Love the first and last shot! Minus 6ºC (not counting wind chill) at the base of Mt Fuji yesterday, but no snow.

rji2goleez wrote:

More of a snowy Minnesota Sunday.

Very nice beach shot, duke.

With the 12-50 kit, cropped.


Flower_mac by J L Smith, on Flickr

Another one I finally got around to processing



At pier's end by J L Smith, on Flickr

No

I do like the first and second shots.

Today with the very little 15mm f/8 body cap lens. It's sharp in the center and soft on the edges, so it's good for a specific look or a snapshot style lens where you want to carry the smallest thing you can on a decent sensor and not have to think about focusing or such. Otherwise it's sort of a fun novelty. I have a feeling I'll mostly use it shooting B&W JPEG for those times I really don't want to think about any of that stuff.

Jordan interesting. It is not a lens that I would have looked at, being in the uk f8 is very restrictive. Yes can see it for street shooting in favorable conditions.

Juju,
That last one is brilliant. If I may, which lens did you use for that one? I like the OOF transition and the texture.

PL25?

^^^^^ completely agree! Julian, your photos are phenomenal man. Great eye and the texture, colors, expressions, moments in your photos are wonderful! Keep inspiring us please

carstenw wrote:
PL25?

First two PL25mm second two Oly 45mm

juju1958 wrote:
carstenw wrote:
PL25?

First two PL25mm second two Oly 45mm

Thanks, that Oly 45mm doesn't cease to surprise me.

Great shots once again Juju, lovely colors!

Two more just playing around, nothing special, the second one is really not good at all but I liked the fire :-)

Well, then again, neither is the first but I like the color red :-P

First one is with a Nikon 50mm F1.2 Ai, handheld @ 1/8 second, IS is working very well here as the poles are sharp.

Wilbus nice.

Crema de Fabes con Currusquinos por _dUkEnUkEm_, en Flickr

juju1958 wrote:
Wilbus could not resist. We live far apart but so much can be similar. Here are some flags that the fishermen use here.


Good! you shouldn't resist!

Yes we do live quite far apart but it seems as if though humans have a weird habit of creating very similar things all over the world even though they may never have met

This gave me a little idea for a new thread, maybe we should do a shoot out and copy each others subjects as closely as we can? Will have to think about it some

The Photographer's Eye: (mine, in this case). Self eye portraits aren't that easy.

OM-D with Olympus 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/9, off camera flash. Unfortunately, the reflection of my eyelashes showed up in the frame, but I need to be able to see the lighting (which I can't on a self portrait) to figure out how to eliminate it and still get texture (I'm sure more direct flash would get rid of it).

Reflection or not this is outstanding! Enough to make me run out and order that 60 Macro!!!

Really looking deep into the eye there, Jordan! I don't think I have ever seen that kind of detail in an eye shot, much less self-taken. Yeah, very difficult to do - I know...

A little freaky, as it looks like your eyes are made out of paper-mache!

Jman13 wrote:
The Photographer's Eye: (mine, in this case). Self eye portraits aren't that easy.

OM-D with Olympus 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/9, off camera flash. Unfortunately, the reflection of my eyelashes showed up in the frame, but I need to be able to see the lighting (which I can't on a self portrait) to figure out how to eliminate it and still get texture (I'm sure more direct flash would get rid of it).

bobbytan wrote:
A little freaky, as it looks like your eyes are made out of paper-mache!


Aren't everyone's?