A few weeks ago while staying in Raleigh, I decided to visit a Japanese Botanical Garden and took my Sony A7r along with a Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f1.5. I spent about 20 minutes trying to get an extreme angle on this Japanese Sculpture and had to lay on the sidewalk to achieve this perspective. Overall I’m and pretty happy with this shot.

I had recently discovered how powerful some of the filters were in the camera. When taking black and white photographs with the A7r, the camera must be set to take jpeg photos instead of raw, however the quality is still there since the camera takes 3 consecutive exposures and layers them together as if it was an HDR. I love this ability with the A7r because it has really opened my I eyes when photographing because I can see the world in black and white. I see so many more opportunities for photos that I otherwise would not have seen. What’s also great about the in-camera b&w function is that the tones are very smooth and the performance of dynamic range is fantastic. In Lightroom I find myself that with some photos I hardly have to touch them. With this photo, the only outside adjustments was sharpening and some added vignetting in Lightroom.