Micheal, I have really liked some of your work in this thread and Leica R-thread. E.g. Sonnar 100 landscape shot and Distagon 21 shot. Typically I don't like ND grad filters since usually some spot of photo ends up too dark and just looks weird, however this photo I did find very good. However I did not like the other ND grad shot since the cliff on right is way too dark in order the photo to look realistic.
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Decided to go shooting today with some lenses I have not shoot anything for while, few photos shoot with Contax S-Planar T* 1:2.8 f=60mm lens, above thumbnail photos EXIF info is link to bigger version.
FlyPenFly wrote:
nice samuli, is that the macro lens?
Thanks. Yes it's the macro lens - I'm not sure is the official name "Contax Makro-Planar T* 2.8/60" or "Contax S-Planar T* 2.8/60". It says "S-Planar" in the lens. Hmmm, checked from Zeiss and correct naming seems to be "Makro-Planar", at least on the PDF: http://www.zeissimages.com/mtf/cy/Makro-Planar2.8_60mm_e.pdf
I have shoot long time with ZE lenses and today went to shoot with 60mm S-Planar and Leica 80-200, tomorrow maybe 100mm Sonnar and Leica 90/2.8. Fun to "find" again the old lenses and their special rendering.
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Well this is image thread so I must post some pictures as well (me and my stupid principles...) - please click thumbnails to open bigger version of photos:
Austria - Gloggnitz (not sure about location name, if you are really interested EXIF has GPS coordinates...) - Contax Distagon T* 2.8/25 @ f/5.6, 1/200s, ISO 100
Austria - Spital am Semmering (not sure about location name, if you are really interested EXIF has GPS coordinates...) - Contax Distagon T* 2.8/25 @ f/8, HDR, ISO 400
My rental car; Ford Fiesta. Highly not recommended for Austria, Northern Italy, Switzerland etc. where hills are steeper and longer than the ones in Netherland - Contax Distagon T* 2.8/25 @ f/8, HDR, ISO 400
mpmendenhall: the post right after my reply is also good. It looks natural and nice. The small places where you have dark edge transitions do not bother me. Nice
Carsten: Glad to see you post some pics. Both those really get "in" to my brain, which is nice in a way
Morfeus: Same as others said: very good portraits. Like the 1st one the most.
Samuli: The first two pictures in this page both scream 3D to me. You almost feel like touching and stroking the leaves in the 2nd.
In your second set, I like the first and last. Very nice. My own personal interpretation of #1 would be to compose it in such a way that the foreground tree on the right is smaller and lower if possible. Another option would be to "skip" the tree completely and then just use the undulating hills [dipping downwards] as the foreground element. That would make for a breathtaking pano crop .
Either way, the first scene reminds me everything about breathtaking Austrian landscapes that I've seen and love so much.Classic!
FlyPenFly wrote:
This is not a great photo but I just wanted to show the 3D pop effect going on here with objects completely in focus.
Again, this is not an example of a good photo, I plan to reshoot this subject with better compositions but just something I noticed because we were talking about this earlier.
It pops out almost laser like, the pole in the middle.
This is on a Sony A850 with the Zeiss ZF.2 21mm F2.8
carstenw wrote:
Ooh, very nice! Hans-Balushek-Park? The boke is a little wild in places. Is that typical of this lens?
Thanks, and you are right again with your location guess. The bokeh with this lens is typically very nice. At f3.5 and with this kind of difficult background I would expect few lenses to produce a significantly more smooth or wild bokeh - at least in the original; I just looked up the pp-procedure and I added a lot of contrast in the bokeh...
carstenw wrote:
True, these are tough conditions, but there is a significant amount of nisen-boke, i.e. double lines, which is only characteristic of some lenses.
I agree, the lens shows here a form of nisen-bokeh, depending on the distance to the branches with more or less harsh lines. In the original bokeh (see here) it is less pronounced, but clearly there. Interesting, because I haven't noticed it so far in other pictures from this lens or haven't found it distracting at least, whereas I didn't liked nisen-bokeh in some Olympus lenses at all.
