City and Streets - Imprinted by LightCaptured
When something happens in my life, especially something that is not "colorful" at all, I am trying to compensate by looking to add more color.
Yeah, adding more colors into it feels better. I guess some will say, sharing some city life pictures from Rome, Italy won't improve the daily routines or the quality of life. They may be right but still, we don't know what tomorrow will bring.
But then, hey, why keep those sweet moments and places, that took my attention, only to myself.
I can't know for sure but I hope one of these will make someone's day a bit better.
Now join me in enjoying the beauty of Rome and its people...
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Here is an uncomplete list of some of my equipment I use on a regular basis:
| Cameras | |
|---|---|
| Canon EOS 5D Mark III | |
| Canon EOS M5 | |
| Canon EOS 550D | |
| Lenses | |
| Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM | |
| Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM | |
| Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM | |
| Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM | |
| Canon EF-M 15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM | |
| Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM | |
| Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 | |
| 7artisans 35mm f/1.2 | |
| Strobes | Dynaphos Speedster |
| Flashes | Metz |
| Tripods and Mono-pods | Manfrotto |
| Benro |
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Just yesterday late at night I was going through one of my photo albums and I have to admit that apparently this is my way of feeling better. I don't know if I can influence anyone else, but definitely the memories of the beautiful places (in this case it was an album from the Bulgarian coast, which I'm not sure when I'll be able to visit again) that I've ever visited, somehow change things.
Yes, nothing is certain about tomorrow. The only thing we can be sure of are our memories. Especially the pictorial ones.
I perceive photographs as a means of documenting and archiving memories. It is true that they occupy quite a large space of memory - computer and external one. But they are often impossibly huge for the brain's memory, so they need to be stored in an additional material and technical place.🤭
(I think there is no need to comment on your wonderful photos.😊)
Sharing something beautiful adds beauty to our environment, I think. Too much negative stuff is poured onto us, on a daily basis, don't you think? ;)
Thank you :)
Photography is just that - a personal time-machine ;)
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Я заметил, что ты любишь мягкие фотографии.
Ты специально при постобработке уменьшаешь детализацию/резкость?
Ha! That's very interesting of you to say :)
I usually increase the Clarity a lot (in Lightroom). I only decrease it when it is portrait photography.
Probably in this series, it is because of the camera, it is the smaller mirrorless Canon M5, it produces a bit softer pictures and if I do to much post-processing, there are lots of artefacts and noise.
I have to say, I don't like HDR look-a-like, I always try to find the perfect balance, of course, to my taste :)
Thank you!
Я спросил потому, что сам иногда в Лайтрум делаю такой приём
С одной стороны повышаю резкость, но при этом уменьшаю детализацию в текстуре. Мне не нравится цифровая "бритвенная" детализация. Если только это не макро или что-то красивое в самой текстуре.
А вообще я сторонник минимальной обработки и мягкости мануальной оптики прошлого века ))
Ah, I see :)
Usually I don't touch the texture, well, let's say in 95% of the photos I edit.
The photos I post-process for stock, Clarity is set to +50 and for landscapes I also push the Dehaze to +20 to +50 depending on the haze present.
But for portraits, especially female ones, I often do negative Clarity values ;)
Hope that makes sense.
The problem with modern digital cameras is that unless I shoot in RAW (I do that 99%) the camera applies some editing, sometimes heavy, depending on the settings - the metering, the mode, etc., you know. With phone cameras this is extreme and all the images are heavily processed and what's even strange to me, there aren't many phones that provide shooting in RAW. My current one doesn't do that but my previous one did. I guess a matter of price, after all. File sizes are huge, that too so most people will not use that feature, I suppose.
Я редко снимаю телефоном и там точно нет формата RAW.
Но когда я использую камеру, это 100% RAW.
Чёткость и текстура интересно влияют друг на друга.
Иногда чёткость делает снимок светлее, иногда затемняет и это как ни странно зависит от объектива, который был использован.
Портреты, особенно женские, приятнее смотрятся в мягком варианте, здесь ты абсолютно прав. Если тебе конечно не хочется сделать брутальный мужской портрет с небритым лицом :D
А вообще мне нравится эффект, который ближе к "плёночной" фотографии. Там одновременно присутствует и чёткость и мягкость. За это я люблю Гелиосы :)
Yes :) I think once I made that experiment with female portrait and Clarity +100, most of them hated it, hehe :)
One day I'll get my hands on one of them lenses...
I would love to have this one, if they start producing for Canon mounts too: https://www.zenit.photo/en/catalog/zenitar-75mm-f-1-4-lens-he/
Родинки, бородавки, прыщик, морщинки ... да, они были бы в восторге :D
Есть практически такой же объектив по бюджетной цене: Гелиос 40-2 с 85 мм фокусного расстояния.
Единственное существенное отличие, он имеет резьбу М42, а новый объектив сделан под конкретный байонет. Но переходник легко решает эту задачу, он просто становится частью объектива. Ты можешь купить этот Гелиос и переходник М42-Canon и не надо ждать эту новинку. К тому же новинка будет в несколько раз дороже.
https://www.avito.ru/sankt-peterburg/fototehnika/obektiv_gelios-40-2-n_3592131171
или здесь
:)))
I see the brand new ones are already available locally, true, the price is about double the old one (here in the range of EUR 399-440) but as you say, I won't need the lens adapter ;)
I have to search online, probably there are reviews comparing the specs and photos from the new and the old ones ;)
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