7 August 2022
You Yangs Regional Park again
A second visit to a nice hill between Melbourne and Geelong. The last time was 1.5 years ago, which at the time was the first day in 6 or more months that I was allowed to leave my house for a reason other than to buy food or medicine due to COVID. This time it was a visit just for fun.
I decided to give my Ricoh GRIII a rest, and see what I could make my Canon G1x III do. I do not like the photos out of the Canon, and although today was better, it was a fantastic day and great scenery, so any camera would have done ok, I think the Ricoh would have done a better job. Despite the Canon having zoom, which is one reason why I took it, I did not really use the zoom. Enough camera talk.
View soon after the upper car park. Very green as it is winter here. It is brown in summer.
Photos in light from behind seem to always look soft in the Canon. I will talk shit about that as this goes on.
Sky is a strange shade of blue, but its been recovered a bit from shooting into the light... which I think suggests the dynamic range of the Canon is low. The clouds and sky were great today.
Shiny rock. Despite f8, the focus area seems thin.
Redundant photo of dead tree.
The leaves on the right side look soft, I rarely deviate from f8, maybe I need f11 on this camera, although I doubt it.
Boring photo. Better to come.
Probably the best photo in this direction today, the rock makes me notice the overall softness less.
I thought this would be a great photo, but it lacks detail. Maybe the actual auto focus is faulty? Something to look into further.
Not bad, having something in the foreground which is sharp, helps.
The main photo taking spot.
One of two contenders for photo of the day. Nice colors, nice sky.
Also not bad, but I prefer the above.
Pretty good, lots of things in focus at different distances.
Boring, redundant.
A rock. This is a crop as someones bag was in the way on the rock.
The next few from the summit are all pretty good. The green fluffy bushes look sharp.
Although in this direction, not so good from the summit, light at my back.
Probably photo of the day. Great sky. Green fluffy bushes.
Similar but with some zoom. Not as good.
And to finish, another soft shot.