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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: luxborealis on July 05, 2016, 11:38:23 pm

Title: Coneflowers in harsh light
Post by: luxborealis on July 05, 2016, 11:38:23 pm

This is in addition to Bob's post from yesterday.

10:45am on a bright blue sky day - not ideal for photography, but by isolating one flower (or a few), backlit against a natural field background, harsh light can work.

Sony RX10iii 600mm (35mm equiv - for you, Eric), ƒ5.6 @ 1/160 ISO 100 0 EV w/ polarizing filter; raw file processed in LR.

The long reach of the RX10iii is not just handy to have, but as sharp as any other focal length. The bokeh is, well, the jury is still out on it.

Title: Re: Coneflowers in harsh light
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on July 06, 2016, 03:59:06 am

Nice.

Title: Re: Coneflowers in harsh light
Post by: RMW on July 08, 2016, 07:43:35 am

Very faithful rendering. I like it a lot.
Can you say a little more about the bokeh.
Thank you Terry.
Richard

Title: Re: Coneflowers in harsh light
Post by: luxborealis on July 08, 2016, 12:09:24 pm

Quote from: RMW on July 08, 2016, 07:43:35 am

Very faithful rendering. I like it a lot.
Can you say a little more about the bokeh.
Thank you Terry.
Richard

To me, the bokeh is appropriately soft for f/5.6 and a 220mm (600mm in 35 terms) lens, but I find the out of focus bits have a bit of an "edge". I notice this on the background stems. It's not deal-breaking and perhaps only noticeable once it's pointed out, but noticeable to me.

Title: Re: Coneflowers in harsh light
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on July 08, 2016, 03:13:32 pm

Nice, Terry.

You could perhaps "repair" the bokeh by spending an hour or two blurring those edges.

-Eric

P.S. Would you like to trade your RX10iii for my "classic" RX10i, which is a bit lighter than yours?  I'll even throw in a couple of memory cards.   ;D