Thank you Bernd Amazing portrait. Love the lighting and tonality. With the Zeiss rendering we become used to brilliance and sharpness, but your shot brings back the imtimacy of the shot with the 85/1.4.
rji2goleez, great shots. Really like #2, and 3, the composition, lighting and PP.
I like your macro shots too. The Z* 21/2.8 is an amazing lens.
Philippe, love the shots, great tones and rendering. Excellent use of the ZE 28. Nice to see a different style too
Very cool shots Wayne! I live in the SF bay area and I can instantly recognize those images . I've never been there since I bought the 21 ZE.
Very nice shots everyone. I am not very regular as most of you folks here are. Boris, your portrait shots stand out for me. 85 ZE was the first lens I had, and I got rid of it to "make space" for the 100 MP.
Anyways, I have been all over the world in the past few months and this month brings me to Alaska to family. A perennial favorite. Here's a quick shot from last night. A clear summer night (very unusual). This is from Homer, AK (self proclaimed Halibut fishing capital of the world). I am rather liking wide open landscape shots. Please do let me know if the colors are off, I am working off a rather old laptop with very basic tools.
Here's one with 21 ZE. Pretty much straight out of the camera and it was rather late after sunset.
I presume most of you have big monitors, so I take the liberty to post a larger image.
Here in Alaska, it is quite common for small aero planes to land on water. This is a picture of float plane base at Homer, AK.
rsolti13 wrote:
Bob, excellent shot! I really like the red/green glows from the lights above. Curious, why did you use f/4 instead of a little higher?
Hey Thanks! The short answer is that I was working quickly and settled for f/4 at ISO 100 rather than raise the ISO to give me more DOF at 30 sec., or use bulb settings for longer exposure. Still, what this lens can do at f/4 under these conditions is amazing.
rji2goleez wrote:
Hey Thanks! The short answer is that I was working quickly and settled for f/4 at ISO 100 rather than raise the ISO to give me more DOF at 30 sec., or use bulb settings for longer exposure. Still, what this lens can do at f/4 under these conditions is amazing.
Absolutely, the DOF on this lens at medium apertures is unreal. Stealing Philber's quote, you have a P&S at f/5.6
Thanks Philippe, Charles, Ryan, Ajay, and Bob!
@Ryan, I am not sure if you saw the list of places you might want to see on your visit to the Bay area that I posted in this thread in response to your question but Muir woods was one of the places.
It is challenging since there are boardwalks and trails which you have to stay on and the lighting can be difficult as on clear days like yesterday. The best time is when the fog/marine layer is just burning off and you can get some softer light. Also, on the weekends there are a lot of people there so expect as you are setting up a shot on your tripod to have someone tell you how good an eye you have, as they snap off their own shot with their P&S. It is only ~12 miles north of San Francisco on HWY 1 going over the Golden Gate Bridge.
@Ajay, nice shot, good atmosphere, and you must be having an incredible time in AK. I have been wanting to go up there for a long time now and wanted to get up there this summer. I see you are putting the ZE 21 to good use up there in AK.
@Bob, like the lights and the color in the bridge shot. Did you take any later shots as there looks to be a nice pre-sunrise orange/red color starting out in the distance beyond the bridge?
wayne seltzer wrote:
@Bob, like the lights and the color in the bridge shot. Did you take any later shots as there looks to be a nice pre-sunrise orange/red color starting out in the distance beyond the bridge?
Wayne, Thanks. I didn't hang around but saw the sunrise from a different location. It was just OK. There weren't enough clouds overall to make it interesting. I did go to another industrial area to shoot in the pre-sunrise light. Those will be coming shortly.
Amazing portrait. Love the lighting and tonality. With the Zeiss rendering we become used to brilliance and sharpness, but your shot brings back the imtimacy of the shot with the 85/1.4. 
It is only ~12 miles north of San Francisco on HWY 1 going over the Golden Gate Bridge. 
