Post up your photos taken with Sony RX100

[Johnboy]

I purchased the Mark 3 model of this camera a couple of weeks ago (thanks, Joel from Camera Land) to carry along on hunting trips. I need to get some practice in before a trip to the Brooks Range in September. If you have one of these cameras, post up your best stuff -- especially photos taken with your own custom settings. I want to see the standard that I should try to achieve.

Thanks!

 

[tuffcity]

Here's a few from the past couple of years. I use it mainly in manual mode so I can control the fstop and shutter speed.

This ram was "digiscoped" by extending the lens all the way out then using my hand as a tube I held it to the spotting scope and took the pic with the self timer on.

The panorama future works well.

As does working in manual mode.

RC

 

[Hokkaido]

That's quite nice of you to post up those pics, very generous. Too bad the OP has decided not to thank you. I've found it quite interesting reading numerous posts of people impolitely asking, and even sometimes nearly demanding info. Might be connected to why such folks have ample time on their hands.

Great pics by the way, very fine camerawork.

 

[COlineman78]

Still Learning:

 

[Johnboy]

Excellent photos, gents. I'd offer my thanks, but apparently the deadline for that has already past. My apologies.

 

[brewer427]

That's quite nice of you to post up those pics, very generous. Too bad the OP has decided not to thank you. I've found it quite interesting reading numerous posts of people impolitely asking, and even sometimes nearly demanding info. Might be connected to why such folks have ample time on their hands.

Great pics by the way, very fine camerawork.

Holy Chit man what the hell got shoved up your ass. You do realize that there is guys who don't spend every waking moment on rokslide waiting for someone to respond or give them props on there posts. Maybe, just maybe the OP was in the woods since he posted last and has been out of cell service, or maybe he was traveling or maybe he was doing any number of other things except starring at a damn computer screen over the July 4th weekend.

 

[tuffcity]

apparently the deadline for that has already past

LOL No offense taken by me! I'm just surprised that, apparently, there are only 2 of us using this camera!

RC

 

[bbrown]

Been using mine about a year now and still figuring out the details but pretty happy with it. Posted most of these up already and have a bunch more photos I need to get off the camera but haven't gotten around to it yet.

 

[Johnboy]

COlineman and bbrown, I think I'm still within the window of opportunity to thank you for your contributions. (Based on the timing of posts near the top of this thread, I'm assuming it's something less than 24 hours. If anyone knows the official allowable gratitude deadline timeframe, please advise.)

I really like those night photos. I'm assuming that's an extended exposure sort of thing. I'll give that a try and see if I can get it to turn out.

 

[adventure907]

Here are a few I have taken with my RX 100. I am nowhere in the league as the other guys, those are amazing pictures. I know absolutely nothing about photography, but I was wondering if your guys that took those awesome nighttime pictures, could maybe provide a layman tutorial as to how you guys do that....

 

[COlineman78]

I have yet to try any good night shots, but from my research and playing around in the living room it is fairly simple.

1) Use a tripod as sturdy as you are willing to carry to ensure it doesn't move. Getting one with a hook on the bottom to hang a heavy bag can help as any movement will result in blurriness.

2) Set the Aperture (F-Stop) as high as you can, however if you want to blur the background lowering this will accomplish it.

3) Set the ISO as low as you can, but if you don't want light streak, this is going to be where you can add graininess in order to lessen shutter speed.

4) Set shutter speed according to the amount of light available. I will usually take a picture, review it and adjust. It is easier to bring up in post than to bring down IMO so try to get it as close is possible, but if it's a little on the dark side that's okay.

5) Set it to manual focus and try to get what you want in focus. Auto focus in low light can really bite you. If you have to shine a flashlight on what you are trying to get in focus.

6) Set the camera to timer mode so that there isn't any shaking in the camera from your finger. You can also skip this step by using your phone as a remote.

Here was a video I used to learn from: Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO, & Light Explained-Understanding Exposure & Camera Settings - YouTube

 

[bbrown]

Some good info from COlineman78 and I followed the guide provided by CrzyTrekker here:
http://www.rokslide.com/forums/gene...photography-primer.html?highlight=Night+shots

The best advice I got was to "bracket" the night shots by making incremental changes to the exposure time and ISO in a set of pictures without changing the camera location. This allows you to see what each minor change reflects in the group of pictures and really helped me see and learn what the settings actully change. I'm still learning and feel like there is still a bunch I could improve on but CrzyTrekker's intro helped to shorten the learning curve.

 

[bbrown]

A few more....