Sigma SD14, 120-300 @ 2.8 1/500 ISO50 (hand held)
The 120-300 is a classy lens, here I’m trying hard (especially the second shot) to shoot it against the 50-500 and I might add it was a bit tricky as the wind was blowing and I could feel how much movement I was making. Now, these shots are both ISO50 and both wide open at 2,8! Quite a bit faster than the 50-500 can do. Also, colors came out quite different compared to the 50-500 shot. Now, I used two different SD14s and they have a little bit different coloristic, and I’m not sure how much is down to the lens, camera or work in SPP.
Continue reading ‘Sigma 120-300 shot Linn @ 2.8!!’
Amazing lens, so clear and crisp results. These are all ISO50 and of course still using the SD14.. Sigma Photo pro 4 might not be the very best at everything but with lower ISO, it’s king! Also notice the danger of using ISO50 on birch trees with their light white parts. I should have been more careful but I thought I could save some but no no. Still cool I think. :)
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And us, the people. :) I’m hiding behind the 17-70 OS.
Went to the famous Hornborgarsjön today, it’s famous because every year tens of thousands of Common Cranes come here to play and so do tourists. And me. The lake is located about 100km from where I live so it’s a bit stupid that I don’t go there more often. It’s such a nice place for the 100-300 to play. Perhaps the SD15 plus 50-500 OS would be even better?
I made them BW because it’s so nice, colors looks perfectly ok too but.. and these are all SPP 4, which actually, believe it or not makes pretty nice BW’s from ISO400 and below. (not above). I had to underexpose some in order to get decent speed, light was so so.. So BW’s the way to go. Might show you color version another time.
Oh, and do you know what’s so cute about these birds? Once they found their mate, they stick together! :)
Above: Cropped image.
Another way to crop the above shot. :)
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Happy New Year 2010!! Well, I’m late, I know. But I just came back from celebrating the new year up at my big sisters place in Brålanda. It’s so far away from everything and Internet hasn’t reached them just yet.. (not). I’m not too often up at her place, it’s a 100km drive (that’s the only good excuse I have not to go there more often and I know she reads this)..
Ah, and you might wonder why I have no splendid pictures of cool firecrackers – Well, it all comes down to luck and really, really bad timing. In Brålanda (a small town of what seams to me to be around 10 people) people have firecrackers but they all live randomly around my tripods position and none of them had ANY understanding of photography or photographers. They could have said: – I’ll let another rocket up right now, and I’ll wait for your signal Carl. But no, they just let them up a little here and there and always in the wrong direction from where I stood with my 20-30s exposure.
Oh well, there is always another one coming!
Now, all these shots has been taken with my Sigma SD14 – some of them using the 120-300 and others using a new lens that I will get back to in a while. (all wider shots). 90% has been developed using SPP with minor adjustments using LR3 before flickry upload. The rest (two shots) has been developed using Silkypix.
Flickr gallery with all shots in full size.
(All above shots except the bird has been shot using the other lens..)
Now, the new year started with lots and lots of snow. We had to stay one extra day because of it. Below you’ll find “extra day with snow and my sisters family”, pictures.
Continue reading ‘One week Winter.. 2009/10′
Just wanted to share two late shots taken during the session that you saw previously and they’re both taken with the Sigma 120-300 at ISO50 and SD14. It was a VERY bright sunny day so stayed in the shadows under some huge trees – Tried to equal the light so that my elinchrom quadra wouldn’t be too noticed, used a white umbrella and without a meeter I had to test shoot some before setting the correct power and exposure. But I never really used a light meter before so I’m not sure it would make things faster. As long as my assistant was staying on the same distance exposure would stay about the same. My biggest problem was that clouds would come and go, so light would change LOTS in a couple of seconds – and so would exposure. Lots of shots trashed because of this.
Raw Developer used for these. :)
Some of the exposures from the other day (very cold day I might add). These are all taken with the wonderful Sigma 120-300 2.8 lens and although it’s a bit on the heavy side it’s so much fun. I should definitely take more walks with it. All images has been processed using Sigma Photo Pro and later post processed using PS, reality is sometimes boring. :)
All images available on flickr in full size.
Published in 12-24,
120-300,
30mm 1.4,
50mm 1.4,
Apple Aperture,
Full size,
ISO50,
Polarizer / Filter,
Portraits,
Raw Developer,
Sigma DP1,
Sigma Photo Pro,
Sigma SD14 and
Wedding sessions .
Trying out the new Lightroom 2.1, these shots were taken with SD14 + 120-300 and 50mm 1.4. (Sigmas). I did add lots of vignetting, so don’t blame sigma. ;) I’m not satisfied with Lightrooms way of handling the RAW Foveon data BUT I’m VERY happy with Adobes approach with DP1 images. In their latest RAW update for Photoshop and Lightroom there is support and it’s more vibrant and better color separation than Sigmas photo pro. I’ll do some more tests and share later.
I think I’ll redevelop these and see what they could look like using SPP 3.2 + Aperture. Just for fun! :D
and some other from the same occasion..
120-300. Sigma Photo Pro.
Alright – with my new Mac I had to get started! These are produced with the help of Sigma Photo Pro 3.2 (color shots) and Raw Developer 1.8 (black and white shot). All pictures ends up as 16bit tiffs in Aperture. From aperture I add some final adjustments – sometimes with the help of Viveza and sometimes with a little bit of vignetting etc – it’s mostly for the easy upload to flickr and possibility to add my signature without hazel.
Look, it’s me!! :D 12-24, cokin, SPP + aperture. Sky enhanced with Viveza.
120-300. Sigma Photo Pro. Too warm? Version two.
12-24. Sigma Photo Pro. Cokin filter. (ND Grad)
12-24. Raw Developer 1.8.
All pictures are available as full size shots. Just click each picture.
Published in 12-24,
120-300,
16.5mm,
30mm 1.4,
4.5mm fisheye,
50mm 1.4,
70-200,
70mm,
All,
High ISO/ASA (400+),
ISO50,
Portraits,
Sigma DP1,
Sigma Photo Pro,
Sigma SD14 and
Wedding sessions .
Published in 10-20,
120-300,
16.5mm,
30mm 1.4,
70-200,
70mm,
Full size,
Portraits,
Sigma DP1,
Sigma Photo Pro,
Sigma SD14 and
Studio .
Finally after much wait – here is the first of two parts from a photo session I had for the second year somewhere in the wilderness of Sweden. Now, these shots are not meant to be examined deeply – much because some of them are not extremely in focus. (I left the camera sometimes on a tripod having just a trigger in my hand and therefor they could walk out of focus).
I alternated between three different PS plugins to get the look that I wanted or simply to blow out the white background. The ones used most (for white background) is Viveza, the secondly most used is AlienSkin Exposure and the third used for one or two shots is Nik Color Efex Pro.
All shots are here presented in full resolution. Two shots have been slightly cropped. The rest have been left as is.
Click each for full size view. Enjoy!
Yes, it’s me (above and below).
There is more to come.
Click below for some more from this very session.
Continue reading ‘Crazy studio session, SD14 + DP1 | Part 1′
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