#Sony A7RIV

[robfactory]

Texting in the Shade

[streetsofdublin]

I LIKE THIS POST BOX - HAVE A GOOD ST VALENTINE DAY

Throughout the centuries since Valentine received martyrdom there have been various basilicas, churches and monasteries built over the site of his grave

DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN VISIT THE SAINT HERE IN DUBLIN Throughout the centuries since Valentine received martyrdom there have been various basilicas, churches and monasteries built over the site of his grave. Therefore, over the years, many restorations and reconstructions took place at the site. In the early 1800’s, such work was taking place and the remains of Valentine were discovered along…

[fleshfotomedia]

“Dyke Bliss”

Valentines Day 2025

Sinners & Saints Bar

Washington , D.C

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[syame25]

GRACEFUL WATERS by Nenad Spasojevic Via Flickr: How often do you see it? I don’t go there very often but it’s always fun to go back. Buckingham Fountain, located in Grant Park, Chicago, is a grand and iconic landmark. This expansive Beaux-Arts-style fountain, constructed in 1927, is one of the largest in the world. At its center is a magnificent pink granite and bronze fountain adorned with four impressive seahorse sculptures symbolizing the states bordering Lake Michigan. The fountain's water shoots up to 150 feet in the air, creating a mesmerizing display. With its meticulously choreographed water shows accompanied by music and lights, Buckingham Fountain is a must-see attraction during the summer months. Set against the backdrop of the Chicago skyline, this picturesque plaza offers breathtaking views and serves as a focal point for various events and celebrations in the city. What are your thoughts on it?

[jmaninabox]

Test Shot Of The Sun. (480mm f/6.3 1/200 shutter + Solar ND)

[the-man-in-the-wind]

Grey and Green

Taken by: @the-man-in-the-wind

Sony A7Riv

Lensbaby Velvet 56mm F/2

[aaronjarnigan]

FK8 Honda Civic Type R on Volk TE47 wheels. // Shot on Sony A7RIV + Sigma Art 14-24 2.8

[deepdreamnights]

Crystal Caverns of Zu'leth

Do not steal the Crystals, not all of them are cursed, but enough are. Take only pictures and memories.

Actually, the memories are probably not a great idea.

On second thought, enjoy the pictures, don't go.

The image(s) above in this post were made using an autogenerated prompt and/or have not been modified/iterated extensively. As such, they do not meet the minimum expression threshold, and are in the public domain.

Prompt: a vast crystal cave covered in sapphire sculptures of monsters, colorful crystals, reflections and sparkles, light shining in from a hole in the ceiling, waterfall from the surface, strange creatures lurk throughout, light shining through, in a dark cave, rendered in octane, realistic, film grain, 35mm, 1600 ISO, Sony a7riv

[livefromphilly]

Sony RX100 VII Thoughts After Two Months

PROS:

Stacked sensors are the future. Well, technically the present considering that Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji, and OM Systems all use stacked sensors in their top of the line cameras. Either way, finally getting to experience shooting with one on a daily basis has made me want one in pretty much any camera going forward. The benefits are twofold: Not only do you get shutter speeds up to 20 frames per second, and without a mechanical shutter flipping in the way obscuring your view in between shots, but you also get no rolling shutter while doing it. Pretty much every Sony camera can shoot 10 fps bursts with the silent shutter, but any movement can give you a jello-like effect since the sensor reads out so slow on non-stacked cameras. The only con, at least on this camera, is that you can’t shoot flash at higher than 1/100 with the electronic shutter. That’s still plenty fast for a lot of stuff, but well below the 1/2000 you get when shooting the mechanical shutter. 

The fast frame rate wouldn’t make much of a difference if the camera was bad at autofocusing, but this camera is great at it. It has a lot of the same fancy focusing stuff that my full frame Sony has like human/animal eye autofocus and all the tracking modes I’m used to. It actually makes the camera pretty solid for wildlife if you can get close enough at the 200mm end. 

Speaking of that, the 24-200mm equivalent is a great range, and one that I missed a lot since I traded away my Tamron 28-200 to help cover the cost of my A7RIV. The small size and extra 4mm on the wide end actually makes it even more convenient than that Tamron. 

Aside from covering a broader range than the 24-70 equivalent lens from the older RX100 cameras, this lens also seems noticeably sharper. The last RX100 model I had, the Mk. IV, just didn’t seem as crispy as this lens is. 

It has a touchscreen! It’s wild to think that the previous RX100 cameras I owned didn’t have this basic ass feature, but Sony was very late in putting touch screens in their cameras. Ironically, I don’t really use it in this one because the AF is good enough that I can just do focus and recompose with tracking. 

CONS:

It’s still only a 1” style sensor so high ISO isn’t the cameras strong suit. Programs like DXO PureRAW help a lot and let you get somewhat usable images at ISO 6400 in a pinch, but you’re kinda pushing things at that point. 

While the lens is sharper and covers a wider range than the older models, it’s also significantly slower. At 24mm equivalent it’s already at f/2.8 where the old cameras were f/1.8. It’s f/3.2 at 25mm, f/3.5 at 33mm, and f/4 at 40mm. From 109mm to 200mm you’re at f/4.5. The relative slowness of the lens combined with the small sensor means that this can struggle getting quality images in low light without a tripod or something. 

No USB-C. My Fuji, Ricoh, and larger Sony all have USB-C charging, which is amazingly convenient when traveling. I haven’t really gone anywhere with this camera yet, but having to account for a micro USB cable is annoying since pretty much everything aside from my iPhone uses USB-C. 

It’s expensive. Just like my Mk III and Mk IV I got it used so it was cheaper than retail, but the copy I got cost about twice what I paid for the previous models. 

Start up time is just a tad bit slower than I’d like. The GRIII and X100V both beat it that regards, albeit those aren’t zoom lens so I have to cut the Sony some slack. 

SAMPLE PHOTOS: 

(The sample photos were edited in Lightroom Classic and DXO PureRAW2. Also, the sensor creates a roughly 2.7x crop factor, so the 9-72mm lens equates to 24-200ish)

Young Bird | ISO 160. 72mm. f/4.5. 1/200. 

Graffiti Shot from a Car | ISO 100. 33.98mm. f/4. 1/400.

Stickers | ISO 100. 29.67mm. f/4.5. 1/100.

City Hall | ISO 100. 38.13mm. f/4.5. 1/200. 

Flip Up Screen Selfie with My Friend Hanae | ISO 3200. 9mm. f/2.8. 1/40. 

Zoomed in Graffiti | ISO 640. 72mm. f/4.5. 1/500. 

Fishing Store Neon | ISO 800. 28.67mm. f/8. 1/200. 

Flowers | ISO 200. 72mm. f/5. 1/640.

Selfie Shots with My Sister | ISO 3200. 9mm. f/2.8. 1/100. 

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00568 by Levi Wedel Via Flickr: Sony A7RIV, Zeiss Loxia 35mm [NOT Acros 100] film profile v0.01

[robfactory]

Valencian Street Art. Walking around El Carme in Valencia and taking pics of the street art.

[fleshfotomedia]

Sinners & Saints Bar , Washington DC

Feb 1st , 2025

Happy Birthday Michael 🏆

[syame25]

DAWNSCAPES by Nenad Spasojevic Via Flickr: TGIF! Right? Going back to my images from Iowa. Love how at dawn, the city streets come alive with a gentle radiance. Soft morning light bathes the urban landscape, illuminating the Capitol building. As the city awakens, a sense of renewal always fills the air. What do you think?

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Creative Project - Plan

For my creative project, I plan to create a set of documentary portrait style images. These images will focus on young people in and around Glasgow and the central belt who are learners and speakers of Scottish Gaelic. I want to focus on young people who care about the language as it’s something that I am deeply passionate about due to attending multiple Gaelic medium education schools, and I think it’s important to highlight that the language is not just spoken by the older generations from the highlands and islands but is also spoken and being learned by some of the younger generations in the more urban areas of Scotland. This I believe is a very important topic to highlight as there is a lot of rhetoric being used around Gaelic being a “dying language” and I believe that doesn’t need to be the case. Gaelic was the native language spoken in this country for centuries before being all but wiped out by English colonialism, the language that is native to this region should be a strong part of our national identity here in Scotland.

The images I want to create for this brief would be shot as documentary environmental portraits, similar to the works of Alec Soth in his Sleeping by the Mississippi series 

and Sophie Gerrard in her series Sweet Sixteen.

 These images would have hard focus on the subjects with enough detail in their surroundings to give you an insight into them as a person. This I think would highlight the fact that the Gaelic language is important to a wide range of people in Glasgow and the surrounding areas. I think the best locations to shoot this would be the local areas of the participants as this would give a visual queue to the spread of the language or the places that they use Gaelic most frequently as this would show the variety of use cases these people have found for the language. 

To shoot this project, the use of the colleges Fuji medium format camera would be beneficial in my opinion. It would allow me to get the depth of field that I am looking for because medium format has faster fall off in focus than a standard full frame camera as well as a very high resolution file that would be good for printing the final work. However, if that is not available, I will use my personal Sony A7Riv full frame camera with an f2.8 aperture zoom lens, as this would be a reasonable substitute for the resolution and separation that I would get with the Fuji. I also think that this project would work very well on film, as film stocks like portra160 and 400 have very appealing tones that suit portraits like the ones I plan to take. If I were to also shoot this on film, I would use my 35mm Canon EOS 500n as that camera has very good metering as well as the ability to use modern lenses with reliable autofocus. I have a 50mm f1.8 prime that would give me the depth of field that I want as well as the sharpness. The film would be developed by Gulabi Photo because I trust the results of their lab, however I would most likely rescan the images at the college to get higher resolution files for printing because I think that Gulabis standard scans are lacking somewhat in that area. 

I would like to shoot it on medium format film, however I don’t have any experience or equipment for that format so I would be less confident in the outcome if I were to borrow the gear. It may be worth exploring if I am not able to use the college’s digital medium format camera as the medium format look is more akin to the result that I want in these images.

Gaelic is a language that is very personal to a lot of the learners and speakers who use it today - because of this the project would have more depth to it if I included some of the participants’ feelings about how the learning or speaking the language is important to them. To find participants, there are a few methods I’ve thought of that would be good to find people who would be interested in sitting for this project. The first one that I have already tried is posting on the Scottish Gaelic Subreddit asking for volunteers. So far I have one person who has agreed to do it for me as well as apotential second that he referred. The other idea I have is to get in contact with a couple Gaelic groups that have meetings and events in Glasgow.  Comunn Oiseanach Oilthigh Ghlaschu is a student society for Gaelic at The University of Glasgow.

I think that If I got in contact with the person who runs the group, they could find me some more volunteers. There is also An Lòchran, a charity that promotes Gaelic language and culture in Glasgow.

They hold meetups and events for Gaelic speakers and have a shop in Partick. I think that getting some portraits of their members would be very good for the project.

I have had the idea for this project for a while now and I think that this is the perfect opportunity to start it, it is a very different style for me and my first branch into photojournalism. The project could end up spanning years as I think there are a lot of ways the project could shift and expand but I think that getting just a few different portraits is a good place to start with it. Because this project is one that I plan to continue for a longer period, I have not fully settled on its final presentation. However, I think that something like a small e-zine would be perfect to showcase the work in progress towards the deadline as it is less definitive than a printed series 

[the-man-in-the-wind]

Rose of Sharon

Taken by: @the-man-in-the-wind

Sony A7Riv

Lensbaby Velvet 56mm f1.8