The better side: Springtime with my Sigma camera! ...

I own a good old SD1 M, and I'm still not only very happy with the pictures I can make with it, but also that it's color and detail rendering is still unsurpassed. Why not gathering some springtime pictures here in that thread?

Springtime in Alsace, France. Enjoy!

Flowering shrub next to the trail. Even a flying bee can be detected...

Flowering blackthorn in very old vineyards

Abandoned tractor in a garden with old apple trees

Wide landscape, broken old tree with mistletoes

Amadeus21 wrote:

Abandoned tractor in a garden with old apple trees

In spite of the Merrill's poor quality top layer and the low-sensitivity bottom layer ...

... all fixed automatically by SPP.

... And on we go

Today my wife and I took a hike in order to look for pasqueflowers (Pulsatilla vulgaris) in a certain area, where a geological lime floe and nutrient-poor grassland meet. There are also vineyards, where white vine is grown, which lasts easily 70 years. The whole area is some mixture of nature reserve and vineyards.

Blossoming wild cherry tree in the vine yards

Cherry branch with bee

Pulsatilla vulgaris

There also can be found a lot of historical and modern artefacts. In the middle ages there where already tedious farming and there are walls and ruins of gone buildings.

Abandoned hut with grafitto.

Best wishes

One sign that spring is here in my part of the world is construction and renovation, haha. I took this quick shot on my usual walk around town as I liked the details and knew the DP1M was up to the task.

These are good. Please post more!

Thank you for your picture! I do like the specific colours in that very "lively" picture very much. And it has the popping "3D", which I regard as specific for Foveon pictures.

Very nice picture, in which there is a lot to be seen and to discover up to the buds at the branches of the trees ...

Thank you and you're right. I've been peeping at the buds on a daily basis, haha. We're having another cold snap but it's the last gasp of a long winter...

And same to you re. the images; those signature Foveon realistic colors are a delight to see in your springtime images. The abandoned hut is especially interesting, with the colors from the art and the details in the twigs.

Lovely set of pictures, Johannes. Beautiful countryside.

There's still something special about the Merrill.

Don

In that thread everyone is welcome to show how nice and brilliant pictures can be taken with Sigma cameras. I do this with my good old SD1 Merrill.

These pictures are from springtime, too, but from the past years. In centre Europe all is small and narrow; there is no distant "View to the Kilimandscharo" or Mt. Mckinley, but nevertheless winter and spring time can exist side by side. This picture reminds me of verses of the poem "The Easter Walk" in "Faust" from J.W. Goethe:

» From the ice they are freed, the stream and brook,
By the Spring’s enlivening, lovely look;
The valley’s green with joys of hope;
The Winter old and weak ascends
Back to the rugged mountain slope.

From there, as he flees, he downward sends
An impotent shower of icy hail
Streaking over the verdant vale. «

View from the Vallée de Thur to Markstein mountains (Alsace, France).

That picture I do also love very much. The yellow colour of the plants (Hieraticum *not* dandelions) was rather difficult to perserve in SPP.

Impression of mountain pasture at springtime

Some weeks later, I took a picture not very far from the place of first picture - but down from the mountains to the valley. It's my opinion, that with no one of all my other camera systems I could have taken such a "popping 3D" picture. Although the picture is not "final tack sharp" (handheld) and there is little haze in the air, the image has incredible depth. All the buildings, trees, cars and trucks look like in a diorama picture.

Dans la vallée de la thur

(The rectangular structure in the middle of the pic is the graveyard of that village.)

That yard you may detect at once at the following picture, which is definitely not taken at springtime I happen to find it, as I was looking for the first one.

Be happy with your pictures and your brilliant Foveon camera!
Johannes

Same scene after fresh snow

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The English name for the Hieracium flowers is Hawkweeds. I agree the yellow is difficult to get right -- a program with HSV sliders helps.

The free program "Michael Vinther's Image Analyzer" has a nice version done as a colour circle. (Menu item "Color Tone Adjustment").

I suspect that the filter in the camera doesn't completely cut out Infra-Red. Look at the spectra here

http://www.reflectance.co.uk//simplesearch.php?search=hieracium

(Scroll down in a data window to see a curve).

Although the spectra shown cover only the visible, the curve is heading off toward the IR with no sign of dropping off.

Don

D Cox wrote:

The English name for the Hieracium flowers is Hawkweeds. I agree the yellow is difficult to get right -- a program with HSV sliders helps.

The free program "Michael Vinther's Image Analyzer" has a nice version done as a colour circle. (Menu item "Color Tone Adjustment").

I suspect that the filter in the camera doesn't completely cut out Infra-Red. Look at the spectra here

http://www.reflectance.co.uk//simplesearch.php?search=hieracium

(Scroll down in a data window to see a curve).

Although the spectra shown cover only the visible, the curve is heading off toward the IR with no sign of dropping off.

Don

Thanks for the link - I had misplaced the URL for that site.

Enjoy!

Hello lerryj

your picts are pretty much impressive! Some are downsized, I think. You also have (had) several Sigma cameras, including SD15 and a SD1M. Just like me, starting with SD9 but I stopped with the SD1M and since that time waiting for the next 1:1:1 Foveon
One of the flowers are taken with ISO 200, ƒ/8 @ 1/800 sec and with 105mm. This can be done only with flash, I think? I never dealt with flash/artificially lighting.

Thanks for the picts!