ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
p.315 #1ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
1x by Son V Hanoi, on Flickr
100mp zf.1
Apr 12, 2011 at 11:14 PM
p.315 #2ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Akul, thanks for your kind words! Your first shot is just fine, but, for some reason, the second one is ht eone that really caught my attention, and actually didn't yet let go of it...:-) Amazing!
Hugo, more delightful shots! Thanks!
Wayne, what an experience! My preference goes to N°2, then N°1. You handled the contrast and DR brilliantly!
Hugo, more delightful shots! Thanks!
Wayne, what an experience! My preference goes to N°2, then N°1. You handled the contrast and DR brilliantly!
Apr 12, 2011 at 11:36 PM
p.315 #3ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Lovely set from Brugge, Bob! I wonder what the picture of the sitting man would look like with the right side and shadow cropped out...
Apr 12, 2011 at 11:56 PM
p.315 #4ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
akul wrote:
Fracas - I agree with Philber. There is nothing wrong with the BW version, but that color shot is much more fun
Akul
Thanks, Philber and Akul
Fracas - I agree with Philber. There is nothing wrong with the BW version, but that color shot is much more fun
Akul
Thanks, Philber and Akul
Apr 13, 2011 at 12:12 AM
p.315 #5ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
philber wrote:
Lovely set from Brugge, Bob! I wonder what the picture of the sitting man would look like with the right side and shadow cropped out...
+1
Philber, I like very much your flower shots!
Lovely set from Brugge, Bob! I wonder what the picture of the sitting man would look like with the right side and shadow cropped out...
+1
Philber, I like very much your flower shots!
Apr 13, 2011 at 12:13 AM
p.315 #7ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
fracas wrote:
Uzay, here is the B&W version of the photo:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5069/5607146906_32870a786d_b.jpg
Stunning shot
Uzay wrote
Among the last few pages my fav is from fracas, I would like to see a B&W version of this one, oh and would like to hang it on my wallhttp://farm6.static.flickr.com/5069/5607146906_32870a786d_b.jpg
Stunning shot
Apr 13, 2011 at 12:43 AM
p.315 #8ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
rji2goleez wrote:
Nice shot everyone. A few more from Barcelona from up high. All shot with the 100mm MP
Crikey you really are getting round europe quite a bit.
If you want a photo shoot in London, let me know
Nice shot everyone. A few more from Barcelona from up high. All shot with the 100mm MP
Crikey you really are getting round europe quite a bit.
If you want a photo shoot in London, let me know
Apr 13, 2011 at 12:48 AM
p.315 #9ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
johnahill wrote:
Crikey you really are getting round europe quite a bit.
If you want a photo shoot in London, let me know
Thanks for that. I'm now just a little more than halfway through my six month stay. So, during that time, I'm trying to see as much of Europe as I can . . . on the weekends! I figure I can sleep in July!
rji2goleez wrote
Nice shot everyone. A few more from Barcelona from up high. All shot with the 100mm MPIf you want a photo shoot in London, let me know
Thanks for that. I'm now just a little more than halfway through my six month stay. So, during that time, I'm trying to see as much of Europe as I can . . . on the weekends! I figure I can sleep in July!
Apr 13, 2011 at 02:26 AM
p.315 #10ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Thanks Philber, Bob. As I rarely shoot portrait, I decided to do a portrait, of an abandoned machinery 
rexx - loverly flower shots
Bob - Beautiful set from Brugge. The first shot, chair in front seems the only thing in color. Great effect.
The wall and a man. I like both the original and the squarer crop, but I may like the non-crop slightly more as it gives me more context. Great eyes for the candle shot. Very nice bokeh in the background with 21.
Akul
rexx - loverly flower shots
Bob - Beautiful set from Brugge. The first shot, chair in front seems the only thing in color. Great effect.
The wall and a man. I like both the original and the squarer crop, but I may like the non-crop slightly more as it gives me more context. Great eyes for the candle shot. Very nice bokeh in the background with 21.
Akul
Apr 13, 2011 at 04:39 AM
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p.315 #11ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
akul wrote:
Bob - Beautiful set from Brugge. The first shot, chair in front seems the only thing in color. Great effect.
Akul
Thanks akul. Yes, all but the chair have been desaturated in LR using the paintbrush tool.
Bob - Beautiful set from Brugge. The first shot, chair in front seems the only thing in color. Great effect.
Akul
Thanks akul. Yes, all but the chair have been desaturated in LR using the paintbrush tool.
Apr 13, 2011 at 05:17 AM
p.315 #12ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Bob, Akul, Hugo, Philber some really great shots. And also all those that I forgot the names of
Here is one ZE 100 MP
Here is one ZE 100 MP
Apr 13, 2011 at 08:03 AM
p.315 #13ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Bob, another piece of great work IMHO, with the first and third being the strongest.
Lars, more inspiration from you! And thanks for the kind words...
Lars, more inspiration from you! And thanks for the kind words...
Apr 13, 2011 at 10:34 AM
p.315 #14ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Great shot, Lars! Great capture of the smoke and the light.
Apr 13, 2011 at 10:45 AM
p.315 #15ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
carstenw wrote:
Great shot, Lars! Great capture of the smoke and the light.
What he said . . . for sure!
Great shot, Lars! Great capture of the smoke and the light.
What he said . . . for sure!
Apr 13, 2011 at 11:24 AM
p.315 #16ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
carstenw wrote:
I think maybe I am guilty of emphasizing my doubts more than my likes. I do really enjoy the lens. It is very sharp, has great boke close up, and has surprisingly few aberrations, like the minimal purple even in high-contrast areas, although I need to examine its field curvature wide open. I just find myself a bit surprised by the boke at medium distances, and its ability to isolate. I mentioned this earlier, but the harsh light and very distracting backgrounds may have been at fault. I will try to do something less extreme next weekend, provided I find...Show more →
I am beginning to see what the problem was last weekend. First of all, the diopter was close, but not right, and so I had a consistent back-focus problem. This makes the background look sharper than it should, and the subject softer than it should, throwing off my ability to sharpen correctly without getting weird happenings in the background.
Secondly, I for some reason had an inordinately large number of shots with a dark foreground and a light background, which also tends to de-emphasize the foreground, everything else being equal.
Thirdly, there was a lot of messy stuff in the foreground, somewhat compromising my ability to find a good place to capture from, especially considering that I was standing on the edge of a swamp much of the time.
Finally, The 50MP does seem to have a somewhat large depth of field for a 50/2, meaning that I don't lose as much of the detail in the background as I am used to.
Having corrected point 1, and being aware of points 2, 3 and 4, I will go out again with this lens again this coming weekend, and give it another shot. I will try to get some more distance between foreground and background, keeping the foreground brighter and the background darker, and rigorously checking focus, maybe even using Live View.
Has anyone here got any experience with the Zacuto or LCDVF display loupes for landscape work and live view? Are they worth the money? Do you really use them? Are they very bulky so that they stay home most of the time? Can they be unmounted and remounted in the field easily? Is it easier to focus with one than just with the optical viewfinder?
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Here is one more shot, perhaps the last from this trip. It is also back-focused, but at this size, it isn't so easy to see.
I think maybe I am guilty of emphasizing my doubts more than my likes. I do really enjoy the lens. It is very sharp, has great boke close up, and has surprisingly few aberrations, like the minimal purple even in high-contrast areas, although I need to examine its field curvature wide open. I just find myself a bit surprised by the boke at medium distances, and its ability to isolate. I mentioned this earlier, but the harsh light and very distracting backgrounds may have been at fault. I will try to do something less extreme next weekend, provided I find...Show more →
I am beginning to see what the problem was last weekend. First of all, the diopter was close, but not right, and so I had a consistent back-focus problem. This makes the background look sharper than it should, and the subject softer than it should, throwing off my ability to sharpen correctly without getting weird happenings in the background.
Secondly, I for some reason had an inordinately large number of shots with a dark foreground and a light background, which also tends to de-emphasize the foreground, everything else being equal.
Thirdly, there was a lot of messy stuff in the foreground, somewhat compromising my ability to find a good place to capture from, especially considering that I was standing on the edge of a swamp much of the time.
Finally, The 50MP does seem to have a somewhat large depth of field for a 50/2, meaning that I don't lose as much of the detail in the background as I am used to.
Having corrected point 1, and being aware of points 2, 3 and 4, I will go out again with this lens again this coming weekend, and give it another shot. I will try to get some more distance between foreground and background, keeping the foreground brighter and the background darker, and rigorously checking focus, maybe even using Live View.
Has anyone here got any experience with the Zacuto or LCDVF display loupes for landscape work and live view? Are they worth the money? Do you really use them? Are they very bulky so that they stay home most of the time? Can they be unmounted and remounted in the field easily? Is it easier to focus with one than just with the optical viewfinder?
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Here is one more shot, perhaps the last from this trip. It is also back-focused, but at this size, it isn't so easy to see.
Apr 13, 2011 at 02:25 PM
p.315 #17ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Bob amazing job on the first and last one, i love it.
21mm
21mm
Apr 13, 2011 at 04:20 PM
p.315 #18ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Thanks for the kind words Akul and Philippe!
Great shots everyone!
Great shots everyone!
Apr 14, 2011 at 12:56 AM
p.315 #19ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Bob, that second shot is stunning! You should print it and hang it.
Apr 14, 2011 at 01:13 AM
p.315 #20ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Bob - Stunning window shots from different churches, cathedrals. Great use of 21. Love the way how you find ways to use 21 for almost everything. One particularly caught my eyes was the empty champagne bottle left in some sort of courtyard. Great rendition of bottle, and quite lovely bokeh
Lars - Great capture of a welder with light and smoke. Beautiful detail of surroundings. I love the rendition of paint pealing wall in the back.
Carsten - Very interesting analysis of 50MP related to your shot results. What caught my attention most was the DOF part. That is understandable due to shorter focal length compared to 100MP. One particular characteristics that makes 100MP quite lovely and challenging is its extremely shallow DOF. Lovely shot of trees. To my eyes, focus is on the top part of downed tree trunk in the middle where it bends down. If it was back focused, may be the piece was bending away ? Lovely color, very natural and pleasing to my eyes.
Hugo - Great coast shot with 21. Texture on the rock is very nice. Beautiful work
Akul
Lars - Great capture of a welder with light and smoke. Beautiful detail of surroundings. I love the rendition of paint pealing wall in the back.
Carsten - Very interesting analysis of 50MP related to your shot results. What caught my attention most was the DOF part. That is understandable due to shorter focal length compared to 100MP. One particular characteristics that makes 100MP quite lovely and challenging is its extremely shallow DOF. Lovely shot of trees. To my eyes, focus is on the top part of downed tree trunk in the middle where it bends down. If it was back focused, may be the piece was bending away ? Lovely color, very natural and pleasing to my eyes.
Hugo - Great coast shot with 21. Texture on the rock is very nice. Beautiful work
Akul
Apr 14, 2011 at 01:24 AM