Viltrox 85mm f1.8 II NYC Street Photography + FREE PRESETS

In this street photography POV video, we walk around NYC and shoot from day to night with the Viltrox 85mm f1.8 II and Sony A7iii.
An 85mm lens is one of my favorites when it comes to street photography. It has just enough reach for capturing those far moments and great subject isolation for medium to tight shots.
The Viltrox 85mm f1.8 II is very a impressive lens for the price and is quickly becoming one of my favorites. The build, AF, bokeh, and sharpness are all on par with much more expensive lenses.
Don't forget to download the 3 street presets at the link below! Big thanks to Viltrox for partnering with me and making this video possible.
Also, check out my new preset system! It works great for both RAW files from cameras and JPGS from phones. See how it works here: www.azvisuals.com/store
Only the first 100 people to use code "first100" will get 50% off their purchase!
Viltrox 85mm f1.8 II: viltroxstore.com/products/vil...
Presets: bit.ly/3IqyYvh
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[@azvisuals]

Isn't this lens awesome? I loved the way it renders images. Which shot was your favorite?

[@abhinaysrinivasan4767]

This lens is an absolute beast for it's price 🤤🥵

[@azvisuals]

@@abhinaysrinivasan4767 I know right? I just kept getting surprised with the images!

[@abhinaysrinivasan4767]

The Bokeh + sharpness are an absolute menace!

[@mentorsway]

I love this lens as well, especially since the recent updates. Autofocus is really responsive on the A7C. Fav shot was 13:34. I'm a big fan of the cinematic look as well. 👌

[@irosefilmsllc]

I can’t decide between this or the samyang 1.4 rf

[@Mrkonc]

Love watching POV street photography videos, they're super inspiring and you have a great eye for it. Fantastic images!

[@gmsdesigns1]

Alex, Great work on this video. I especially appreciated your talking about your thinking when framing and composing a particular shot. Thanks. Looking forward to more of your work Gerry

[@anakLA]

Great video man. Looking forward to visiting NY next month!

[@giannhsseit4146]

Great shots mate keep going! thanks a lot for the presets🙏

[@SheldonD7878]

Wow that's a great video, thank you. My favorite was the street scene with the the columns and the low light. You really hooked it up! Nice!

[@azvisuals]

Thanks man! Appreciate it ☺️

[@Alexander0189]

Brilliant video man, can’t wait to get mine in a couple days!! Loved your shots.

[@Lennart1995]

Man, this city is like a candy store for street photography.

[@gabrielcj9311]

I recently bought a sony a6000 as my first camera and will soon be taking a trip to New York. Your videos inspire me a lot, I can't wait to go to the streets of New York and take some photos. Amazing work, congratulations from Portugal! 🇵🇹

[@azvisuals]

That is awesome! hope you enjoy. Def tag me on IG @az.visuals i'd love to see your work

[@gabrielcj9311]

@@azvisuals I will, thank you very much!

[@verumregis5015]

Hi Alex, Love your videos man. Keep it up!

[@azvisuals]

Thanks for the support!

[@thomasturberville1866]

Nice! Somebody who really gets how to frame. Going to get this lens based on this video. Thanks!

[@azvisuals]

Appreciate it! It's a great budget option

[@041-ibadurrahmana6]

I learn a lot about composition from u ❤️❤️❤️

[@azvisuals]

Appreciate that! Thanks for watching

[@bdcr38]

the best street video ive ever seen

[@Filipeairesdesign]

great video, buddy!

[@nancyk9475]

Great video! I’m a Nikon Z6ii shooter and the Viltrox line of lenses look like a great alternative and at about 1/2 the cost. I’m not a portrait shooter, but thinking about this lens

[@marcelo1000]

Hey Alex. Amazing video, amazing pictures. Thanks for the preset, by the way. But right from the camera the photos are really cool. I like to make street photography from a distance like you did on the video and the lens give sharp image with meautiful bokeh. I was in doubt do buy this one or the 50-250mm for my nikon but this is f4.5/6.3.

[@Frameable]

nice video dude

[@hrcroberto]

Very nice!

[@williamtorres3333]

Amazing POV! Thanks for the presets I can't wait to try it out. Can you make video comparing sony 85 vs Viltrox 85?

[@azvisuals]

Thanks! Hope you like them. I don't have the Sony 85 to compare against but both should have similar image quality so it really depends on price

[@nakponlok1888]

Thank for free preset

[@IamAW]

Yeees, I've been waiting for another pov! And with the 85, I recently got the Samyang 85mm 1.4, and I fucking love it.

[@azvisuals]

Oh nice! I will need to try that one day. I hear it also has really good IQ for the a great price

[@gaston_streetph]

Muchas gracias Alex ....desde Argentina

[@feydanmedia]

7:33 that was my favourite shot!

[@marcusviniciusdecarvalhoes6373]

Great job! Is there a 2x teleconverter that can be used in this set? Without losing autofocus?

[@johnnguyen-xt9nd]

Thankyou

[@Almi6hty]

Never used that lens but the focal length is definitely my favorite and go to focal length. I love my sigma 85 1.4 art dgdn on my Sony a7iii

[@azvisuals]

Nice! That can get pretty heavy when walking around for a few hours

[@Almi6hty]

@@azvisuals believe it or not it’s really not that bad. I think the old 85 art was heavier then the DGDN model. The longest I carried it was 4hours and had no issues with the weight

[@azvisuals]

@@Almi6hty oh that's good to know! I always wanted an 85 1.4 but the weight was the main factor. I'll have to look into it more

[@damianwojcikiewicz3951]

Good to see you on KZbin. Do you plan to make POV Photography vids with life sounds in the background (cars, people talking, wind blowing) without chill music? I like to watch these kind of vids and see how pics look like before and after.

[@Sally32669]

I feel like in NYC this would make for a very loud and jarring video 😅

[@damianwojcikiewicz3951]

@@Sally32669 Pierre Lambert vids don’t have a loud sounds, just only relaxing sounds that I like. It’s possible to do it but yeah there’s very loud 😂

[@boikagaming78]

Tq💖✨

[@Maxhuertas]

Are you gonna make more pov videos?

[@karlheinzmuller4649]

Hope you‘ll do some landscape photography sometime since you can teach so well and I‘m out of any city.

[@azvisuals]

Thanks! It's been hard to travel but I'll def try to do some! I love landscape photography too

[@karlheinzmuller4649]

@@azvisuals looking forward to it! Learned a lot and your videos are the most useful to me of all photo KZbinrs I've seen.

[@azvisuals]

@@karlheinzmuller4649 thanks so much! That means a lot ☺️

[@Sally32669]

Have you checked out the Iceland minimal landscape video? That was a great landscapes video!

[@hdwblade]

Are there presets in filters like this for affinity photo?

[@MMMRK1111]

Does the 5 axis stabilization of camera works on this lens?

[@billylacsina9421]

I'm trying to get your presets i couldn't find it ..

[@IvanRayBalais]

not sure if link is broken it can't be reached :(

[@michellopes9750]

I'm suffering here with a A7S II + Viltrox 85mm II. Can't focus properly in low apertures PS: Last firmware on both

[@carlitosamar1252]

presets pleasee... thanks

[@danielfulop]

what's the function of the steam pipe?

[@mikeenslin3009]

a lot of heating in new york is still with steam i think

[@rboydphotography]

just came from watching a video you did in early 2020 with the a7RIV and an 85mm with all the heavy crops and honestly it doesn't feel like the content has changed much albeit less cropping. there's so much background noise in the mic during the narration that you can tell every time the audio was cut which just kills it for me. I get that audio can be bad during a walk about for obvious reasons, but a narration back at your desk shouldn't have those issues. have you checked the mic is properly calibrated?

[@azvisuals]

Thanks for your feedback! I love cropping especially with all the resolution of the a7r. Im using a few different mics so I'll check the settings and try to get cleaner audio

[@rboydphotography]

@@azvisuals good resources to check would be various audio engineers who explain all the factors you need to consider for clean audio. there's quite a few good ones on KZbin so it won't cost you anything and you should be able to quickly figure out why you have the noise occurring. I believe Parker Walbeck did a video 2 months ago comparing a cheap mic to an expensive one and showed how both can sound terrible or really good depending on whether you know how to set them up properly, worth watching to see what I mean. as for cropping, I get that being able to crop in post can improve the composition of a photo and is a good "learning experience", but it's no replacement for getting it right in person as you have been doing more of lately. in the 2020 video I saw that you took a photo across 2 streets in a junction, didn't like the composition with the first crop so just cropped in more. with a stationary subject like a moving van and people unloading boxes, you had plenty of time to instead cross the road and fill your frame more with the truck and at the same time moving undesirable objects further out of the frame. personally I find that a lot of people who watch POVs do so because they want to learn how to take similar photo's and what sort of things they need to look out for in their surroundings and unfortunately what I saw mostly in yours is "ignore the positioning, it can be fixed by crop later". between 2 similar photo's the one shot at 24MP from the correct location will look much better than one taken from a 40-60MP camera in the wrong position and then cropped down to fix the composition. megapixel count is not the most important part of a camera, but if you actively throw them away you aren't making best use of the full sensor. typically we use a certain lens for its field of view, but when you heavily crop out the majority of that field, its almost irrelevant which lens you have because the final image no longer has that characteristic look. same for the settings, even if someone matches your settings they won't get the same image because its the result of your crop, not the settings in camera. It feels just a bit as if you were relying on the Megapixel count of the a7R as a crutch for your photography. Overall however, just a few tweaks and changes and I could see you doubling your subscribers and getting many more daily views on average so don't stop what you do.

[@Sally32669]

I think he does a pretty good job showing us how moving around can get you different frames like at 8:33 where he literally says "instead, I took a few steps away..." I appreciate seeing the edits where a photo can be saved or have a different vibe just from trying different crops. It's great for hobbyists to see that you don't have to "get it right the first time."

[@rboydphotography]

@@Sally32669 I’m not being contradictory for the sake of it and completely intend to be constructive with my criticism, I hope you can appreciate that you aren't accounting for the situation. we should just be able to watch him move about and work the shot, not be told that he is doing so, “show don’t tell” applies even more to video than it does books, if he doesn't move enough for us to notice without being told, then it can't be said that he changed the frame by any significant degree. Alex also uses a camera with 61Megapixels, so he can 'afford' heavy handed crops because the detail is still there in pixel count, the typical hobbyist has just 20-24Megapixels to work with, that kind of cropping simply isn't an option. I watched 2 POVs taken at very different times, expecting to see a different video, the fact the content felt the same suggests that we aren’t following the journey of someone who is continuously refining their skills, for all we knew the videos could have been recorded days apart. there is no point providing the camera settings used for any given photo to a ‘hobbyist’, photography is situation dependant and those settings won't get you the same shot at your location, so for what reason do you need to know them?. your typical hobbyist will take a couple snapshots while out and like nearly all of them however they turn out, they won't even watch youtube content on the topic. nobody that does street photography expects to "get it right the first time", the perfect photo simply doesn’t exist. you will always need to fix something, the point is about doing as little as possible after the fact. if you were aiming to be a product photographer however, if you can't get the photo framed right in camera then you may as well change professions because you have full control over the situation and still didn't get it, that's a very different scenario for the quote to be relevant. "a few steps" works for getting things that are messy or ruining your shot, out of the frame, but is for when the framing and composition is nearly there in the first place. for chance encounters or when physical barriers block your path, moderate cropping is a valid method to get the intended shot, but when you are shooting stationary/immobile subjects you can afford to take more time than just a few steps to get the shot which in the case I was referring, meant crossing the corner of 2 streets, this would not only get the framing right in camera, it could result in a better overall exposure. my point is you don't shoot with a 20mm lens to get everything in the frame and then crop it down to the field of view of a 50mm lens and say you got the shot, telling people you used a 20mm lens at f/x.x for 1/y shutter speed. It results in people who don’t know better, second guessing why their photo’s look nothing like what they saw in the videos and more often than not they get demotivated and quit. my post other than sharing a personal opinion was about drawing attention to the audio which is far more important for a youtube channel that posts content aimed at immersion, the background noise is very disturbing when you listen with headphones, but can potentially be an easy fix that ups the quality of content greatly which can result in Alex seeing better retention, likes and subscriptions. I am by no means saying "omg your horrific, get out, get out!?" LOL