This week with your Z6/7/50, Nov 30-Dec 6 2019

JimKasson · Dec 1, 2019

BostonBoy said:
For an (amateur) play in town I have been asked to provide a stage background photo of an old shed or barn. The photo will be printed 15+ feet wide. The hunt for the right motive was part of the fun. Did I succeed?

Old Barn

Fun project. Good choice of subject. I would not have used a zoom lens nearly wide open for this assignment, but from the point of view of the audience, It will probably make no difference. Was the camera on a tripod? Could you have stopped down a bit?

Jim

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carl_g · Dec 1, 2019

William Faulkner said:
MikeDale said:

Nice shots of the deer but correct me if I’m mistaken....isn’t this supposed to be for images taken with a Z7, Z6 or Z50.

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Quite correct. I mistakenly posted in the Z forum instead of the DXX forum. Can't seem to find a way to remove this though.

My apologies.

Bill F

Ahh.. they are still cool images that is what the site is about

JimKasson · Dec 1, 2019

shuncheung said:
This Staten Island is in the Central Valley in California, near Sacramento, not to be confused with the borough in New York City.

Nikon Z6 + 24-70mm/f4 S lens @ 70mm, f8, 0.5 sec, ISO 100, tripod

I'd like to see a lower-contrast version of this image.

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JNo · Dec 1, 2019

MikeDale · Dec 1, 2019

William Faulkner said:
MikeDale said:

Nice shots of the deer but correct me if I’m mistaken....isn’t this supposed to be for images taken with a Z7, Z6 or Z50.

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Quite correct. I mistakenly posted in the Z forum instead of the DXX forum. Can't seem to find a way to remove this though.

My apologies.

Bill F

No worries. Pretty much the same sensor as a Z7 after all.

S-Fitz · Dec 1, 2019

Hooray for VR, right? Nice shot. I like the evenly weighted midtones. Lovely expression of winter's prettier side.

shuncheung · Dec 1, 2019

JimKasson said:
shuncheung said:

This Staten Island is in the Central Valley in California, near Sacramento, not to be confused with the borough in New York City.

Nikon Z6 + 24-70mm/f4 S lens @ 70mm, f8, 0.5 sec, ISO 100, tripod

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I'd like to see a lower-contrast version of this image.

This is the original NEF file scaled down to 1200 pixels across, with no other editing. I captured this image on Black Friday, November 29, 2019 at 5:07pm, about 15 minutes after sunset. The colors around the horizon were quite intense, but the clouds were pretty thick so that the upper part of the sky was quite dark.

If I further reduce saturation in PhotoShop, I can get something like this:

maljo@inreach.com · Dec 1, 2019

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shuncheung · Dec 1, 2019

I have captured a lot of images of sandhill cranes at Statent Island, but I used my DSLRs so that they don't fit the theme for this thread.

Nikon DSLR with 500mm/f5.6 PF lens @ Statent Island

afloyas · Dec 1, 2019

JimKasson · Dec 1, 2019

shuncheung said:
JimKasson said:

shuncheung said:

This Staten Island is in the Central Valley in California, near Sacramento, not to be confused with the borough in New York City.

Nikon Z6 + 24-70mm/f4 S lens @ 70mm, f8, 0.5 sec, ISO 100, tripod

Click to expand...

I'd like to see a lower-contrast version of this image.

Click to expand...

This is the original NEF file scaled down to 1200 pixels across, with no other editing. I captured this image on Black Friday, November 29, 2019 at 5:07pm, about 15 minutes after sunset. The colors around the horizon were quite intense, but the clouds were pretty thick so that the upper part of the sky was quite dark.

If I further reduce saturation in PhotoShop, I can get something like this:

Still contrasty, but dull now. So that's not it.

If you send me a link to the raw, I'll take a crack at it and post settings.

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Photography meets digital computer technology. Photography wins -- most of the time.

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JimKasson · Dec 1, 2019

shuncheung said:
JimKasson said:

shuncheung said:

This Staten Island is in the Central Valley in California, near Sacramento, not to be confused with the borough in New York City.

Nikon Z6 + 24-70mm/f4 S lens @ 70mm, f8, 0.5 sec, ISO 100, tripod

Click to expand...

I'd like to see a lower-contrast version of this image.

Click to expand...

This is the original NEF file scaled down to 1200 pixels across, with no other editing. I captured this image on Black Friday, November 29, 2019 at 5:07pm, about 15 minutes after sunset. The colors around the horizon were quite intense, but the clouds were pretty thick so that the upper part of the sky was quite dark.

Thanks for the file. I couldn't do much with it; it is a very high-contrast scene. I think the only way to do what I wanted with it would be to use multi-shot HDR.

So I think you did a fine job with the development,.

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the last word the last word - Photography meets digital computer technology. Photography wins -- most of the time.

Photography meets digital computer technology. Photography wins -- most of the time.

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syberman7 · Dec 1, 2019

Bought 85S on Black Friday. It's an outstanding lens - sharp and nice bokeh too.

All wide open -

Last one - AF-C + AFF + eye detect

public_af_lobster · Dec 1, 2019

Lens trial

by a nose 2.8

an eye 3.2

shuncheung · Dec 2, 2019

JimKasson said:
Thanks for the file. I couldn't do much with it; it is a very high-contrast scene. I think the only way to do what I wanted with it would be to use multi-shot HDR.

So I think you did a fine job with the development,.

Jim, thanks for the attempt. Not sure what result you are after. I am happy enough with that image as the way it is, although I wish I had colors in the entire sky rather than just a narrower strip along the horizon. But that is a matter of nature, rather than photography and post processing.

draacor · Dec 2, 2019

Man it was cold. 30mph winds and what must have been 15 degrees out. Vision started to blur and I was only out for about ten minutes waiting for the sunset. But it was worth it. Sure do love the z7 and 14-30 combo.

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Thomas F · Dec 3, 2019

Z 50 with 50-250 DX at 160 mm, 160 ISO

JimKasson · Dec 3, 2019

draacor said:
Man it was cold. 30mph winds and what must have been 15 degrees out. Vision started to blur and I was only out for about ten minutes waiting for the sunset. But it was worth it. Sure do love the z7 and 14-30 combo.

Lovely.

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