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Our Floral Challenge Winner: Beauty Close to Home
alpha-jessica-a posted a topic in Photography,
Derek Patteson, also known as @degrees.kaptured on social media, is a photographer based in the countryside of West Texas. Due to his location, he tends to focus his photography on nature, animals, and small town life. He is currently an amateur photographer, fitting in his passion alongside his full time job. His goal is to one day become a professional photographer. Derek shared this stunning shot in our recent floral Challenge and we immediately wanted to learn more about the story behind the image! Keep reading to hear Derek’s perspective.
The Dew Rose photo was taken on our small homestead. It is a rose bush that my wife has in her garden. It had rained that night. After waking up, I made some coffee, grabbed my camera and headed outside to see what I could capture. Most things were still covered with dew from the rain. I took multiple pictures of different flowers, plants, and insects that morning. But that rose picture is definitely the stand out photo of them all.
I took the photo with my at the time brand new Sony Alpha 7IV. I upgraded from a Sony A6000 and I chose the Sony Alpha 7IV because I didn't feel I needed the 61 megapixels of the Sony Alpha 7RIV and 33 megapixels is a good middle ground to me. I had a 30mm lens paired with my camera. I selected a lens with a short focusing distance and an aperture that would give me the creamy background I love.
This shot was not planned, I didn't spray the rose to make it more "dewy", I went out not expecting much but ended up getting a great photo of a rose. Although the lens is a 30mm I was in crop mode so it was a 45mm equivalent. I was at f/3.2 because I wanted to get all the petals and water droplets in focus while still having that nicely blurred background. My shutter was at 1/250s and my ISO was at 400.
I used Adobe Lightroom mobile to edit the photo to post to my Instagram. I started with a preset called Yo That's Pretty Moody from North Borders and tweaked the exposure, contrast, and colors to get my final result. You can see a short video of the process below.
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Thanks so much Derek for getting involved in one of our photo challenges.
Make sure to check out our other current photo challenges and share your work!- 1 reply
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Sony Alpha Universe Presents a Week-Long Takeover with Nicole Zelkowitz!
alpha-jessica-a posted a topic in Photography,
Nicole Zelkowitz (@avecnicole) is a travel, adventure, and lifestyle photographer. She uses her images to encourage others to leave the comfort of their homes and travel to their dream destinations. She is highly skilled at creating unique images that give a sense of place and tell a story.
It’s our pleasure to announce that Nicole will be participating in a text based Forum Takeover from September 16th to September 20th!
If you’d like to ask a question, post it in this thread and Nicole will answer it during her takeover.
You’ll have a week to chat with and learn from Nicole. The takeover will also be saved and available to view after the week ends!- 5 replies
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Best shot this year so far
Wojtsobi posted a topic in Photography,
I've always wanted to get a shot like this with bird in flight on a stunning sunrise scenery and here it is - whats yours? 🙂- 3 replies
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Recently, I went through some of the same focal length envy recently myself. I have a 100-400mm GM which is an awesome lens, but sometimes I want some extra reach. I don't have a 70-200mm so if I moved to a 200-600mm I'd lose the 100mm-200mm range which I don't want to do. Instead, I settled on the 2X teleconverter. It gives me a 200-800mm which I can quickly convert back to 100-400 by taking off the teleconverter. There's always a tradeoff and the maximum aperture is reduced with the teleconverter, but because I don't need the extra reach all that often, it's an easy tradeoff for me to make. IMO, switching to an MFT system for extra reach is a bit of an illusion. The smaller sensor's "crop factor" makes it appear that you get extra focal length, but it's really just the proportion of the frame vis a vis the subject that changes. Personally, I prefer a high-resolution, full-frame sensor that I have the option to crop to something like an MFT size if necessary. Cameras like the A7R V and A7CR are incredibly versatile in this regard.
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This is an interesting topic. Innovation is where the path forward takes a radical course change and progress makes a giant leap ahead. I don't disagree with you about the A6000 being a massive leap forward. It's a little like the Bell X-1, the plane that Chuck Yeager flew to break the sound barrier in 1947. The supersonic planes that have come after the X-1 have long since outpaced its capabilities, but the X-1 was the plane that opened the door to all of the massive advancements that followed. One thing I think Sony continues to do extremely well is to look to the future rather than cling to the past. I've been in this industry long enough to remember when reps from other companies publicly and privately dismissed mirrorless. As Schopenhauer said (yes, I am brining a 19th century philosopher into a discussion about cameras), "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." I don't have my A6000 anymore, but I I recently got an Alpha 7CR. It's a very different camera starting with being full-frame, but like an F-16 shares DNA with the Bell X-1, the A7CR's lineage can be traced back to the A6000.
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Bought an A7CR with a 50mm GM 1.4. Camera is in full auto and AF settings are out-of-the-box. I am shocked by these results. Can anyone help. Thank you.
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