whatever that was. I do like the grouping of three trees in a row at the back, which also feel like they need further investigation.
OOF areas very nicely presented here, nice shot
3. Sheep In a Quarry
An inquisitive sheep inspects a nook, or maybe a cranny. Regardless of whatever kind of orifice it's eating ferns from, I liked the subtle tones here between the heather, grass and rocks, plus the texture on the quarry wall.
Curiosity killed the sheep
I also figured this one would make a nice B&W conversion, which is kind of ironic considering how much I've just waffled on about subtle colours. I think it emphasises the rocky textures quite nicely though.
I must say that I liked the colour more, vegetations have nice contrasting colours, I prefer to see this in colour
Reims
Still dinning out on my holiday pictures.
This is the less famous Gothic Basilique Saint-Remi in Reims- Much less visited but quite spectacular.
Sorry if I do not participate much this week. The provincial theatre that I worked for (second job) doing performing arts photography have acquired my negatives of the work I did for them back in the nineties for their historic archives. I am busy making digital scans of the stuff that interests me, before I hand them over. I am going through about 78,000 frames. It is quite nice reliving old times and finding shots I missed the first time around.
A WOW set, you should dig your archives more often, these are my picks but the WHOLE set is so nice.
@Daneland has written:The snippets of reflections make these interesting.
Yes, I think so.
@Daneland has written:Although I do like your B&W shots where there are nice big dark areas, I feel like the first too are a bit too dark.
Number 6, with the bicycle in front of the shop windows, has that nice effect I've seen before from you of being dark but with just enough shadow interest on the subject and contrasts that with the bright shop window.That smokey head looks weird and funny !
Thanks your nice comments, the appearance of the woman was just a silhouette and I wanted to keep it this way. But I see your point.