u/Aggressive_Tart6263

I shot my buddy doing some bmx tricks but was struggling to decide between apertures, distance, and trusting C-AF. Besides the portrait I was shooting between f/5.6-f/8 but found I needed to stand far away to have a deeper depth of field. I used a GFX100s II and a Tamron 45mm f/1.8 with the EF fringer adapter.

All images were taken on my 100S II with the fringer GFX to EF mount adapter and edited in Lightroom. What I like most about this lens, besides its sharpness, is the ability to close focus ~16 cm (~6 inches) from the lens to a subject. The damped ring feels great and makes manual focusing a joy. While far from a true macro lens the .29x magnification paired with the gfx sensor allows for more composition options than my gf 50mm f/3.5. Besides #6 all the flowers were no more than 1-2cm wide.

I shoot a lot of landscape and nature photos and find that it's hard to balance exposure of leaves reflecting sunlight. When I try to balance the exposure in post the results tend to come out a little too HDR-ish for my taste. Would a CPL make a big difference here?

There are four versions of each picture

1. Raw + color grading
2. LR DN + color grading
3. DXO Raw + color grading
4. DXO Raw + LR DN + color grading

Image ISO in order

1. 10,000
2. 500
3. 320