Sony/Minolta pictures of the week | 25 December

<p>A botanical mug shot on Christmas day.</p><div></div>

<p>... and another.</p><div></div>

<p>Happy Christmas to all.</p>

<p>Here's a panorama of the Oxford skyline I took near dusk a couple of days ago with the 500mm lens.</p>

<p><a title="Skyline, take 2" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c7.staticflickr.com/1/398/31682326622_59493b13d3_b.jpg" alt="Skyline, take 2" width="1024" height="144" /></a></p>

<p>Eight frames merged to panoroma in Photoshop (A7 and Minolta AF Reflex 500mm f/8)</p>

<p>Here's the same viewpoint taken earlier as an HDR photo</p>

<p><a title="Oxford skyline, with cranes" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c6.staticflickr.com/1/335/31725286621_e8272a647b_b.jpg" alt="Oxford skyline, with cranes" width="1024" height="685" /></a><br>

(A7 and Konica Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.4)</p>

<p>The panorama printed at 300dpi would make a print nearly 8 feet wide by 15 inches high ...</p>

 

<p>Ho Ho everybody. Family is in for Christmas and with the shopping and wrapping no time for shooting. Mukul, I like the second shot. Howard the last panorama is a scene I think a knight of old might have seen.</p><div></div>

<p>Thank you, Randy.</p>

<p>One from the Sony a7, using the Canon lens AF adapter.</p><div></div>

<p>Sony A7, FE 28/2, 1/125s, f/5.6, ISO 1250<br>

<a title="Los Olivos General Store" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/1/281/31127763113_4d5bbf08c6_b.jpg" alt="Los Olivos General Store" width="683" height="1024" /></a></p>

<p>Sony A7, FE 70-200/4G OSS at 200mm, f/22, 1/5s, ISO 100. Only a light wind going, so I took a bit of a chance shooting handheld at 1/5s to get the full circle blur (at 1/15s, the windmill blades are still distinct). Image ended up 3 stops overexposed but was salvageable in post.<br>

<a title="The Aermotor" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c5.staticflickr.com/1/419/31096606764_9d6827ef9f_b.jpg" alt="The Aermotor" width="1024" height="683" /></a></p>

<p>1/5 sec. and 200mm? Remarkable.</p>