Melbourne Museum's Monster Revisited!

I got to see Horridus on the opening day. You can see the images I took then in an earlier post, but I was a bit dissatisfied, because I took the wrong lenses. I thought I could photograph it with the 70-200, but it was too long. I took my photos with the wonderful Voigtländer 50mm APO Lanthar, but I wondered what it would look like using the Sony 50mm f1.2 GM. I haven’t had a chance to return to the museum until yesterday. This time I took both APO Lanthars: the 35mm and the 50mm, and the Sony 50 GM.

This image is from the Sony 50mm GM. I deliberately dropped the exposure to eliminate reflection from the walls, and damped the whites and highlights a bit. Not a big edit. Love the resulting separation between the face and the background.

This was shot at f/4 1/25 ISO 5000 - good thing Horridus didn’t move during the shot (IBIS fights shake in my hands, but is no help with subject movement). No noise reduction used, but ISO 5000 isn’t too high, at least not for a modern Sony sensor (amusing when I think back to my earliest digital cameras, where ISO 1600 was quite noisy). This image is not cropped at all - you are seeing it all the way to the edges.

Here’s the image that you can click on to see it larger: