Yesterday morning northern zealand in Denmark was covered in fog, so I decided to take my camera with me. While driving to work I had to stop to take some photos in the beautiful foggy weather. This is one of them.
I used a Sony alpha 900 + a Sony 20 f/2.8 for this photo.
It’s shot @ f/11 and 1/6 sec handheld @ ISO 400.
Location: Frederikssund, Denmark
Yesterday evening my wife and I decided to take a walk enjoying the view over Roskilde fjord where we live.
The sunset this evening was especially beautiful with wonderful pastel colors and branches that almost looked like they were on fire. For us the sunset marked the end to a great day and the beginning of a romantic evening.
What happens after a sunset
There is no people on earth that hate to look at a sunset and the beautiful colors a sunset paint the sky in. In the small town skagen (gammel skagen) here in Denmark, it’s very common for the tourists to gather on the beach and look at the sunset.
When the last part of the sun disappears under the horizon people make applauds. Shortly after everyone is gone. But even several hours after a sunset it’s possible to admire the beautiful colors of the sky at least here in Denmark. That is exactly what I have tried to capture here.
The photo are not from skagen, famous for the special light, but from the beautiful Danish island Bornholm. In the left part of the photo you can se “Hammeren” which is a place on Bornholm with extraordinary beautiful nature seen nowhere else in Denmark.
I recommend everyone to visit Bornholm at least once. I hope you like my writing and the photo.
Photo data: Eposure 10.5 minute, f/8, 24mm, ISO 100.
I feel like posting this photo today. It was shot short time after I got my Sony alpha 900 FF camera. A camera I really like to use and a camera that inspires me.
The photo is from an old abandoned farm in Frederikssund. I don’t know why it’s abandoned but the view from the farm are really a great view over Roskilde fjord.
Echinacea proudly showing it’s God given beauty
Hi again.
I have neglected my blog for some weeks now. One of the reasons are work, and another that I did catch a flu. Even though it’s some weeks ago I still feel tired. Well maybe the flu are not the only reason because it’s been grey, and cold outside here in Denmark. Not exactly an energy booster!
The photo I have posted today are from my first Dital SLR camera the KonicaMinolta Dynax 7D. A great no nonsense 6,1 MP DSLR with intuitive and direct control over almost everything a photographer needs. The camera produce some lovely colors and also great detail for a 6 MP camera which can be seen on some of the prints I have made in the A3 size.
Some years ago I gave it away to a friend who needed a camera and now I mostly uses my Sony Alpha 900 which for me is a almost perfect camera although it’s about 4 years old and now “has to compete” against new cameras like Canon 5D MkIII, Nikon D600 and D800 and last but not least the Sony Alpha 99 which is a tour de force in technology!
You may ask if I considered to buy a new camera instead of my 4 years old a900? Yes I must admit. I actually tried to sell my a900 for some weeks, but then decided to compare some photos from the above mentioned cameras.
What did I find? Actually several things 😉
First I was looking for how much noise the cameras produced at ISO 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, and 6400. To do that I simply downloaded the test shots from www.imaging-resource.com and www.dpreview.com.First I concentrated on the lower ISO’s since that is what I use most.
At ISO 100-400 I was quite surprised to see how well my Sony a900 compared to the newer competitors even when I lightened up the shadows 3 stops. Ok, the a900 does have a bit more noise in the shadows than Nikon D600, 800 and the Sony a99 but that is not visible in a print. In the red colors it even has lower noise than the other cameras and surprisingly the Canon 5D MkIII has more noise in the shadows, noise that shows up as what I would describe, an ugly pattern noise (though not very visible unless you use longer exposure times). But above ISO 1600 the other cameras are simply better. from 1 to about 1,5 stops.
Another thing I tried was how munch I could lighten and darken the image in Adobe’s Lightroom 4.3 before the shadows was completely dark and before the highlights was blown. I found that the a900 was a bit behind the Sony alpha 99, Nikon D600 and it’s bigger brother the D800. The Canon 5D MkIII was about on par with the Sony alpha 900.
I know my small test have some limitations. It would have been better to test the cameras against each other on a real motive like a landscape scene. But since I am not a professional camera tester I could not get my hands on all of the cameras, although I probably could have got my hands on a D600, D800 and a 5D MkIII.
As always I take the tests numbers from dpreview, DxO mark and imaging-resource regarding DR and noise with a grain of salt because for me the only real comparison would be to take the cameras out in the nature, learn their quirks and capture some images. Then I would go home, open up the files in my favorite RAW converter, Adobe’s Lightroom 4, and try to get some photos out of the cameras that would be true to how I experienced the landscape.
To make a long story short. What I found made me keep my Sony Alpha 900. I decided to jump over this generation of full frame cameras and wait for the next generation that probably will be even better than this generation.
Kind regards
David Cartagena
P.S. If Sony in Denmark would let me borrow an alpha 99, I would love to write a review and post some comparison shots. Maybe I would then have to “eat” some of the words I have written here today 😉
10 Great Ways to Get Noticed as a Blogger.
Today I read this fabulous blog post. As you can see I am new to the world of blogs, and choose to write in a Language that is not my native language. So for me it’s quite a steep hill.
But articles like the one above helps and motivates.
More photos will be posted tomorrow, and I am planing a small test of a Sony 70-200 f/2,8 G SSM lens. It wont be a very large test but with real sample images at different focal length’s and aperture.
You will probably have to wait a month or two before you can read the review right here on my blog.
Kind regards
David
Hi.
Today was another grey day here in Denmark. Low static clouds rendered the landscape as was it an low contrast B&W photo. I did not have any opportunity yet to shoot some photos so here is once again a photo from beautiful Norway. Hope you will like it!
Kind regards
David Cartagena
Today the foggy weather continued. So I needed to look at a photo that reminds me of last summer in Norway. I will later show more from my trip to Norway.
After seeing the Norwegian fjords in Rain, fog and also sunshine I must say that they are “beauty beyond imagination” even when it rains and are foggy.
This photo show Artania from Phoenix Reisen heading towards Hellesylt in Norway
Kind regards
David
The fog stayed here in my area nearly the whole day. So I decided to take som photos this evening playing with the lights. This is one of the photos that came out of my half hour photo walk.
This time I used my SONY alpha FF DSLR camera.
This morning in the area around the small town Kulhuse, the fog was al over creating a beautiful landscape rendering the sun as was it the moon shining through the clouds at night.
Ones again I used my SONY mobile phone which was the only camera I had with me.
Kind regards
David Cartagena
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