But the way, the shot you commented on has motion in it, and that's not HDR friendly.

No motion in the shots. You "mirror-less" people always see motion [I debated for a long time whether to get a comparable but slightly more expansive Canon instead of the one I ended up getting but the only real advantage I could see from mirror less was less/no vibration, and it would have required an adapter to use my existing EFS lenses and if it is one thing I hate in life, it is adapting. Those shots were taken with fixed lighting, on a sturdy copy stand with a lightboard under and with multiple shot bracketing. There is no motion, except from the camera operation which I am denying exists.

 

Ray, can you post a pic of the other side of the coin?

The angel is the obverse the multiple eagles are the reverse - it is a commemorative onza. Your country has an S-load of silver and has been minting beautiful coins for centuries. Silver is a great conductor, but, as anyone who has taken an eraser to a TRS-80 Model I edge connector knows, it also, when pure, is a tarnish machine. In numismatics, "tarnish" on silver is the patina and should never be cleaned - sometimes it is quite pretty.

 

No motion in the shots. You "mirror-less" people always see motion [I debated for a long time whether to get a comparable but slightly more expansive Canon instead of the one I ended up getting but the only real advantage I could see from mirror less was less/no vibration, and it would have required an adapter to use my existing EFS lenses and if it is one thing I hate in life, it is adapting. Those shots were taken with fixed lighting, on a sturdy copy stand with a lightboard under and with multiple shot bracketing. There is no motion, except from the camera operation which I am denying exists.

I meant the one of the river...

I shoot cameras with big floppy mirrors in them, personally. I like optical viewfinders. Though I am almost certainly going to get a Canon R, eventually. But right now, FF and APS-C pro and prosumer bodies. And big heavy Manfrotto tripods to hold them still for me.

 

And, and I have live view if I want to go "mirrorless", or mirror lockup.

My long exposure shots with ND filters can take as much as 20 minutes.

 

Another photo...

7DM2 | EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM +2x III | 1/1000s f/5.6 ISO 100 140mm (238mm 1.7 CF)

Seagull in flight.

 

I meant the one of the river...

Ahh, ok, I misunderstood and yes, I read about the problem of motion when going through this tutorial https://www.photo.net/learn/hdr-in-adobe-photoshop-cs5/ (which I recommend if anyone wants to play with HDR using CS5).

And, and I have live view if I want to go "mirrorless", or mirror lockup.

I love live-view. I even love the touch screen and never thought I would use it. I try hard not to buy way over my skill level. I figure it takes a couple of years for me to get to the level of the camera...and then add a couple of years, because everything takes longer than I think.

Also, I realize that nobody needs to get into all the digital photography details. There are so many splendid pictures in this thread, and many are taken on phone cameras (which can be quite good) and by people just enjoying themselves. Still, I understand much of what you are saying and I enjoy it - it is, after all, electronics.

One problem that I *sometimes* have is being hypercritical of my own shots...I can always find something that could have been done better. Case in point is this one:



I must have shot that 100 times and finally, I was moderately pleased (or just fatigued) to get the softness and no glare that I was after.

 

It's a nice shot. Good work.

I couldn't resist a little post processing... Not a comment on the photo, more like a little tribute.

[EDITED! I'd forgotten to apply a sharpening mask. Oops]

 

@cmartinez if the tech talk is not in the spirit of this thread, we could start another. I don't know if it is welcome or not, please let me know.

 

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Sharpened? Messed with the color histograms? Post-processing is the devil. J/K

 

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Sharpened? Messed with the color histograms? Post-processing is the devil. J/K

A little sharpening, a little noise reduction, some light tweaking. For the screen, because things just don't look natural when they look natural. And the peppers were shouting, "we're colorful"

 

@cmartinez if the tech talk is not in the spirit of this thread, we could start another. I don't know if it is welcome or not, please let me know.

He is usually pretty tolerant, but to get back on track, here is a slightly different one.



She has an unusual, but beautiful, MonaLisa-esq smile. I liked it so much that I shot it, printed it and framed it. It is actually from a Czech bank note.

 

Some people like this one because it makes them salivate (which is what I was going for).

 

Here's one for you. It's with the EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro on the 5DM4

 

Here's one for you. It's with the EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro on the 5DM4

Nice. I enjoy macro photography the most. You can do nice Eyeball-benders and Whatisit shots for fun. I have a bunch of them around somewhere. I dug up a few and tried them here (somewhere in this thread) a while ago, but @bertus got them all right away. I thought that he got one wrong but I think he was just using a British term. I actually thought the CdS cell would have fooled people - it did not.

 

@cmartinez if the tech talk is not in the spirit of this thread, we could start another. I don't know if it is welcome or not, please let me know.

By all means, please do carry on. It's not only perfectly within subject, but I'm also learning lots of things.

 

Wife took this one with her Samsung S9. I love th lizard's skin texture:

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And here's another one. Her sense of time and place never ceases to amaze me.

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Telephoto, 630mm

 

We have quite a few turtles in the river.