Samuli Vahonen
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 p.381 #20 · ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!) | |
Thanks for comments!
- prosep: the ZE100 "waterfall" photo was really nice, technically pretty difficult due to snow and direction of sun & WB issues due to lots of shadow and lots in sun - the water/snow reflects light nicely to rocks on right. Sadly we watch very small photos on internet, this should be watched on much bigger resolution
- Bob: regards your issue with overcast/white clouds in Norway; I had exactly same issues when I was first time in Norway (well also 2nd time but it was less issue then) when it rained for first 3 days, luckily I did see it already when shooting that "this is not never going to work" and started shooting with HDR-bracketing and after all I was quite happy with the results (some examples Contax Distagon T* 2.8/28 Canon 180/3.5L Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2/35 Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2/35 Canon 180/3.5L Carl Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/100 Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2/35 Canon 17-40/4L - sorry about small size picture but these are from my old website).
- abhijeeth: I'm not big fan of frames, but yours are just right (the black ones) - and great photos as well, specially liked "Late sunset"
- cyra: Liked your Planar 85 shots, specially the 3rd one, the field in background with repeating pattern was quite inspiring. The 25mm shots - wow! I really liked the rendering style. Had to go and check is it available for ZE yet....no it's not...damn... Contax 25 is good, but even your thumbnail size images looked so good that I they must have improved it. ZF could be used with adapter, but it focuses to wrong direction and I don't want that headache again (I originally had 35 and 100 with ZF.1 mount before they were available for ZE).
- MJWong: photo #2 "two" was marvellous!
- FlyPenFly: Shooting in rain is fun, I can't shoot with Umbrella, but I have few different rain covers for camera/lens, here is photo from today's trip to rainy forest (notice! not rainforest  ) about the setup with 85mm (the big thing in end is LCDVF - I use Live View exclusively): RainSleeve. From the 3 photos show I liked most the last one, great movement on the yellow taxi.
- Bob: 2nd picture in set "Here's a few more from my visit to Norway this past weekend." was great, was it with some fisheye lens or did you shoot panorama and project it to fidheye image? 4th one from that set was also marvellous.
- Uzay: The stairway image was fun to watch - there were "conflicts" which makes viewer to think, e.g. that the wall wasn't straight but instead about 10 degree angle to the tiles on the floor
- AbramG: "The Giving Tree" looks really great!
akul wrote:
I was curious where other photographers use as focus point and hyper focused area as I am always playing with it, and often, I find myself drawn to the only spot I did not think to put as focus point, drawing my attention most
Every time I make compromise and focus between "targets" or hyperfocally "to cover all the DOF needed" I fail. The way how my lenses show contrast and sharpness inside DOF makes the only successful way to focus to the main target. I could get away using hyperfocal for webthumbnails (1000px or so) but any printout will point out my failure right away, or fullscreen size (2560x1600) in computer.
cyra wrote:
with this image I am not content. I failed to capture the mood of the place, it looks just boring. Any ideas how to enhance this kind of forest shots? Polarizer for better colour?
Polarizer won't help much if at all. I think the key is to shoot it in conditions when brightness differences between sky and forest are smallest. When I was in Ireland I wanted to shoot this kind of roads, which are surrounded by trees. I spend hours driving to find the roads where the trees were dense enough to not shot the sky at all. Hopefully you can get some ideas from my results
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Today I wanted dedicate my shooting time to 85ZE, in order to "compensate" not taking it with me to Austria. It did rain so I had to use Rainsleeve to protect the camera, lens and LCDVF, worked well as with most of the ZE lenses (doesn't work with 21 but with all others), not even single drop to front lens element.
If anybody has good hints how to learn compose and shoot horizontally more - I have tendency to shoot a lot vertically, too much, since the vertical photos are hard to present in electronical format.
Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/85 @ f/2.8, 1/200s, ISO 100
Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/85 @ f/2.5, 1/250s, ISO 100
Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/85 @ f/1.4, 1/500s, ISO 100 - as an example of bad bokeh, should have shoot with f/2.2 or f/2.5
Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/85 @ f/2.2, 1/250s, ISO 100
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thanks for the idea to do closups there around all the tourists (I usually avoid those areas). I am glad you did only 2 countries in 5 days rather then the more usual american attempt to do Europe in 5 days 
(admittedly I do not do a ton of sharpening in post)
