It was a warm, spring day here in Wales, the ground still soaking wet from the nights rain, and the previous few weeks heavy rainfall, and we wandered to a large waterfall that we had not visited before, plus visited a favourite church of hours.
I was armed with the Nikon Z6ii and Z24-70mm lens, and never once felt like I needed another lens, or even a tripod for the longer exposures. We headed to Longford, in Neath, South Wales, and a good size group of use made the circular route. Some of the new members travel many miles, from as far as Cardiff, Cwmbran and Ebba Vale. It was a fantastic day of photography, and most importantly, my camera images wowed me again. More on that after the images.
Edited in Photoshop, here are the images from today.
For myself, I much prefer to photograph buildings, especially churches, so being able to get in the church (Saint Matthews), really excited me. For the first time ever, I really did not have to worry about my ISO. It was dark in the curch, and while I used to worry about going over ISO3200, I didn’t even blink to consider what my auto-ISO went up to. It is set at a highest of ISO6400, but realistically, I could increase that to ISO12800. Combined with the amazing image stabilisation on the camera body, the amount of detail that the Z6ii renders in images is mind blowing. I am really not used to it. I always thought the X-T3 was good for detail, but the larger sensor really makes a huge difference.
The more I use the Nikon Z6ii, the more I wish I had upgraded back to full frame a long time ago. Yes, I LOVE the colours of Fujifilm out of camera, but it is so easy to replicate those in software. Todays images were edited in Photoshop, where I am still getting to grips with the software. I might do edits of these photos again in Darktable, just because I like editing a nice image. I love the fact I do not have to worry about ISO, or worry about camera shake, or worry about autofocus, or worry about dynamic range. Everything has changed, and it is in images I am used to seeing where I notice this the most, such as in the church, or in the backgrounds of photos, where the detail is insane.
Here is an example of the details.
Here is an example of “high” ISO.
When using my Fujifilm cameras, I would have to use noise reduction often in images like this, oftenwhen taken at ISO1600 or higher if I wanted images even half as clean as this.
It is just the little things like this that make such a difference, and when they are not resized for the website, the difference is even more noticeble.
So, until next time, I hope you like the images! Don’t forget to like, comment and subscribe!
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Hi Mark — do you recall which color the horse image was as processed by the camera? I rather liked the muted tones in the original image as posted although in other ways I understand it is not edited at that point. Would be interesting to see what PSX would do with it. Of course my standard way of beginning the process is to use HDR single edit and see where things can go and then adjust from there. Wonder how the X T5 would compare to the medium format Nikon you used. I was pretty satisfied with my wife’s 90th images I got particularly when I had issues with things that did not seem to go right. I have issues with seeing properly so PSX did a good job of the edit which I think I sent to you. MW
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The sooc jpeg was Standard with colour+2 in camera. HDR is great in PSX, it really brings images to life.
Yes, your wife looked lovely in that photo you sent me, very well taken.
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PSX HDR also has a couple of nice advantages including Masking with Invert and amount adjustments. Oh, another thought about the original image.. Maybe applying one of the Film options could be fun.. Anyway to post image to this website by members?
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I don’t think you can post images via the comments sadly. I’ll look into it.
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