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Passageway

Cem_Usakligil

Cem_Usakligil

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This is one of those pictures which demonstrate the great dynamic range of the Sony A7. The picture is from a single exposure, exposed for the highlights which has pushed the passageway into black (apparently). However, after taking the raw file into LR5 (I didn't even bother to utilize the superior noise reduction of DxO since I wasn't planning on printing it yet), this is what I was able to recover in those blacks. I could have gone further but I didn't bother for it since I wanted to create a natural looking transition. The picture is very slightly cropped on the left hand side, sometimes the 20mm is wider than required, lol.

When I used to shoot with any other camera I've owned (excluding the D800), this picture would definitely need exposure bracketing to deliver these results. Anyway, I think that the picture isn't too bad either. ;) What do you think? Please feel free to comment.

 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Cem_Usakligil said:
This is one of those pictures which demonstrate the great dynamic range of the Sony A7. The picture is from a single exposure, exposed for the highlights which has pushed the passageway into black (apparently). However, after taking the raw file into LR5 (I didn't even bother to utilize the superior noise reduction of DxO since I wasn't planning on printing it yet), this is what I was able to recover in those blacks. I could have gone further but I didn't bother for it since I wanted to create a natural looking transition. The picture is very slightly cropped on the left hand side, sometimes the 20mm is wider than required, lol.

When I used to shoot with any other camera I've owned (excluding the D800), this picture would definitely need exposure bracketing to deliver these results. Anyway, I think that the picture isn't too bad either. ;) What do you think? Please feel free to comment.
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Of course, Cem, I'm both fascinated and impressed by the remarkable dynamic range of this camera. Sony has done such a lot of good work with its Minolta inheritance! Kudos to them!

However, I'm even more fascinated by the fortune to catch a person passing by at the end of the passageway and your continued success in building on the master theme of "Portals". I think this particular scene is most challenging as the wall art is quite strong and the angle on top of the passageway entrance is an additional strong factor competing with the passageway itself. You are, no doubt, considering a variety of ways to work further on this location, if it's near you.

Asher
 
Cem_Usakligil

Cem_Usakligil

Well-known member
Thanks Asher. I'm not so sure about the Minolta heritage playing any role in the development of Sony sensors but I'm fine either way.

I've never stopped working on my portals, it is still alive and kicking. It's just that I don't show many of the photos I take. This location is in Dordrecht, some 35 minutes by car from my home. So I go there often. It is also the city of my Long Iron Bridge and some others I've shared before. I have photographed this passageway many times before, just didn't care to share those apparently. Just so you know that this is not one of a kind without "siblings". ;)
 
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Rob Naylor

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Apart from the good dynamic range of this image, it has many things to offer than first meets the eye...

Composition -
"rule of thirds" - nailed it,
"lead-in Lines" - nailed it.
"focal point" - nailed it.

Tonal quality -
"well balanced" - nailed it.

Depth of field -
"full" - nailed it.

Quirkiness
"woman passing the end of the tunnel" - nailed it.
She in turn is well composed within the frame of the end of the tunnel, 1/3 in from right, and moving towards clear space.

The subdued colours match the subject really well, and make the green graffiti pop.

As you can probably tell, I like this.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
As you know, Cem, I'm always very interested in lines of inheritance of ideas and the choice of which siblings lead the next generation of advances. DNA is always part of my thinking of how anything survives the battering of so many possible choices in the way to being alive and surviving death at a whim of the creator! That's what happens in life, in engineering and in art!,

Cem_Usakligil said:
Thanks Asher. I'm not so sure about the Minolta heritage playing any role in the development of Sony sensors but I'm fine either way.
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Not so much the sensor, but there was influence, but it was the camera itself that the heritage refers to!

."........It's been almost two years since Konica Minolta pulled out of the photo business and transferred its entire camera division to Sony, and well over a year since the first Sony DSLR (the DSLR-A100) was announced. Two years is a long time in the digital SLR market, but the three years Minolta (latterly Konica Minolta, now Sony) SLR users have been waiting for a high end model to replace the innovative Maxxum (Dynax) 7D must have felt like a lifetime. But, finally, it's here, and it looks very much like the mockup shown earlier in the year. Like the A100, the new camera still wears its Konica Minolta heritage very much on its sleeve, and when you start to look a little more closely at the specification it's obvious that there's still an awful lot of Konica Minolta DNA in the A700. This is hardly surprising given that the circumstances behind its development.......... "Sourcehttp://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sonydslra700

But, of course, you knew that. I'm just putting this here for those who might not have realized where the new camera came from! The simplified and brilliant industrial design of circuits, the cables, packaging and assembly, inside the camera, is brilliantly Sony.

Asher
 
Cem_Usakligil

Cem_Usakligil

Well-known member
Rob Naylor said:
Apart from the good dynamic range of this image, it has many things to offer than first meets the eye...

Composition -
"rule of thirds" - nailed it,
"lead-in Lines" - nailed it.
"focal point" - nailed it.

Tonal quality -
"well balanced" - nailed it.

Depth of field -
"full" - nailed it.

Quirkiness
"woman passing the end of the tunnel" - nailed it.
She in turn is well composed within the frame of the end of the tunnel, 1/3 in from right, and moving towards clear space.

The subdued colours match the subject really well, and make the green graffiti pop.

As you can probably tell, I like this.
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Thanks Rob, I really appreciate it. Don't you just love it when everything comes together?
 
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