Great shots Ryan! #1,2 and 3 the colours and rendering are excellent
Luka, really like you car shots with the 85/1.4. The rendering is smoother and has the velvet look to them. Also the sunset shots are great. You cannot go wrong with 100MP or 21/2.8 for drawing colours.
Luka, that 85 looks like it is being put to good use so far...I have a feeling the 100 will start to see more use though
The sunset shots are excellent, timing/place is everything. I really like 1, 3 and the last one. I was going to post earlier, but I knew your sunset shots would kill anything I posted....so I wait
Luka, brilliant 1, 3 and 4 sunsets....!
Nice close-ups with the 21, Robert!
Nice flower, Ryan!
Can't you guys make some bad shots, or at least mundane, I really need to renew my vocabulary...
Thanks, Joakim, for this totally useless, grotesque shot hat doesn't even manage the kitsch, chintzy look that somehow is very bad, but not uninteresting!
Whew! [ goes off whistling, feeling a lot better, thanks to Joakim]
Charles: Yes, the 85 works well at that distance wide open. I doubt Zeiss had it in mind, but a car fits just nicely at 85 mm to give a good DOF and background blur.
Bob: I used all lenses except for the 35/2. It was at home, crying its eye out. Nice closeups with the 21!
Ryan: Nice flower with some unusual background blur - did you use a small aperture?
Philippe: Hehe, you know your love of the Planars would have been much more convincing if you like..um..used them on occasion?
Good point, Luka. I will have to do something about it. Saturday morning, I have a shoot scheduled with a fellow FMer, and I will give you some Planar shots
How do some of you guys have time to take so many pics? If I don't get the evil eye from my wife my little 3 yr old makes me feel guilty for going out by myself. I feel like the 50yr old dad trying to keep up with the teenagers in a running race
How do some of you guys have time to take so many pics? If I don't get the evil eye from my wife my little 3 yr old makes me feel guilty for going out by myself. I feel like the 50yr old dad trying to keep up with the teenagers in a running race
I hear ya.I take my camera with me to work and look for opps on the way to, during, and coming home.Also it doesnt hurt to make a little money with your camera and then share that with your wife and kids, buy them something nice and make sure they know you were able to buy this because of your camera gear
-Jim
rsolti13 wrote:
How do some of you guys have time to take so many pics? If I don't get the evil eye from my wife my little 3 yr old makes me feel guilty for going out by myself. I feel like the 50yr old dad trying to keep up with the teenagers in a running race
Easy - no three year old and no wife. Free as a bird
Just getting into this and my girls are now 14 & 12 so I shouldn't have an issue going out on my own. You know it's just not that "cool" to hang out with your parents at that age Looking forward to this weekend Philippe! Will give you a ring once I get in tomorrow. Thinking about selling my two zooms and going with all primes... Thinking 21, 35, 85 and 100 MP. Was going to ask you guys, these shots are all stunning and was wodering Denoir if most of yours especially in low light are on a tripod? I have yet to buy a decent one and was thinking of getting a nice on this evening as the current one I purchased was 15 Euro and pretty much all plastic and barely holds the 5D. If most of these clear sharp images come from being on a tripod I should invest in one now before my trip this weekend.
bigkidneys wrote:
Was going to ask you guys, these shots are all stunning and was wodering Denoir if most of yours especially in low light are on a tripod? I have yet to buy a decent one and was thinking of getting a nice on this evening as the current one I purchased was 15 Euro and pretty much all plastic and barely holds the 5D. If most of these clear sharp images come from being on a tripod I should invest in one now before my trip this weekend.
Yes, most of the my low light stuff is from a tripod - the exception being my 35/1.4 (Rollei) which I use handheld regardless of light.
I cannot stress enough how important a good tripod & head are. It has to be light, easy to set up, steady and the head must give you freedom of movement.
My own solution, and I'm *very* happy with it is a Gitzo 1541t Traveller tripod and an Acratech GP ballhead.
The tripod: It's carbon fiber so it's very light < 1kg and very compact when folded. I've mounted the huge Gigapan Epic, camera + 70-200 on it without problems (>6 kg total) so it's capable of pretty large loads. And it's very steady.
The head: An excellent precision ballhead with arca-swiss quick release plates.
In addition to this, I have a massive Manfrotto 535 CF triod with a Manfrotto 503 HDV fluid head. Its principal use is video but I have not used it a lot in the last few months..
(This configuration is actually steady on much smaller and lighter Gitzo)
Jim Schemel wrote: How do some of you guys have time to take so many pics? If I don't get the evil eye from my wife my little 3 yr old makes me feel guilty for going out by myself. I feel like the 50yr old dad trying to keep up with the teenagers in a running race
I hear ya.I take my camera with me to work and look for opps on the way to, during, and coming home.Also it doesnt hurt to make a little money with your camera and then share that with your wife and kids, buy them something nice and make sure they know you were able to buy this because of your camera gear
-Jim...Show more →
This is how I get most of my early morning pre-sunrise images. My camera is always with me and my tripod remains in my car so it's always at the ready.
