Thanks Ben And Reagan
Everything for image Ben One has to look good to the Facebook pictures;-)

frezeiss - love the green. Looks very warm. Jealous!

bruni - Very interesting composition. I like it.

Ronny - Your portraits are quite amazing !

Ant - LOVE the 'close encounter of the third kind' shot. Oops, that shows my age eh !

ZF21 f8


Vignette was added in post. I screwed up as I had ND glad filter sideway, added gradient to balance both sides.

^^ love the mood

Ben, enjoyed the 2nd photo ("thursday - zeiss 100MP")





Quite rare for me to be limited by camera's maximum shutter speed, but at two first photos I needed to use 1/8000s.

Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/85 @ f/2.5, 1/8000s, 5DmkII


Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/85 @ f/2.2, 1/8000s, 5DmkII


Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/85 @ f/2.8, 1/5000s, 5DmkII


Samuli

Thank you Mike!

Samuli - As alwyas, beautiful works. Love your use of 2.x DOF. Composition of the last one is superb.

Ronny, I prefer the 2ns shot..looks more natural to me

Luka, I see the right is darker than the left side? but i do still enjoy the shot. Also jealous of the snow..haha

Back to the beach.. ZF.21 & D700.

Mike -- nice florals. I prefer #3 and #4.

Ant -- intriguing facial expressions in those photos. The guy in #2 is what I looked like when I got the bill for my 35 1.4. On a side note: I was deep in to some archived thread about a lens, and you made a comment of how you would like to use it for street photography...someone responded to you with "You need to learn something about street photography...you can't use that lens for street photography," and proceeded to lecture you on how street photography is properly done. That gave me a chuckle.

Freziess -- great tropical greens! Thanks for whisking me away for a momentary micro-vacation to the tropics.

100MP

C/Y 50mm 1.7 @ 2.8

your age luka, you are just lucky that there are no age limits here and that little boys that like to have fun are allowed.

user, the 35/1.4 ...its just sticks in my side. I thought I liked the 25 more but it was masked by the fun I already have with the 35/2 and I devalued the 35/1.4 because I already have the FL. I imagine using the 35/1.4 with film and I'm smitten by the idea. The D800, the 135apo and news of an oversized 28/1.4 all stopped me in my tracks but I think I'm back on plan now and dont see how I can resist it any longer.

another one from that series ...

where is Z? ...Z! Z!, you'll never guess.

My pedigree on one side is well documented and my mother carries a pic in her purse of a tomb in westminster abbey (like a lizard saying it was once a dinosaur, I tell her) but it turns out I'm a frog, a Normandie frog.

Hows that ...
It also turns out that my name is not my name ...but a really bad mis-translation.

So brother Z ...(grin, but in an arrogant French way)

un fourmi

Frezeiss - I know, my first attempt, I overdid adding vignette, now I went a bit too under
Very nice beach shot and waves.

user222 wrote:
Ant -- intriguing facial expressions in those photos. The guy in #2 is what I looked like when I got the bill for my 35 1.4. On a side note: I was deep in to some archived thread about a lens, and you made a comment of how you would like to use it for street photography...someone responded to you with "You need to learn something about street photography...you can't use that lens for street photography," and proceeded to lecture you on how street photography is properly done. That gave me a chuckle.


Japanese saying is 'teaching Buddha a buddhist literature' for something like this.

Nice mushroom.

OneAnt wrote:
your age luka, you are just lucky that there are no age limits here and that little boys that like to have fun are allowed.


Yup. No shooting age limit is a good thing.

OneAnt wrote:
another one from that series ...


It keeps getting better. More more

akul wrote: Japanese saying is 'teaching Buddha a buddhist literature' for something like this.

Exactly.

ZE 2/25 color check, testing 1, 2, check.

ZE 100MP

Thanks
Great shot Luka Ant user222 and tccin3d


Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/21 ZF 2 by Ronny Olsson, on Flickr

user222 wrote:
akul wrote: Japanese saying is 'teaching Buddha a buddhist literature' for something like this.

Exactly.

ZE 2/25 color check, testing 1, 2, check.

Great shot, Ronny! I always wonder how you managed to pin the focus with manual lenses. Care to share your tips?

Btw, 5DII with 50mm Planar 1.4 wide open

A man and the sea by reza_arya, on Flickr

Two shots of northern light with D800 + Zeiss 21/2.8. Both taken at a recent trip to Lofoten, Norway.