Mark, this one stands out for me, good eye!

MarkdV wrote:
leighton w wrote:
a.RodriguezPix wrote:
Still trying to come up with something on these pictures! I surely do need more knowledge, and a darn tripod!! Why do I insist on handheld shots with an 85mm 1.4 wide open manual lens!?



Americo, A tripod would be useful at these aperture ranges in this low light.

One other thought, The gigantic watermark across the middle of your image really distracts from it. To my mind, it would look nicer if it were smaller and down in the corner. Just my 2 cents.

Hi Americo,

I agree with Leighton on his points, but in this image I like the crazy lights reflecting around in the decanter to the left of the image (and to a slightly lesser extent the wine glass), maybe you could try playing around with this a bit?

Kind regards,
Mark.

Thanks, yeah, i have been trying many areas, however, i have yet to share them all for lack of different composition I did these in less than an hours time basically and on a whim! I have been going back to this concept as well often however! I really enjoy using my lens bokeh ability, and natural light to achieve these! thanks again, and happy photography! -Americo.Rodriguez

45.8 degrees - the hottest day on record! and Mark you thought I was whinging over nothing...........

ben


dawn - nikon 24mm PCE by benmorgan28, on Flickr


dawn - nikon 24mm PCE by benmorgan28, on Flickr

bruni wrote:
MarkdV wrote:

Ben, very sorry to hear about the terrible heat. Really unbelievably sorry. Just for you here is the fabulous weather we are enjoying here and thinking how glad we are that we go outside and get icicles in our beards rather than having the curse of warmth.


Mark - love the night snow pics.

And I appreciate the sarcasm too. I love the heat - but today is ridiculous. I went out and took dawn pics - by 9 o'clock it became impossible - the sweat was fogging up the viewfinder and I was dripping all over the lenses. It's 10.30 now - had to come home to get out of the heat. They reckon it will climb to 43 by the middle of the day - that's 109 degrees - so yeah, I'm loving the snow shots.

ben

43 degrees? That's going from rediculous to downright dangerous. I hope you are taking care in that heat.

I cannot believe there are some crazies playing tennis in that temperatures.

Kind regards,
Mark.

Jose - more outstanding birds. Wow!

Georg - the theatre image shows off the benefits of PC perfectly - great pic

Reagan - good news. I see a D600 in your future!

Mark, you REALLY need to clean your sensor! LOve the set BTW.

georgms wrote:
Played a bit more with the PC 28/3.5 - it's for sure not the ideal lens for hand-held shots.
Removing the distortion can be tricky. Here's a shot from today - the local theatre is in need of paint:


Volkstheater-Fassade von georgsfoto auf Flickr
at full shift like above the corners are pretty weak at f/8 - have to try f/11 or even /16 from a tripod...

Like Scott said, wonderfully sharp! I'm having a hard time picturing what this looked like BEFORE the lens correction. Could you provide a before and after the next time you capture something like this?

jhinkey wrote:
As I've tried to do the last two years I've collected up almost all my images taken with my MF Nikkors in 2012 and put them into one place:

http://hinkey.zenfolio.com/p743018635

Windows or something clobbered some of the jpgs for some reason so some of them are not as sharp as they really are.

Someone really needs to take all the amazing photos from this thread and put them all in one place sortable by date, place, and owner.

John



Sounds to me you that you just volunteered! Love your "best of 2012" album.

bruni wrote:
45.8 degrees - the hottest day on record! and Mark you thought I was whinging over nothing...........

ben


dawn - nikon 24mm PCE by benmorgan28, on Flickr


dawn - nikon 24mm PCE by benmorgan28, on Flickr

Ben, I really like both of these. Perhaps you ought to pick one and enter in the monthly assignment. http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/board/40

Ben, bummer on the heat. I don't do well in heat, either. When my furnace went out, I figured that was a good time to have the a/c finally replaced too, since it broke in 1997, much cheaper to do them together

Reagan, Five years? not ten years? Thumbs up on the two bridge shots.

Reagan wrote:
Still alive and home from the hospital good for another 5 years
My wife seems a little upset that the first thing I do is get on FM

Bridge in the daylight
and a little rust
Got to give the D600 back tomorrow

Reagan

That's a lot of babies on the ground. Bummer on having to replace the compressor, but at least it picked winter time to do it and not the summer when that would have been full of veggies.

leighton w wrote:
Well lambing is ALMOST done, we Have 3 ewes left to lamb and we have 23 lambs on the ground.

Not only are we in the midst of lambing, our walk-in cooler where we store all of our vegetables for sale every week gave up the ghost! The compressor seen in this first shot went bad. So instead of paying a huge repair bill to fix it, I decided to buy another CoolBot to replace it. It's a great little invention that allows you to run a standard window air-conditioner below what it's normally capable of. It will allow it to cool down to anywhere you set it, which for us, is normally 40F. We had one in our big reefer unit which I showed y'all last year and they work great. If the AC goes out, you just run to Home Depot and get another one. Not only that, it's a LOT easier on the electric bill.



Mark, love the perspective on the traffic signal shot. Don't have any snow left on the ground here, except those piles down by the school parking garage.

MarkdV wrote:

Ben, very sorry to hear about the terrible heat. Really unbelievably sorry. Just for you here is the fabulous weather we are enjoying here and thinking how glad we are that we go outside and get icicles in our beards rather than having the curse of warmth.

Looked out the front door last night before I was heading to bed, and that was a mistake... the moon was sitting low, and setting over my neighbor's house, so I grabbed the V1 and the 400 f/5.6 and the FT1 from whence they'd been scattered.

Thanks Ronny, Chuong, Leighton, Georg, Jeff and Peter.

Laura, nice moon captures with your mighty 1080mm telephoto;

Georg, crisp and sharp archtectural B&W shot.

NightOwl Cat wrote:

That's a lot of babies on the ground. Bummer on having to replace the compressor, but at least it picked winter time to do it and not the summer when that would have been full of veggies.



Yea, we have just 2 more ewes to go! It really was a bummer about the compressor, even this time of year, we sell veggies year round. Fortunately, we took this week off because of lambing.

I love your moon shots. I like moon shots better when it's NOT a full moon.

Perhaps you guys can be interested in this webpage I just have found right now:
http://www.sassmannshausen.eu/lenses.html
There are several interesting comments and sample shots of MF Nikkors.

John, at least for the sample copies of the guy in that site, the 135/3.5 is better evaluated than the 135/2.8.

jhinkey wrote:
As I've tried to do the last two years I've collected up almost all my images taken with my MF Nikkors in 2012 and put them into one place:

http://hinkey.zenfolio.com/p743018635

Windows or something clobbered some of the jpgs for some reason so some of them are not as sharp as they really are.

Someone really needs to take all the amazing photos from this thread and put them all in one place sortable by date, place, and owner.

John



Great idea, and congrats on your splendid collection of images!

asiostygius wrote:
Perhaps you guys can be interested in this webpage I just have found right now:
http://www.sassmannshausen.eu/lenses.html
There are several interesting comments and sample shots of MF Nikkors.

John, at least for the sample copies of the guy in that site, the 135/3.5 is better evaluated than the 135/2.8.

Thanks Jose, another good reference site.

MarkdV wrote: Ben, very sorry to hear about the terrible heat. Really unbelievably sorry. Just for you here is the fabulous weather we are enjoying here and thinking how glad we are that we go outside and get icicles in our beards rather than having the curse of warmth.

bruni wrote:
45.8 degrees - the hottest day on record! and Mark you thought I was whinging over nothing...........

ben

just the day you want to spend surrounded by large slabs of heated concrete

leighton w wrote:
Mark, you REALLY need to clean your sensor! LOve the set BTW.

Yes, this shot is great, Mark.