I think it works better than the original lens hood and this way I can use my polarizer on each of my lenses. Turning the hood also turns the polarizer nicely. It is a bit large, perhaps for use on something like a 70-200 but it works well.
So, i had enuf of Japanese animes but I can't let go up until I make something similar on my own...nuts. After several weeks looking for the appropriate layer background, I finally started working on the last piece of my Geisha project. I only have at least 2-3 hours to spare every night, so it took me almost 2 weeks to complete the last image .
These was taken using a D1X. The foreground was from a Nikkor 35mm f/2 nonAi and both the mid and background was shot about 2 years ago using a Nikkor 300mm f/4.5 Ai. Images were layered in CS3 and it contains around 30 layer masks. The challenges in CS3...turning the dark brown hair to silvery gray (never got close to this)...and the skin to pearl white, without looking plasticy...and turning day into moonlit landscape...
Pretty disappointed with a lot of the shots today. Took about 400 out with the dogs on a run. Very foggy, perhaps expecting too much. Not many keepers. Just couldn't get any sort of detail in the dogs face. Happy with these two though. D700 would have been nice.
luminosity wrote:
Zaitz, your images are some of the moodiest and most consistently notable here.
Nice shot, Kite .
Did a birthday yesterday:
None of those are of the birthday girl, but are still interesting to me.
I really appreciate that, thanks. You've really got the b&w down. The tones work well in all of them. I particularly like the focal point of the second shot.
Steezus wrote:
Going through my archives. All D700 & 70-200.
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