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Posted: 24 Mar 2014

Taken: 23 Mar 2014

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Souvenirs of various pitchers, vases, bowls, etc., that belonged to my late mother.

For The Sunday Challenge Group - "a precious souvenir acquired from a past holliday."

Camera: Sony Alpha SLT-A77V
Lens: DT 18-135mm (@45mm)
ISO: 16,000
Exposure Program: Manual
Picture Effect: Soft Focus: Mid
Aperture: F/11
Shutter Speed: 1/30th sec.
Date: Sunday, March 23rd, 2014, 7.36.08 p.m.
Place: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A.

Valfal, , Indycaver (Norm), have particularly liked this photo

11 comments - The latest ones
 Amazingstoker
Amazingstoker
love the colours and softness here
10 years ago.
 Indycaver (Norm)
Indycaver (Norm) club
Great collection! Love the softness of the image!
10 years ago.
 Clickity Click
Clickity Click
What lovely tones in this image ... nicely presented Kenneth! :)
10 years ago.
 Shuttering Yukon
Shuttering Yukon
I like this too Kenneth.. it's soft and the colour is very different.
10 years ago.
 Valfal
Valfal
Wow! I love your collection; beautiful photograph!
10 years ago.
 Karen's Place
Karen's Place club
Wow, so nice especially on such short notice. :)
10 years ago.
 HaarFager
HaarFager club
Thanks, everybody!
10 years ago.
 H C
H C
A great collection and I like the way you have presented them.
10 years ago.
 HaarFager
HaarFager club
I found out this image made Explore for an hour or two. That was interesting.
10 years ago.
 HaarFager
HaarFager club
I had an a230 before this one which I primarily bought because it would use all my Minolta a-mount lenses. Plus, I found an adapter that allows me to use all my really old Minolta film lenses. So, going with the a77 was a natural progression for me. True, it is a big frame, but I like something big to get a good grip on. I like it so far and the only thing I can complain about is the kit lens that it came with, the 18-135mm. It sometimes causes a little distortion along the extreme edges of some of my pictures. I'm trying to figure out why this happens on rare occasions but not with most. With the a77, I think Sony has finally addressed the graininess issue of their higher ISO's, and in fact, I used the highest ISO setting on this picture just to see how the grain turned out. I don't think the average person wouldn't know that the ISO was set so high, but the graininess is at a minimum as far as I can see.

All in all, the a77 has a lot of great features that work for me and I would highly suggest you try one out. The 10 frames per second shooting speed is nice, as well as a feature it has that allows me to shoot in very low light with the camera hand-held. It will take a 5 or 6 shot burst, meld them somehow as in HDR and come up with a picture that is much brighter and much less grainier. How it does it, I don't know, but it allows me to shoot handheld in near darkness and get a very good, usable image out of it.

Hope this helps.
10 years ago.
 HaarFager
HaarFager club
I strictly use the evf as well. What I really like about it is that, since I shoot 99.9% of the time in manual, it will show me what the finished exposure is going to look like. That's handy a lot of the times. I'll even use it as a "light meter" for shooting some of my really old film cameras that have no adjustments. I set the film speed and approximate aperture/shutter speed and see if it will be close to turning out exposed properly.
10 years ago.

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