Great shot your top of Ritz Carlton, Carsten. Funny, I have just taken the same building, but the whole of it. My Zeiss was ........ right besides the shooting lens in my camera bag!
I've taken the picture with the unfamed Nikkor AF-S 16-35mm. I hope I'm allowed to show it just to compare, even if taken with the wrong lens. If not, I will take it out again.
The problem was: My shortest Zeiss is the 35, which was too long for the shot.
The onions are pinkish-rusty red and the table is black Very nice shot. What are you using for lights? Your Ritz shot is also very nice, I don't think I have ever stood exactly where you took it from! Nice angle.
Morfeus - Your portraits are just amazing. Superb lighting and composition
feto - nice color
carsten - Wow, you are on a roll. Great serieis with 85. I really like these shots. 85's rendition is very pretty. Even at 1.4, the paint bucket, and the sawhorse, I don't notice any haze. Textures are rendered quite pleasing. Probably shot with the right lighting for shooting at 1.4. And at 5.6 the manhole and pebbles are bitingly sharp. Distance shot from Potsdamer Platz, shows great detail and contrast. I really like that pov as well. Few questions. How often do you notice haze ? How about focus shift ?
100 MP trick shot. Certainly is interesting. I can't quite figure out. Building must be a triangular shaped building ? The interior wall suggests it meets the exterior wall in an acute angle. What makes me dizzy is the windows. How can they open? Especially the top one. It looks like it would hit the interior wall if it is hinged at bottom.
Vincent - great shot of the same building Carsten took. I really like the pavillion at bottom. It is very Mies. Color rendition between 85 shot and Nikon shot are very different, but they also are shot under different lightng. Beautiful still life. Black is very black, like enamel balck. Very nice
Ulff - Beautiful shot from Kyoto. Which temple was it, if I may ask ?
Thanks, Ulff and Luka. I don't notice haze often, since I mostly shoot much closer than that. On this shot there was none, which was the main reason that I made it. Normally I don't make such shots at all. I don't notice focus shift as such, but when I feel that my photos are turning out well, I carefully check focus and reshoot until it is right. With good light, this isn't so often, but as soon as it is overcast and a little dim, the rate goes up dramatically. I feel that it belongs to the game to check focus if you want top-notch shots. For better or for worse, the days where everything was easy to focus right are over.
akul, I think it was the Eikan-do temple (or nearby) - in the east of Kyoto, at the end of the philosophers path. Next weekend I will have a look at the temples in the west of Kyoto and the golden pavilion. Have you been in Kyoto?
Carsten - "the days where everything was easy to focus right are over. " Ha ha, I think I can relate to that. Many of the 'Good' from two years ago are more like 'ok' now. Keep trying to raise the bar, so to speak.
Ulff - Yes, a couple of times. I grew up in Japan ( Tokyo however ), so I visited as part of school trips, trip with friends, but never appreciated its beauty enough. Needed to grow up a bit for it. I love Kyoto more as an adult. It is a bit too far to visit often, but I'd love to go there again. I enjoyed the philosophers path very much. Eikando, I checked on Google, and obviously, I missed that temple when I was there. It was during winter, although beautiful, we ( my wife and I ) did not feel we could make every stop at every beautiful temples, it was getting a bit cold. I enjoyed Ginkakuji temple at the end of philospher's path. Zen gardens are just absolutely stunning. My all time favorite is Ryoanji temple. My all time 'wish list' is Katsura Rikyu ( I can never get appointment and make a plan to go there. It is just impossible ) I believe Ryoanji is near by Kinkau ji temple ( golden pavaillion ), if you have not been there, I highly recommend it.
