My 4th trip to the awesomeness that is Nepal. Otherworldly landscapes, lovely friendly people and a travel destination par excellence for real travellers.
A few shots from my just completed trip to Nepal. These from the wonderful town of Bhaktapur.
Excuse the crude processing of tiny files. I've just got back (and haven't touched the originals yet) and the processing was done transferring tiny versions of the shots from my two cameras to an iPad and processed in Snapseed for uploading to Instagram. They may be a little (haha) over saturated 😀
All files are tiny, and so will show noise, from ca. 0.5MB up to 1.5MB.
All taken with a 100-400G on an A9.
And a landscape thrown in for good measure. I haven't really started on the real processing yet, I have over 5,000 shots to cull and sort first !
I guess not many people use this camera for landscapes (I usually use my Sony A7rii for those) but often on the trail the A7rii is in the backpack not the camera bag and so I 'make do' with the Sony A9 🙂
Annapurna South (7219m / 23,684 ft) at dawn (Annapurna is a massif in the Himalayas in north-central Nepal that includes one peak - the world's 10th highest - over 8,000 metres (26,000 ft), thirteen peaks over 7,000 metres (23,000 ft), and sixteen more over 6,000 metres (20,000 ft)). This time I just simply forgot to switch cameras, however it's a 4 shot pano and the DNG alone is 74MB so I didn't really need the A7rii 😀
A9. Zeiss Loxia 21mm. 4 shot panorama.
N.B. Annapurna I (one) has the greatest fatality rate of all the world's 14 eight-thousanders: as of March 2012, there have been 52 deaths during ascents, 191 successful ascents, and nine deaths upon descent. The ratio of 34 deaths per 100 safe returns on Annapurna I is followed by 29 for K2 and 21 for Nanga Parbat.
A few shots from my just completed trip to Nepal. These from the wonderful town of Bhaktapur.
Excuse the crude processing of tiny files. I've just got back (and haven't touched the originals yet) and the processing was done transferring tiny versions of the shots from my two cameras to an iPad and processed in Snapseed for uploading to Instagram. They may be a little (haha) over saturated 😀
All files are tiny, and so will show noise, from ca. 0.5MB up to 1.5MB.
All taken with a 100-400G on an A9.
And a landscape thrown in for good measure. I haven't really started on the real processing yet, I have over 5,000 shots to cull and sort first !
I guess not many people use this camera for landscapes (I usually use my Sony A7rii for those) but often on the trail the A7rii is in the backpack not the camera bag and so I 'make do' with the Sony A9 🙂
Annapurna South (7219m / 23,684 ft) at dawn (Annapurna is a massif in the Himalayas in north-central Nepal that includes one peak - the world's 10th highest - over 8,000 metres (26,000 ft), thirteen peaks over 7,000 metres (23,000 ft), and sixteen more over 6,000 metres (20,000 ft)). This time I just simply forgot to switch cameras, however it's a 4 shot pano and the DNG alone is 74MB so I didn't really need the A7rii 😀
A9. Zeiss Loxia 21mm. 4 shot panorama.
N.B. Annapurna I (one) has the greatest fatality rate of all the world's 14 eight-thousanders: as of March 2012, there have been 52 deaths during ascents, 191 successful ascents, and nine deaths upon descent. The ratio of 34 deaths per 100 safe returns on Annapurna I is followed by 29 for K2 and 21 for Nanga Parbat.
