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PaulHoule 7 days ago

Yeah, back when I had a Canon my only lens was a wide angle prime. I really like that Sony 90mm prime, DxO says it is Sony's best lens and I think it is.

Ever since I started shooting sports indoors (often w/ that 90mm prime or a 135mm prime) and started to depend on noise reduction I process everything with DxO and tend to use a lot of sharpening and color grading. One day I went out with the kit lens by accident and set the aperture really small and developed the "Monkey Run Style" for hyperrealistic landscapes that look like they were shot with a weird Soviet camera.

The lens I walk around with the most and usually photograph runners with is the Tamron 28-200 which is super-versatile for events and just walking around, I used it for the last two albums here

https://www.yogile.com/537458/all

but for the Forest Frolic I used my 16-35mm Zeiss but it was tough because it was raining heavily -- I was lucky to have another volunteer who held an umbrella for me, but I couldn't lean in. The last one (Thom B) was not color graded because I'd had some bad experiences color grading sports when I got the color of the jersey wrong but now I use color grades that are less strong -- at Trackapalooza the greens just came out too strident and I had to bring them down.

To give you some idea of how powerful noise reduction is, this shot

https://bsky.app/profile/up-8.bsky.social/post/3lv32zudu2c2d

was done in ISO 80,000 with that Tamron -- I wouldn't say it looks perfectly natural for a picture of cat that was not standing still in a room in a basement that is amazing.

FredPret 7 days ago | parent [-]

Incredible, in the 90's I could barely take a picture of my dog in broad daylight, and it cost money for the film, and I had to wait forever to get the photos back, and then the dog was blurry.

BTW your yogile album is private.

PaulHoule 7 days ago | parent [-]

See these

https://www.yogile.com/forest-frolic-2025#21m

https://www.yogile.com/trackapalooza-2025#21m

https://www.yogile.com/thom-b-2025#21m

I have no nostalgia for film, I could not afford to take 1500 film photos at a sports event -- even a photo like this which doesn't seem that remarkable

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114401857009398302

wouldn't have come out that good handheld with a 35mm back in the day.