Was doing some editing today. This place might have been the best find of my entire west coast road trip (and only 30 minute drive from that beach shot above). One of the most magical places you could imagine, and not a single soul around. You could climb the massive hills, go on two different black sand beaches, go into a massive cave where the ocean had punctured through, purple flowers everywhere, deep fog.... MAGIC!
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More editing - have covid so just cranking these out.
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excuse the compression as the raw files are on my other laptop, but here's one of my favourite pics I took last week in Vegas. used a Nikon D3300 which I recently picked up quite cheap with a low shutter count and a 20 quid plastic Holga HL-N lens which was a great purchase. it's a completely manual lens so takes a little getting used to but I took hundreds of fun pics with this and also the regular old nikkor 18-55mm which is also a solid all purpose lens
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Am currently in Lagos, Portugal with a few friends for a week long break. It’s rather nice here… 
Took this on my current trip in Costa Rica. One of the greatest animals!
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Video taken on the highest mountain between the border of Switzerland and Italy. That's an entire glacier.
Archon has got me back into the photography platform 500px again. Logged in after maybe 10 years and looking at some of my earliest photos. A lot of these were taken around 2010, when I was getting more into photography (but still without a good camera)
I always loved this one and the English summer evening vibes it has. It was taken very close to my house whilst on of the many bike rides I would do with my friends around the lanes, roads and canals. Thats like peak memory for me now, best years of your life kind of stuff.
I always loved this one and the English summer evening vibes it has. It was taken very close to my house whilst on of the many bike rides I would do with my friends around the lanes, roads and canals. Thats like peak memory for me now, best years of your life kind of stuff.
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The Colors, textures and positioning of the elements are excellent
New favourite building unlocked. I took this in Manhattan, NYC in May, having never come across it before. It's an absolute brutalist monster, and doesn't contain a single window. What kind of building would have no windows? A suspicious one. Later I learned this is the AT&T Long Lines building, a tele-communications hub at the heart of the NSA spying scandal. I'm sure some other shady corporate and government shit goes down in here. I mean doesn't it just scream tyrannical? I love it.
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Ever since selling my compact Olympus E-M5 III + 24-90mm (full-frame equivalent) lens and investing into a Nikon Z5 II + 24-120mm, I've sort of regretted it.
Z5 II might be a better, newer camera, but it's also quite bulky. The size/weight doesn't bother me per se, but it just sticks out more whenever I carry it. Meaning it's probably out for all situations, except for hiking, or where the sole purpose of an activity is to take photos. Ideally out of touristy spots, or wherever there's risk of it being stolen or damaged. On the good side - better ergonomics.
(it's actually much worse when you put on a lens hood)
It cost twice as much, it's twice as heavy, it will stay home twice as much.
Maybe I need this winter to pass in order to actually go out much more and use it to feel so enthusiastic about it. Maybe I just haven't been on a nice photogenic trip for a long time, haven't enjoyed the nice weather and all. But in general, what I wrote above stands true.
In order to improve in photography, you have to do it...
Maybe what I am missing is another compact setup that I could carry almost every day, but cannot justify spending more money on it. Maybe what I am missing is an all-rounder instead of the Z5 II. Maybe I just made a mistake as I cannot exploit it to its full capability. Maybe I'm just thinking about this without any reason. Come on, spring!!!
Z5 II might be a better, newer camera, but it's also quite bulky. The size/weight doesn't bother me per se, but it just sticks out more whenever I carry it. Meaning it's probably out for all situations, except for hiking, or where the sole purpose of an activity is to take photos. Ideally out of touristy spots, or wherever there's risk of it being stolen or damaged. On the good side - better ergonomics.
(it's actually much worse when you put on a lens hood)
It cost twice as much, it's twice as heavy, it will stay home twice as much.
Maybe I need this winter to pass in order to actually go out much more and use it to feel so enthusiastic about it. Maybe I just haven't been on a nice photogenic trip for a long time, haven't enjoyed the nice weather and all. But in general, what I wrote above stands true.
In order to improve in photography, you have to do it...
Maybe what I am missing is another compact setup that I could carry almost every day, but cannot justify spending more money on it. Maybe what I am missing is an all-rounder instead of the Z5 II. Maybe I just made a mistake as I cannot exploit it to its full capability. Maybe I'm just thinking about this without any reason. Come on, spring!!!
I know what you mean @Archon, my camera and lense is so massive it sort of becomes an issues if I am in sketchy area, or just little bit of nuisance to carry around. I still take it everywhere though, but for day trips in the city I'm gonna get a different fixed lense, like a 50mm, that's much smaller.
Your pictures gonna look way better on the Nikon though
Your pictures gonna look way better on the Nikon though
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Yeah 35/40/50mm was gonna be my next one but still, the body is also larger. Don't feel as comfortable dragging it around everywhere either. It's not just a small robust camera anymore, or at least that's how I feel.
As for the quality, I now realize I was perfectly fine with the 20MP M43 sensor. I now have a 24MP FF sensor. Besides bokeh and probably better low light performance (which I rarely use), the rest is probably negligible.
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I share my works here for those interested: Uzbrdo! (@uzbrdo.v) • Instagram photos and videos.
(uzbrdo means uphill in my native language)
I'm of course nowhere near Hens level of shooting/editing, but I quite like them. That said, I do notice I'm editing less and less as I go on, and the photos end up more as shot than as imagined - also due to what I shoot and the time of day, conditions etc. It's a secondary activity, hiking is still primary. Also post whenever I feel like it, not gonna play the social media game for sure.
(uzbrdo means uphill in my native language)
I'm of course nowhere near Hens level of shooting/editing, but I quite like them. That said, I do notice I'm editing less and less as I go on, and the photos end up more as shot than as imagined - also due to what I shoot and the time of day, conditions etc. It's a secondary activity, hiking is still primary. Also post whenever I feel like it, not gonna play the social media game for sure.