*** This Week Through Your M4/3 2017.05.13 ***

I like the message here and its a nice image as well Jessie. I think that other than the Native Americans, and perhaps them as well if we go back far enough, we are all immigrants in the Americas. A fact that seems to be lost on some.

Andrew

I like the composition of the first. I have walked over the structure in the second, read the plaque, but failed to notice if it had an actual purpose other than being an interesting installation.

Andrew

His joy is obvious in this capture Alan.

Andrew

Talk about money to burn! Hope they get paid for competing as those tires can not be cheap!

Andrew

Surely a part of it!

I had looked at the details for both images. It is a bit difficult to decide what factors are at play. I don't think the hand holding had much effect on either though. If you examine the small antennas on the building tops near the focal points of the images they seem to be clean single lines at 1:1. That would seem to dismiss camera movement from the factors, for me any way. The first is at a lower ISO but has more noise visible at 1:1 so that contributes to the 'not sharp' feeling although there is still ample detail visible at the focus point. I am assuming that the increased noise is from the processing since that was shot later than the second so likely less light. I think the f/1.8 aperture used for both and the depth of field at that aperture is a large contributor to the 'not sharp' feeling but that lens is also not known for being stellar for sharpness so I am going to go out on a limb and say that may be the largest contributor to that feeling of lack of critical sharpness. Still, I like the atmosphere and content of both images. I am not sure that there is any visible reason to choose on camera over the other from this pair of images. Shooting with the EM1 and the EM5 (both original versions) I greatly prefer the ergonomics of the EM1 over the 5. I fully can appreciate choosing to have two bodies that are the same, especially if you have any reason to prefer one over the other. Given your inclination for street shooting I think I would go with the Pen F over the other body myself.

Andrew

19andrew47 said:

I had looked at the details for both images. It is a bit difficult to decide what factors are at play. I don't think the hand holding had much effect on either though. If you examine the small antennas on the building tops near the focal points of the images they seem to be clean single lines at 1:1. That would seem to dismiss camera movement from the factors, for me any way. The first is at a lower ISO but has more noise visible at 1:1 so that contributes to the 'not sharp' feeling although there is still ample detail visible at the focus point. I am assuming that the increased noise is from the processing since that was shot later than the second so likely less light. I think the f/1.8 aperture used for both and the depth of field at that aperture is a large contributor to the 'not sharp' feeling but that lens is also not known for being stellar for sharpness so I am going to go out on a limb and say that may be the largest contributor to that feeling of lack of critical sharpness. Still, I like the atmosphere and content of both images. I am not sure that there is any visible reason to choose on camera over the other from this pair of images. Shooting with the EM1 and the EM5 (both original versions) I greatly prefer the ergonomics of the EM1 over the 5. I fully can appreciate choosing to have two bodies that are the same, especially if you have any reason to prefer one over the other. Given your inclination for street shooting I think I would go with the Pen F over the other body myself.

Andrew

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Thanks for your thoughts. Didn't mean to imply a comparison between these two images was the reason to sell my EM5-2. In general I find more pictures that have an edge that I have taken with the Pen F. I just wondered if they were sharp enough. I convinced myself they are but then I look again and they seem to lack something. Ho hum, if I could have had a comparison taken on a tripod I'd know, but I rarely carry a decent one and this was a holiday.

Last week I took a walk after work up one of the local hills, where the wildflowers were on full display. It was slow going, as there were so many photo ops and I had to be careful not to trample the flowers. I still have more to process, including some attempts at handheld focus stacking (we'll see how that turns out...), but here are a few:


Start of the trail . Same old railway as last week's post, about 15km north.


Maple leafing out


Not sure what these are called, but they are abundant.


Again...


Arbutus hanging on to mossy rock


Shooting star


The lake


Camas over the lake




Camas


Vanilla leaf




Fiddleheads



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Shawn Wright

OMG - I just love the first picture of the lake. Glad that you posted it hi-res so I can pore over the little houses.

The lake shot from above is terrific Shawn and I enjoyed the wildflowers as well. A bit different than here.

Andrew

G85 and Panasonic 7-14 in Garden Of the Gods Park May 13, 2017...

Nice - but even nicer to see it in slightly higher res.

Wormsmeat said:

Nice - but even nicer to see it in slightly higher res.

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Thx, Worms...but I never post the hi rez versions to the web.

Nice shots, but I prefer the colour in the water in the first, along with the interest of the people in the foreground at the right side.

Difficult to compare bodies on these two images with different times and locations, but it sure would be interested to see both side by side. The Pen F does seem somehow noisy for the ISO, but also seems to retain good detail. But the E-M5ii also seems to handle some of the bright lights better, possibly due to the ~1EV lower exposure; the PenF highlights in the buildings are a bit hotter. Although the PenF shot was taken earlier, the light intensity from the buildings should have been about the same. What was the process used on the PenF image - it shows as MetaRAW?

Great set, thanks for posting! We had the privilege of spending Easter on Santorini 6 years ago, and were made very welcome by the locals; there were few tourists on the island in the off season.

The third image has a wonderful festive feel to it!

No, no skateboarding... it's just supposed to be "art". I think they wanted to make an iconic Toronto landmark down by the water.

Great set, especially the third, and the crypt with goldfish! Will definitely have to check this out when we visit Venice someday...

Nice colours in both. I notice the first is at f/22 and ISO100 - was this deliberate to get the shutter speed low? I think it suffers from some diffraction softness, and maybe some movement in the dredging tower as result.

Beautiful set! I especially like the snowy egret.