***This week with your a7x/a9x/a1, Sep 2nd - 8th, 2023***

Derek Dean said:

As always, spectacular captures and excellent processing.

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Sundre said:

A74Me said:

Derek Dean said:

Back in the day I used to shoot wedding videos, man, what a stressful job. Now that I'm semi-retired, I simply drive the groups out to the wedding site in a bus and then to the reception.

It's much more relaxed, but I still can't help but grab a shot here and there, especially when the wedding is being held in such a unique location.

Point Pinos LIghthouse is the oldest continuous operating lighthouse on the west coast, located on the very tip of the Monterey Peninsula. Earlier today it was overcast and sprinkling a bit, but right before the ceremony the sun broke through into the most glorious day you can imagine.

You can see the two photographers they hired, one shooting video and one taking stills, but to be honest, I think I got the best shot : )

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it amazes me how pro photographers can actually see and compose the subject in the rear LCD. at very least i use a 7 inch hi nit field monitor.

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I use the rear LCD most of the time. It's not ideal, but running around a festival or a theatre stage with an external monitor would be even less ideal. I almost never photograph in broad daylight though, virtually always in low light conditions.

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A74Me said:

Sundre said:

A74Me said:

Derek Dean said:

Back in the day I used to shoot wedding videos, man, what a stressful job. Now that I'm semi-retired, I simply drive the groups out to the wedding site in a bus and then to the reception.

It's much more relaxed, but I still can't help but grab a shot here and there, especially when the wedding is being held in such a unique location.

Point Pinos LIghthouse is the oldest continuous operating lighthouse on the west coast, located on the very tip of the Monterey Peninsula. Earlier today it was overcast and sprinkling a bit, but right before the ceremony the sun broke through into the most glorious day you can imagine.

You can see the two photographers they hired, one shooting video and one taking stills, but to be honest, I think I got the best shot : )

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it amazes me how pro photographers can actually see and compose the subject in the rear LCD. at very least i use a 7 inch hi nit field monitor.

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I use the rear LCD most of the time. It's not ideal, but running around a festival or a theatre stage with an external monitor would be even less ideal. I almost never photograph in broad daylight though, virtually always in low light conditions.

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in a theatre i use the rear lcd, but direct sunlight like in the image posted it would be a guess at best confirming focus with a 1.8 lens. the a74 has amazing af but i still like to know what face it has picked up. the other day i had to turn face af off for that very reason as i wanted to shoot a couple red carpet walking under a street light at night while there were crowds in the background, the camera kept locking on to the crowds faces instead of the subjects.

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Sundre said:

A74Me said:

Sundre said:

A74Me said:

Derek Dean said:

Back in the day I used to shoot wedding videos, man, what a stressful job. Now that I'm semi-retired, I simply drive the groups out to the wedding site in a bus and then to the reception.

It's much more relaxed, but I still can't help but grab a shot here and there, especially when the wedding is being held in such a unique location.

Point Pinos LIghthouse is the oldest continuous operating lighthouse on the west coast, located on the very tip of the Monterey Peninsula. Earlier today it was overcast and sprinkling a bit, but right before the ceremony the sun broke through into the most glorious day you can imagine.

You can see the two photographers they hired, one shooting video and one taking stills, but to be honest, I think I got the best shot : )

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it amazes me how pro photographers can actually see and compose the subject in the rear LCD. at very least i use a 7 inch hi nit field monitor.

Click to expand...

I use the rear LCD most of the time. It's not ideal, but running around a festival or a theatre stage with an external monitor would be even less ideal. I almost never photograph in broad daylight though, virtually always in low light conditions.

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in a theatre i use the rear lcd, but direct sunlight like in the image posted it would be a guess at best confirming focus with a 1.8 lens. the a74 has amazing af but i still like to know what face it has picked up. the other day i had to turn face af off for that very reason as i wanted to shoot a couple red carpet walking under a street light at night while there were crowds in the background, the camera kept locking on to the crowds faces instead of the subjects.

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I have programmed the AF-ON button on my A9 to switch Eye AF on/off for that very reason. Sometimes you don't want to focus on eyes/faces.

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A74Me said:

Nice mate, i know exactly what you mean PP hundreds of images from a shoot, it does get boring after a while. i have actions set up for the mass edits but still gets very tedious. i have given up on shooting full dress rehearsals for money ,i just shoot them for advertising now and edit at most 30 images out of 3000

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Sundre said:

A74Me said:

Nice mate, i know exactly what you mean PP hundreds of images from a shoot, it does get boring after a while. i have actions set up for the mass edits but still gets very tedious. i have given up on shooting full dress rehearsals for money ,i just shoot them for advertising now and edit at most 30 images out of 3000

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Thanks! Yeah I'm training ImagenAI to learn my editing style so that it can do my batch editing for me. It needs a lot of data and I want to first make sure I'm happy with the edits I use for training data, so going to take a while... Hoping to have it fully set up later this year.

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