Stromboli Volcano

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Stromboli Volcano 

I post this not because it's technically great - it isn't - but because it illustrates that the A7Riii can get a decent photo where lesser cameras cannot. This is Stromboli volcano, Sicily, Italy. I took this handheld from the deck of a small cruise ship (50 passenger). Many others were out there with various cameras (and iPads!), but I was the only one who came away with a usable picture (after I brought out the shadows in Lightroom CC for iPad, though this version was processed with DxO Photo Lab.)

I had initially been using a Platypod strapped to the deck railing, but we had sailed far enough past that I couldn't get the right angle so I just handheld it. Sony 24-105 G f4 at 1/4 second, ISO6400. This is a close crop, but thanks to the 42MP image it still looks good. If you look at it closely you'll see the effect of camera shake, but otherwise it is quite nice. I won a shipboard contest with it, and many of my fellow passengers asked me for a copy.

Edited June 15, 2018 by holmes4