Busy here today...
Anden, this is indeed a beautiful bokeh shot.
Sorry guys (where are the female photographers here anyway?) I cant post picts of my gear here, this would just take to much space in the forum and after all we do not want to concurate with the dmr/1ds thread, no?
bathman wrote:
Busy here today...
Anden, this is indeed a beautiful bokeh shot.
Sorry guys (where are the female photographers here anyway?) I cant post picts of my gear here, this would just take to much space in the forum and after all we do not want to concurate with the dmr/1ds thread, no?
Thanks Andi. The 50 1.2 is the next best nikkor 50 in terms of bokehquality. The ais has 9 apertureblades and it is a little bit better when stopped down...
Your shots with the 85 is not bad either :-). Too bad that lens is so damn costly. I will have to settle with the 85L.
I edited those comments slightly for brevity. Anden (the duck? wtf? Anders And?), I even left off my 90 Elmarit, and now I have the Zeiss Jena 20mm f/2.8, and a Leica 80 Lux is on the way! You'd better work your butt off to catch up, or you could just wait for my bank to force me to sell everything again, because I think I am bankrupt now. I sold my two Canon IS zooms to put off that time until later :)
If you have $25 plus shipping, you should try the camdapter strap. I just got mine this week, and it knocks the Canon handstrap into a cocked hat! It still isn't perfect, but much better, and anyway, I am beginning to suspect that the problem with handstraps for the 5D is based on the placement of the lugs: They simply aren't far enough back...
sorry, hate to say this, but I think this thread is about what you do with this stuff and not how it looks like. Why not make one of these interesting "show your gear" thread...
Da bin ich gespannt! I just visited your website, and love many of your images. In a couple of the B&W studio/people shots, the skin tone is like... bronze? Do you know which ones I mean? The first one is one of them. I would like to try my hand at this as well. I adore many of Karsh's portraits for exactly this tone. Are there any tips you would give me?
Here is a shot of my grandson taken with the 1DsMkII and the Nikon 55 1.2. I think this combination has some real possibilities. However for portraits the CZ 85 1.2 is killer. I love that lens.
Cute kid! Woody, you are a grandfather! Wow, I thought of you as being my age (40). That 55/1.2 has a really narrow depth of field at that distance. I am looking forward to trying to get one eye out of focus when my 80 Lux gets here :)
Well I do b/w convertion with dpp, try to use sepia and saturation at 30%. The rest is 20 years of darkroom training. I allways write in my bio, that I fell in the developer as a youngster, it s just that I can't eat as many wild pigs as Obelix
Okay Andi, of everything you have in that shot, I want your Pentax Digital Spotmeter
I'll have to try the "bronze" skin approach. The main problem is that I don't have a studio, so I can't hire models, so I just have to use whatever other shots I have. I will try to pick up a couple of lights (a German couple, ie. 3 or more) and make room for a studio space in my living room. I will probably start with portraits. I just love that look, but so far when I have tried to get something like that, I end up killing some of the range. It seems to me that the shadows are stretched and the highlights compressed, but in a very special way.
Btw, get that equipment shot outta here, this is an image thread! What is that lens near the spotmeter with a lot of glass (Zeiss 85/1.2?), and the other one 3 to the left of it, also with a lot of glass? I presume they are Zeiss lenses, given the Contax cameras in the back (I know they are not Hassie Zeiss glass, those are all further to the right). Heck, what are they all (the 35mm ones)?
Carsten
Most of my big gear is memory to me, but the Spotmeter is not the best pick.
Before you buy flashs and such things begin to shoot with your friends and move closer to a window, you will not need lights. Natural light is priceless
You can see that it is a planar on the rim of the lens. The only planar with that much glass is either the 50 or 60 1.2 Jahre anniversary. (I have the 50)
I won't show a shot like this of my gear because (much like you Guy) I don't sell much of my older stuff. You do but then you buy it back. I am afraid that I would do this as well so I try not to sell any of it. Then there is no panic of getting it back. This is especially true for my 21 2.8 and the 55 1.2 50 Jahre.
Oh my God if I lined up all my Nikon lenses, Canon Lens. Zeiss Lenses, and the magnificent Leica lenses It would overfill the image.
I think I am sick...........slippery slope.....................Yaaaaaaaah
