First medium format shoot of the year tomorrow (I hope - the band arenāt exactly communicative)
I bloody love my Bronica. This is with no edits, no sharpening, no colour work, not even a crop, straight off the scanner (before even the band have seen it)
One of the best photographers in the U.K IMHO said some photos I took were beautiful and I canāt stand up
and tell us who the photographer was!
edit - that makes it sound like I was suggesting that you didnāt take your photos. Which wasnāt my intention. I meant who it was that said your pics were beautiful.
Iāll hopefully have a zine of stuff sorted in the next few months. Will put a few pictures here then and iāll send any out if anyone wants any.
It was a sunday shoot for me this weekend, which meant that the local developers werenāt open - Iāll be picking up my film on Thursday. It was a bit blowy, and the singer from the band I shot had long straight blonde hair. I took a few shots which embraced the windiness, so hopefully theyāll look cool and not that I just was snapping regardless of the conditions.
Anyone shoot on a Sony? Specificially Sony A7S ii?
Can I use manual focus in auto mode? Just donāt have time to reacquaint myself with photography before a shoot (got so used to just taking my phone out instead and/or just doing daylight shots of buildings in good light) and the auto on this is REALLY good, so it suits my tight timeframe and I feel happy I can just rely on the camera to do a lot of the work. But having some issues with focus and those C1/C2 buttons are confusing me (coming from a film photography background anyway, digital terrifies me).
So C1 is critical focus and I can use that to override in auto?
TL;DR
I donāt shoot Sony, but theyāre renowned for being able to mount non Sony lenses, and all other systems have a manual / auto focus switch on the lens themselves, so Iām fairly sure that would be the case with Sony lenses too.
More here, from people who know: How to use the AF/MF on sony lens? Can switch it and use either MF or AF regardless camera setting?: Sony Alpha Full Frame E-mount Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review
Itās such a great camera (unsurprisingly given the price of it).
Thanks for the link
I was wondering what youād used for your water shots.
I had a Casio underwater digital about ten years ago but it was terrible. These days I have a sealed bag (not quite a hard case) that I put my Canon G9X digital compact in, and Iāve got a Canon A1Sureshot underwater film camera too.
Yeah, my mate Finn (who runs Brighton Photography Gallery) started off with an Olympus Tough for his water stuff and only upgraded because he wanted something with more mega pixels so he could print big enough to go on the walls of the gallery.
As with anything, itās as much about how you use the light and post processing as the camera itself.
Visited Vila Tugendhat here in Brno today. Stunning place, photos do not do it justice at all. The detail and the concepts are something else. And the lighting, my word
Thatās nice. You could work for a magazine with photos like that.
Iāve become rubbish at focussing. also cause Iām a semi tall boy and I donāt want to take
Photos where people look mini I have to do a Theresa May curtesy and I become wobbly. I donāt like tripods though. Hmm.
haha thanks but thatās crazy talk. it is one of the most photogenic places Iāve been to!
I tried out some double exposures at the marathon at the weekend, using my big medium format. I wasnāt too convinced but my sitter half looked at the two I processed and raves about them, so
Thereās a colour one on Instagram too
Itās bluebell / rapeseed season in Sussex at the moment, which means time to point my 135 f2 at things other than bands:
What was that shot with @stickboy? Iām guessing something you could control the exposure with given that your whites are crisp (which would probably show up overexposed on a histogram)