General Photography

Miket99 said:
wanted to get a feel, are more and more professional and advanced photographers here moving to the mirrorless systems?
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The photographer who shot my wedding, shot his first wedding with his new Fuji mirrorless this weekend. He seems happy with it.
 
I must admit that my next camera in a few years will probably be a Sony Mirrorless if its still the same status quo as currently. The size, and live preview of the exposure are the main factors for me.
 
Mirrorless is defiantly the way to go, its just a case of the most popular brand offerings and rep.
 
Anyone played around shooting the nightsky?
It looks beautiful at night at Theewaterskloof
I have an el-cheapo 2nd hand Canon 400D with kit zoom lens (i think 18-55) and a 40mm Pancake lens i bought a year ago.

Shooting in RAW on tripod with 10 - 30 second exposures and then later bringing it into post but not getting anything near what i want like below image as an example.
I have always believed the lens is the most important thing and not the camera, but then again you cannot polish a turd, hence is the problem my camera?

I do have access to better lenses at work like the Canon EF 28-300 f3.5-5.6 IS USM.

your thoughts? thanx
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I doubt you can get photos like the one above in SA (I stand to be corrected).
I think this can be see in only certain parts of the world.
It's part of the Milky Way.
That sort of dense stars in one pic is hard to come by here.
 
Zyk1 said:
I doubt you can get photos like the one above in SA (I stand to be corrected).
I think this can be see in only certain parts of the world.
It's part of the Milky Way.
That sort of dense stars in one pic is hard to come by here.
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That, and the level of contrast and vividness will require lots of layering and post processing.
 
Zyk1 said:
I doubt you can get photos like the one above in SA (I stand to be corrected).
I think this can be see in only certain parts of the world.
It's part of the Milky Way.
That sort of dense stars in one pic is hard to come by here.
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You can see the milkyway like this a mere 1.5 hours out of Cape Town.
 
Chuckmyster said:
Anyone played around shooting the nightsky?
It looks beautiful at night at Theewaterskloof
I have an el-cheapo 2nd hand Canon 400D with kit zoom lens (i think 18-55) and a 40mm Pancake lens i bought a year ago.

Shooting in RAW on tripod with 10 - 30 second exposures and then later bringing it into post but not getting anything near what i want like below image as an example.
I have always believed the lens is the most important thing and not the camera, but then again you cannot polish a turd, hence is the problem my camera?

I do have access to better lenses at work like the Canon EF 28-300 f3.5-5.6 IS USM.

your thoughts? thanx
v2
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Lens will be the biggest contributing factor when you start out with astro photography. If you want good milky way shots aim for anything that has a constant aperture of at least f/2.8. For crop sensor cameras you can even try something like a 35mm f/1.8, although be warned that's more equal to 52mm on a full frame so you really have a narrow field of view to work with. I always advise people starting out to go to https://www.lonelyspeck.com/ . Everything you'd ever need to know is contained in there.
 
Chuckmyster said:
Anyone played around shooting the nightsky?
It looks beautiful at night at Theewaterskloof
I have an el-cheapo 2nd hand Canon 400D with kit zoom lens (i think 18-55) and a 40mm Pancake lens i bought a year ago.

Shooting in RAW on tripod with 10 - 30 second exposures and then later bringing it into post but not getting anything near what i want like below image as an example.
I have always believed the lens is the most important thing and not the camera, but then again you cannot polish a turd, hence is the problem my camera?

I do have access to better lenses at work like the Canon EF 28-300 f3.5-5.6 IS USM.

your thoughts? thanx
v2
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If you want an image like this the first step will be to shoot when the milky way is visible. One of the astronomy apps should help you. The brightest part of the milky way is in Sagittarius, so look for a good date and time for when it will be highest in the sky. June is generally best for us.

Next step will be to pick nights where there is no moon. Once again the astronomy app should be useful here.

Finally get as far away from light as possible. After that you can get down to the photography part.
 
garyc said:
If you want an image like this the first step will be to shoot when the milky way is visible. One of the astronomy apps should help you. The brightest part of the milky way is in Sagittarius, so look for a good date and time for when it will be highest in the sky. June is generally best for us.

Next step will be to pick nights where there is no moon. Once again the astronomy app should be useful here.

Finally get as far away from light as possible. After that you can get down to the photography part.
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awesome advice, thank you
 
Miket99 said:
wanted to get a feel, are more and more professional and advanced photographers here moving to the mirrorless systems?
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I have no intention of switching anytime soon. It doesn't offer me anything I need.
 
Went the Fuji mirrorless route a few years ago. And back to DSLR again after a while.

Was more than happy with image quality and features.

Big reason was the lack of lenses, especially fast telephoto lenses. I know that is improving over time but it was an issue at the time for me.

Another big reason was the small form factor. As someone with large hands it never felt comfortable taking photos. Either through the viewfinder or all touristy with the screen at the back.

I also never managed to fall in love with one of the biggest selling features, namely the EVF. Really just a personal choice of preferring the natural "live" image instead of looking at a screen.

I can totally see why so many people (traveling, events, landscapes) fall in love with it. But as someone who mainly likes wildlife, action, sports, etc. it simply does not work for me.
 
Barbarian Conan said:
Darktable is a freelightroom alternative which seem to be quite popular.

I can't comment about how good it is, I'm still on the Adobe train.
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Even though theres many great alternatives the workflow and speed of LR is always missing. The user interface is always sucky in comparison, I find it hard to believe no one can adequately challenge them in that regard, I wish they would especially with the bollocks subscription model.

Are there any alternatives that offer easy support for midi interfaces?

There's some good plug-ins for LR that makes it easy to use midi controllers, that's where amazing editing happens, when you can twist knobs and push sliders, get tactile.
 
I have been using Affinity photo a lot lately. I really prefer it to lightroom from the point of ease-of-use. I would give it a try if I were you.
 
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