CHINA , ZHANGJIAJIE , 张家界 | liewwk

… 齐拜佛光 …

Few nearby tourist locations, I didn’t make all to all the spots as my visit is mainly for photography.

A complex national park , I spent few day to understand the only wulinyuAn pArk.

Buses to different location the interlink need walking and by between the busstop the rod is exist . and no idea why they never make it interlink more convenient

Many walking for bus –elevator interchange (200-400m) . and it is not photography friendly , most of the bus start service 8-830m – 6pm only (sunrise 720m) [someone told me it is due to off peak season and I will check peak season or normal season bus operation hour] so if want to shoot sunrise/sunset need special arrange with extra payment

 

This trip mainly concentrate on wulingyuan which mainly divide by 3 parts YuanJiaJie, (袁家界) Yang JiaJie (杨家界)and TianZhiSan (天子山)

 

Every session need travel by bus, and each part consist few specify beautiful attractions … and mostly walking distance 10-90min with rock broadwalk (up and down and some could be steep) . again most of the spot with different name which need our imagination to match the view and the “rock” appearance .

 

After few days inside the park, we visit many different spots and for me it is just still rocky mountains … but for photography with the pattern and light direction (I didn’t have chance to see any snow, misty) .. we have many oppurnity  to  create some pictures .

 

Food … amazing nice local food by the homestay owner and KFC and McD (McCafe too) available .

 

I stay at a homestay which I think strategy location for no special arrangement for sunrise/sunset. As this location walking distance can shoot sunrise/sunset with rocky mountains  even it is not really the beautiful formation. This homestay owner is a retire teacher who also drawing, photograph … and it share his experience, view about “art” (not only drawing and photograph) … cook us a wonderful chicken soup dinner with his white wine collection (have a good sleep after that 😀 )

 

He has similar thought as mine ..  he say .. a good artist (for photography/drawing) need 3 main “GOOD” [好]

Good View – 好景

Good food – 好吃

Good Person – 好人

He also share what he mean for landscape view and art view (大景与小景) and why do we need balance between to for his point of art … I learn a lot from he and his friend who spend >10 years on CHINA mainland landscape photography .

 

Overall a place need luck , skill, arrangement, experience , stamina and ect  to get this place photograph …

update 2018 June 28

from 2018 CHINA, HUNAN Photohunters tour

this is a long wait of 1.5 day, finally the moment waiting is come… we actually rush, ran , to this spot but the view keep changing for us another 1 hour ++ think everyone should be have good time here

update 2018 June 24

just got back from 2018 CHINA, HUNAN Photohunters tour

13 photographers with almost all famous brand in the world (absent of LEICA and NIKON) enjoy the boring wait and excitement of sudden misting moment

update 2016 Jan 11

  • a beautiful moment

 

… 佛光亮稀雾 | Misty ROL …

update 2015 Dec 21

  • near YuanJiaJie , I was resting and shooting some bird with 70300 . suddenly I saw clouds building up and I ran back to room and ran for nearer spot for the clouds and sun direction .. and I found this. the shooting spot is very narrow and only one camera allow here
… 腾云驾雾遇佛光 …

 

update 2017 Nov 24

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SONY A7S2 and CANON 5DM3 ISO test

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got SONY A7S2 recently and I am going Penang for a shooting .. so decide have quick test on this new camera …

as usual below is standard setting, and Post Porcessing done on the picture

  1. MANUAL focus, same aperture,
  2. CANON using 2470 F2.8 II at ~55mm
  3. SONY using CZ 55mm F1.8
  4. MANUAL Mode ISO100,200,400,800,1600,3200,6400 (did through 51200 but think my accept level for both ~3200 so I just share up to 6400)
  5. Both Camera use standard ISO reduction
  6. tripod, timer for shooting
  7. AWB
  8. SONY Stabilizer mode OFF
  9. open both with CS6 (SONY use DNG Convertor convert the ARW to DNG and process same way as below)
  10. No Noise reduction at CS6
  11. Save as jpeg direct from ACR without any further processing
  12. to compare same size , resize all picture to 240 Pix per Inch and 4000 at long site

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below is 100% crop for the resize file and click link for actual file view

 

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ISO100 [top SONY A7s2 bottom CANON 5dm3]

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CANON5dm3-ISO100c100

 

ISO200 [top SONY A7s2 bottom CANON 5dm3]

SONYA7s2-ISO200c100

CANON5dm3-ISO200c100

 

 

ISO400 [top SONY A7s2 bottom CANON 5dm3]

SONYA7s2-ISO400c100

CANON5dm3-ISO400c100

 

ISO800 [top SONY A7s2 bottom CANON 5dm3]

SONYA7s2-ISO800c100

CANON5dm3-ISO800c100

 

ISO1600 [top SONY A7s2 bottom CANON 5dm3]

SONYA7s2-ISO1600c100

CANON5dm3-ISO1600c100

 

ISO3200 [top SONY A7s2 bottom CANON 5dm3]

SONYA7s2-ISO3200c100

CANON5dm3-ISO3200c100

 

ISO6400 [top SONY A7s2 bottom CANON 5dm3]

SONYA7s2-ISO6400c100

CANON5dm3-ISO6400c100

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Full Size of pictures

SONYA7s2

ISO100

ISO200

ISO400

ISO800

ISO1600

ISO3200

ISO6400

 

CANON 5dm3

ISO100

ISO200

ISO400

ISO800

ISO1600

ISO3200

ISO6400

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Overall the SONY A7s2 give good ISO performance  .. especially higher than 800 it seem little advance than Canon 5dm3 (before any Noise reduction)…

 

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