Hi Srajan,
have you changed your camera recently?
Cheers,
Dawid
Yes. Why?
Srajan
Your photos got far better.
Dawid
Blame the camera then -:)
Srajan
Aye. All angles are the same but macro work, colours and overall plasticity got improved quite significantly and i.e. Lumin X review shows this very clearly. Now your photos look like made by a small modern mirrorless camera. My bet is Fuji. Some two months ago I've sold my rather expensive Canon full-frame DSLR and a number of L series lenses, got Fuji X-T2 and am perfectly happy. Photo work is fun again.
Cheers,
Dawid
Unlike you, I'm not a photographer but a cheating savage not of the noble sort. I use the exact same glass as before (Lumix/Leica, one wide angle, one macro) but got a Lumix G-80 2:3 mirrorless body. The macro work now is shot in 4K video. Then I do focus stacking (not in-camera but Photoshop) to select a range of frames with perfect focus in particular areas to overlay them for compensation for limited depth of field. Gives better results than F-stop manipulation with a single frame. For the regular work, I occasionally do something similar. I shoot multiple exposures and focus points of the same image, then overlay a few to pull out specific areas of specific layers in Photoshop. It gives me perfect focus and lighting in multiple areas that otherwise wouldn't be treated equally. It's cheating and a pro would know how to get the same or better results with proper setup but I'm a bleeding amateur. Here I'm interested only in the results, not the process. Very different from writing which remains my focus. There process is as important as the result. For photos, I've always used Lumix, my lenses are Lumix so I stuck with the brand. In Dublin they have a very good old-fashioned shop with very knowledgeable personnel who freely give of their time and expertise. That's how I ended up with the G-80. I got to handle it and try it out and compare it to Canon, Leica and Nikon. And like all modern cameras, it also does video. That'll come in handy in the future…
Srajan
Thanks for explanation. It seems then that your previous body was the show stopper. Well, the result is better, that's the most important part. In photography, all tricks are allowed, even the dirtiest ones. When I shoot bugs, I stack images as well. It's quite surprising how good cameras became with video over the years. Something to exploit in the future, yes.
Cheers,
Dawid
