Saw the storm of a lifetime yesterday near Strasburg, Colorado. I've been chasing for 16 years and have never seen anything like it. Beautiful corkscrew tornado that stayed in a field and hit nothing and injured no one. Wind was calm and the birds were chirping.
^Wow, that must have been quite an experience. Great set!
Grenache wrote:
HelenaN, I love your BW shots prior page with the CY 50/1.7. That was my first alt lens roughly 12 years ago, and it was a lot of fun. I loved the 3D character of it and the impressionistic look of the bokeh if you get the subject to background separation just right, like in your horse image. At the time, I was on a cropped camera body that I think did not let the full lens character shine. Its slightly larger brother, the f/1.4 is not quite as sharp but has a more buttery bokeh...it all depends on what you seek. The f/1.4s have dropped about 50% in price over the last few years. They used to be about $550 and are now often available for $300. I noticed more flare with the f/1.4 than the f/1.7, so the one you have likely is better for landscapes and such, but portraits and closer work are perhaps nicer with the f/1.4. I should have held on to both of those, as they each have really special character.
Speaking of great 50s... I have had this Minolta 58/1.2 longer than any other lens I own. I still love the way it renders at any distance, but I do not use it nearly enough.
Thank you very much! Really like your style and it was your (and a few other people) use of interesting bokeh as a creative effect that made me realize that that's what I often prefer too and why I sometimes felt that RX1 was a bit boring.
The C/Y 50/1.7 is a fun lens and great for when I get an urge for the "Zeiss'y look" , but overall the CV Nokton 50/1.5 suits me better.
Mathieu18 wrote:
Slightly different style, I'll admit I immediately liked them, but didn't recognize them as yours and had to scroll to see who posted. Excellent use of the 50/1.7!
Thank you! A bit surprising that you say that though, because I feel that they are exactly my usual style. Typical subjects (old boats, farm animals, light effects, decaying things...) and my favorite B&W preset.
Btw. it's interesting to read your thoughts on the CV 40/1.2 and 50/1.5. The 40mm is tempting, but since I already have the 50mm and 35/1.7 I think I'll skip it for now.
Great shots.
Here in Fort Collins we got big hail and rain from that storm. It pruned the trees (and flowers) and removed the last remaining preaches from our peach tree (the rest were removed from another hail storm earlier this year.
It also curtailed some comparison lens testing I am trying to do using the birds at our feeder!
Kim
Messier77 wrote:
Saw the storm of a lifetime yesterday near Strasburg, Colorado. I've been chasing for 16 years and have never seen anything like it. Beautiful corkscrew tornado that stayed in a field and hit nothing and injured no one. Wind was calm and the birds were chirping.
Messier77 wrote:
Saw the storm of a lifetime yesterday near Strasburg, Colorado. I've been chasing for 16 years and have never seen anything like it. Beautiful corkscrew tornado that stayed in a field and hit nothing and injured no one. Wind was calm and the birds were chirping.
Ronny, the skin color palette of the B&W is so much nicer than the colored one some pages back. Without knowing the girl I can’t align the colored skin tones (and btw, the greens of the foliage) with a girl under north European sun. It frustrates me to see your pictures as one of the absolute top photographers to have the same skin tone anomaly I face with Sony. Please don’t take it as an offense, just an emotional reaction.
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, but overall the CV Nokton 50/1.5 suits me better. 
