Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I?m still cringing at the appearance of ?sewage outlet? in the same caption with ?kite surfing at? and ?close to swimming area"? ?howard > On Oct 12, 2020, at 10:13 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > wrote: > > That's an impressive shot, Douglas. > > On 10/12/20 8:25 AM, Douglas Barry wrote: >> I've been up to my eyes fighting a local planning aberration - hence my >> lacklustre recent photography - but had to take my camera to do something >> in relation to the appeal. >> >> Because of a slight access difficulty, I decided to use one of my Pentax >> lens collection - the M series 2.8/120 on a Fotodiox adaptor. The lens >> seemed to work well enough on my various film Pentaxes, but I'm not too >> sure about it on the Sony. Maybe I'll have to upscale the adaptor >> quality? Thoughts? I'm also not excited by the Fotodiox on my Leica >> lenses. >> >> This is virtually the same size as it came out of the camera, but tilted >> .05 to level the horizon and minimally cropped to lose the blank bits. >> The image also had auto light levels applied, additional colour >> saturation boost of 8 and was sharpened to 41 all in PSE, as it certainly >> didn't look great straight out of the camera. >> >> Kite surfing etc. taken at sewage outlet at West Pier, Dun Laoghaire, Co. >> Dublin close to Seapoint swimming area. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/CoVid-19/Kite+Surfing+Dublin+Bay+1+10_10_20.jpg.html >> >> >> Sony A7II and Pentax-M 120/2.8 glass. Shot at either f8 or f11 1/1600s at >> ISO 320. Detail can be seen at larger size. >> >> Douglas >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > -- > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information