The Official Head-Case Photography Thread.

[jpelg]

15 hours ago, blessingx said:

I really wish there was a new Leica WATE/MATE-ish lens made by someone. 

^This!

[Knuckledragger]

Counterpoint to my paean of primes: Modern zooms can be really good.  Last fall I bought a stack of lenses from an MV photographer who had gone mirrorless.

The least interesting but most useful of the bunch was the 24-70mm F/2.8L II.  It's the perfect "walk around" focal range and a vast improvement of the original model (which was more than a bit of a dog.)  Also pictured is the 100-400mm  F/4.5-5.6L IS II which is an impressive and massive beast, but also a great way to blow copious amount of dust into one's camera body.  I took all of the following with the 24-70.

It's been so long since I've posted photos in this thread that we're going all the way back to last Christmas.  I'll win no awards for framing on this one (especially on a stationary object) but in spite of my snapshotesque abilities with the viewfinder, I really like the the look of this shot.

 

30 seconds at F/22, ISO200.  I really needed to do shots significantly longer than 30 seconds, and I was too stubborn to raise the ISO.  At this point I had not been able to locate my remote cable.  Blissfully, the remote I bought for my 30D in 2006 works with the 5D IV.  This coming Christmas I can do multi-minute exposures.

 

This is the house my father grew up in.  It has a big Cyrano De Bergerac portico that juts out into an already narrow sidewalk.  For something like 150 years it has served as an inconvenience to all passers-by.  I love it.  Cool Story Bro: My grandparents were the last private family to live in the house.  After they moved out in 1940s, it became a law office and of course it's been a retail shop for decades at this point.

 

Right next to the Vineyard Haven ferry slip.  Not pictured: the December wind ripping across the harbor and through my jacket.

 

I will cheerfully take the same picture over and over again, in different weather an lighting conditions.

 

Happy sledders enjoying the first snow of the season.

 

Later afternoon sun on Sweetened Water Farm.

 

There's that patch of woods again.

 

The calm before the blizzard.

 

The aftermath.

 

Ideal lighting conditions at the Oak Bluffs harbor.

 

Still shooting that 1980s car commercial.

 

All good things must come to an end.

 

[n_maher]

I'm going to try my hand at timelapse photography next week for work.  So. 40000mAH external and a dummy internal are on the way for the A7IV for the 6000 or so images I'll need to capture across the 36hr exercise.  Here's to hoping it's not a bunch of wasted effort.

Suggestions/hints/tips are welcome.

[crappyjones123]

Margined leatherwing beetle from this morning. 

[jose]

Last night I was able to pick up the 70-200mm lens... I couldn't go out for a training session today (my Great Dane is in the hospital with a growth-related fever), so I suppose I'll have some time today to try it out.

The only thing I don't quite like is that the shoe gets in the way when using the zoom ring, so I've had to move it to the side.

[blessingx]

Looks like Capture One will be sold again.
https://petapixel.com/2026/05/28/capture-ones-private-equity-owner-is-trying-to-sell-it-report/  

I really don’t want to go back to an Adobe subscription, Exposure (aka Alien Skin) hasn’t been updated in a few years, PhotoLab doesn’t seem to have any interest in demosaicing old or unusual sensors, and my experiences with Luminar and ON1 have not been positive. Maybe time to give Darktable a try, unless others have a different recommendation? 

[HiWire]

Affinity by Canva? It's free.

[blessingx]

37 minutes ago, HiWire said:

Affinity by Canva? It's free.

Thanks, yeah it’s a strong app and I use occasionally. This is where we get to the apples to apples question. [Switching to Adobe-speak] Affinity, is a great Photoshop replacement, not so much Lightroom. Trick is Capture One covered what I needed for both. The Photoshop-Lightroom division has always felt abnormal from a photography perspective (though PS is obviously used by non-photographers too). PhotoLab is close as tries a similar approach, but because its focus is camera and lens corrections, it won’t even import (or fall back to OS processing) any non-supported combos. You’re dead in the water with many cameras, including several I use. Anyway, first world problems, but all ears for suggestions and thanks for this one.  

Edited 20 minutes ago by blessingx