First shot with the 16-105 700 kit option
Posted on: Thu, 05/15/2008 - 1:43am
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First shot with the 16-105 700 kit option
Bought this for my Alpha 100. I'm pretty new to the Alpha, having it for about a month. I've had a Minolta Maxxum 7 35mm before. So I do have some good lenses, plus the 5600HD. I have the 50mm 1.4, the 100-300, a Tamrom 19-35, and a weird macro that is like 28 to 85.
Anyways, here are some pics from the trip....
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Sony Alpha-100 & Minolt Maxxum 7 35mm with VC-7 and HS5600D Flash
Sony 16-105 3.5-5.6 + Minolta 50mm 1.4 +
Minolta 100-300 3.5-5.6 + Minolta 28-85 Macro 3.5-4.5
Tamron 19-35 3.5-4.5
Very creative, #2 is outstanding in my opinion. And I keep going back to #1 and #4 as well, very nice. I see some vignetting in some of these shots, but it doesn't appear to be all that bad.
Where are these shot at? Is this Fiji perhaps?
Carl
-AlphaMountWorld Chef
~Serving up Reviews and other little Appetizers~
those are neat photos, the dance scenes and shore shots as well as the young lady are all quite nice.
Looks like a fun trip, is that somewhere in the caymans by any chance?
Eric
-AlphaMountWorld Chef
These are great shots. #s 1, 4 and 6 are the winners for me, but the whole set is beautiful.
Is #5 a shot of a temple or church? This does have a Pacific look to it. I would guess Tahiti.
Royston
A100(18-70mm kit), Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8, Minolta 50mm F1.7, Quantaray 70-300mm F4-5.6
http://roystonkane.com/blog/
Appreciate the comments. I grew up with a father who lugged a Pentax 6X7 around with him everywhere and gave me a Rollei when I was under 10 years old, but I am strictly an amateur hobbyist.
The location for #1, #4 and #6 are Marco Island in Florida. Just on the North Western tip of the Everglades. The strange yellow pic was taken in Orlando. From my hotel balcony. I t is of the Disney Swan Resort (google it to check out the giant swans on the roof). Google Maps says it was 4.8 miles away by car, on the map it measures out over 3 miles for direct line of sight. Not bad for the old Minolta 100-300.
All the pics outside of the swan roof where taken with the Alpha 700's new 16-105 kit option lens. I love the wide angle and the zoom amount, but dislike the softness under f5 in the middle (50mm) focal lengths. I find to get good portraits I have to use smaller apertures (larger Fstops) which is counter-intuitive to getting a nice shallow depth of field. So I step back and zoom in which allows the smaller Fstops to be used (losing 1 or two stops from the lens at the longer focal lengths). Oh well, they're still great shots. I need to crop one or two and straighten them out...but I'm too lazy! :)
Anyways, whomever has put this site together has done a great job.
Frank
Sony Alpha-100 & Minolt Maxxum 7 35mm with VC-7 and HS5600D Flash
Sony 16-105 3.5-5.6 + Minolta 50mm 1.4 +
Minolta 100-300 3.5-5.6 + Minolta 28-85 Macro 3.5-4.5
Tamron 19-35 3.5-4.5
Hi guys,
Thought it would be interesting to show the thought process (or luck) behind one of the shots.
Step one take the obligatory balcony view shot of the hotel grounds at widest angle:
Step two pan right and take another:
Step three noticed that something was there in the haze. This is a 1:1 pixel zoom of the above photo:
Step four, pull out the 100-300 and get a keeper:
You can see more of the Disney architecture in the above when enlarged.
Sony Alpha-100 & Minolt Maxxum 7 35mm with VC-7 and HS5600D Flash
Sony 16-105 3.5-5.6 + Minolta 50mm 1.4 +
Minolta 100-300 3.5-5.6 + Minolta 28-85 Macro 3.5-4.5
Tamron 19-35 3.5-4.5
Hi and welcome to AMW it's a great site you'll have fun.
Great series there Fkrul, and thanks for showing us the thought process behind that shot, it's amazing how a photo can just 'develop' right in front of us.
Cheers
Andrew