Astaroth

I really love prime lenses! I’ve used a 14mm for a while for landscapes/indoors and an 85mm for portraits. Now, I’m very happy with my Viltrox AF 85mm F1.4 Pro Full-Frame. This picture was taken with it this weekend at the medieval fair in Ávila (Spain).

Beautiful portrait! I was seriously considering longer focal lengths, such as 105mm, for portraits, but I think that in most situations I need to be closer.

Thank you so much, Rob :)! I’ve missed you guys too! The truth is that the day-to-day pace of life sometimes makes it difficult for me to devote as much time as I’d like to the things I enjoy. I’ve had periods when I’ve neglected photography a bit, although I’ve been feeling motivated again for a while now, especially after upgrading my gear. I’v…[Read more]

Thanks @tersha :)! I read a lot about it… and then I forgot everything and took pictures as best I could, haha.

Thanks so much, @michaelnowak :)! The original images were almost black and white. I tried to enhance the colours using a lot of imagination (I’m also colourblind). Yes, I was astonished when I saw the coronal ejections and sunspots for the first time!

Thank you so much @retiredgrunt ! Truth be told, it was a great experience, although I’m afraid I missed out on the moment a bit by focusing so much on the camera.

Thanks @annehornsby ! This was the first eclipse in Spain in a century :)! Next summer we’ll have another in the south, but this first one was visible from the city where I live 🙂

Thanks @robertapple ! It was my first total eclipse, I wasn’t really sure what I was doing, but in the end I think they turned out not too bad

Wow! I love the composition in these ones, and the place is stunning. I made some attempts this weekend, but the place where I was working was too sunny during the day to avoid using an ND filter…

I just took two pictures last night that might fit here. Sunset from the hills of Alcalá. Alcalá’s hills are a large natural area close to the city, and from its tallest hill (Ecce Homo), you can see how nature gives way to the urban landscape.

Oh! What a nice little friend :)! I love how it’s looking at the camera! And the color contrast between the human and the natural.

Thank you! For me, it was shocking to come across something like this on an arid path I had traveled so many times…

I’m afraid I don’t have much to contribute to this conversation: I see both as very similar… but I’m colorblind xD…

Thanks a lot for the tips :)!

Really :(? I was referring to transportability, not safety.

Here (in Spain, specifically in Madrid), public transport is quite safe and not bad… but it often requires making several connections, long travel times, a lot of planning, and walking for a while with heavy gear if you want to get to beautiful locations… I’m getting too old for this…[Read more]

My new lens is a Nikkor 16-35mm (77mm diameter). I’m using it on a full-frame camera (Nikon D810). One of the things that made me buy it (while I still have my 14mm) is the possibility of using threaded filters.

Going to locations with this and without a car is crazy:

Thanks :)! I took the picture for the cloud, but afterwards I saw that everything was more interesting flipped :)…

Thanks a lot, @loki !

All of these are awesome pictures. I thought ND filters were much more necessary for all these shots during daylight, but now I see some of them are possible without any filters.

I like to emphasize the silk effect with longer exposures, but I’ve heard from several photographers about finding a middle point to not lose…[Read more]

Thanks :)!