MichaD wrote:
Mescalamba: very nice still life, especially like the first one
Bif: 1 & 3 are great
My definitive flower lens has to be the CV125, sorry for the amount, couldn't decide:
I saw those pictures and thought: that must be the CV125! Very typical pure colours. The MP100 has more character and contrast, but the Voigtländer has the colours.
U.C. wrote:
I saw those pictures and thought: that must be the CV125! Very typical pure colours. The MP100 has more character and contrast, but the Voigtländer has the colours.
I'll need to try out the MP100 some day. Was always put off by the CA of it but it's probably not such an issue as the forums might suggest. I like the 50MP although you need to be a lot more cautious with your backgrounds. You can throw pretty much anything at the CV125 and it will provide smooth bokeh, which obviously also makes it a tad bland. The new 2/135 APO might be worth trying as well but 4:1 just isn't enough for flowers.
Contax N 28-80mm, [email protected] macro mode on SD1 Merrill Iso 400 1/200s, flash .This bucket resides in the middle of dark bushes, so flash was applied.
mco_970 wrote:
Booo. I clipped the whites just a little bit. Still like the shot, tho.
5D2 + OM21
Very nice. Flowers in full sunshine are often very tricky to expose properly, esp. if the surrounding scene has a wide DR. You could have protected the highlights on the white petals more but at the expense of the shadows and the blue sky would have become grainier, etc... Basically you have to bracket and blend exposures to get an optimum result.
Thanks all. Bracketing would have been tough on that day - wind was kind of whipping them pell mell. Just a touch of underexp. would have worked, maybe...
Mat - really like your white coneflowers! Gorgeous bokeh.
these two are taken with the Nex7 and the ZM 50 1.5 wide open with a helicoid adaptor. Funny little lens but i like it, very difficult to take a sharp pic wide open, it has a very dreamy ( motion blur ) look but stopped down it gets very sharp!
