Marlow Churchyard

These are some shots taken with the MX-1 in Marlow last Sunday (28 Sept - a cloudy afternoon) and processed in PaintShop Pro X6:

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Cheers.
Philip

I'm glad you're enjoying the camera. I took mine out today without a memory card inside... Not for the first time.

Yes, Andrew, it is enjoyable and the tilting screen is helpful in getting shots like the last one here. Even so, for normal shooting I keep lifting the camera up to my eye so still wish it had a viewfinder!

My MX-1 is carried around in a small soft case along with a spare card and an extra fully-charged battery, so I am trying hard to avoid the memory card (and flat battery) problem!

Cheers.
Philip

A very nice survey of this riverside spot, we can almost 'hear' the peacefulness. It's a good range of view points, and all very well exposed and sympathetically processed.

Perhaps the first would have benefited from a slightly wider framing, the steeple looks a little crammed up against the left edge.

I like the through the wall one ... I wondered about the focussing for this, of course you might have been on manual, but If it was autofocus I am curious to know whether the camera automatically went for the centre point, or if it hunted a bit between the wall and distance, our indeed whether you set a specific focus point off to the side?

The low viewpoint on the flowers works very well, shooting although I'd like to see a bit more OOF grass along the bottom, just to add depth. Is it hard to keep the camera steady when you're crouched down so low?

John Riley showed some MX-1 photos recently, all sharp colourful animal pics, which were really very closely focused, so this is clearly a very versatile little machine. Your photographs here have demonstrated even more of that for us .

Thank you for your good response, Nigel.

You could be right about the #1. As the subject of the set was the churchyard, the photos move the viewer closer in, starting with a view of the full width (length?) of it. To get that view, the shot was taken from the bridge. Any further to the left might put some of the bridge structure in the shot - would that be distracting?

#5 is shot through one of the square holes in the tombstone in #4, and focused on the next tombstone - in the centre of the square "frame". Small sensor so that, even at the widest lens aperture, the focus distance gave a long depth of field.

I was pleased with how #6 turned out, so I am encouraged that you also think it works. It made use of the MX-1's tilting screen - the camera was resting on the ground, and the short distance to the flowers, long focal length and widest aperture did give a nice short depth of field in this one. I can't help with the OOF grass, as I didn't include any more in the captured shot!

Thanks again, Nigel. I appreciate you taking your valuable time to comment.

Cheers.
Philip