Lots of wonderful shots with quite an amazing details.
Samuli's - 50 planar Wiener Rathus shot is superb showing off the amount of detail. And the forest shot is just beautiful. I hear the challenge with 100 MP, but that is also part of why I love that lens. It shows where the focus is, and it shows it very clearly. Of course, it also is not forgiving. Still, it is much easier to focus than 35 for me.
Jim - #2, 3, 5 are my favorite. #5 reminds me of Chagall painting.
abhijeeth - Gorgeous shots with stunnint details.
trusty - Cute shot !
ZF35
ZF100
Apology in advance if the highlight hurts your eyes. I just liked that water lily, and did not want to crop this shot.
akul, I edited my previous post to add some comments about the 35/2 and your first shot shows exactly what I mean. Fantastic ! The detail on the tree trunks is very good. You got the focus spot on.
abhijeeth, by softness I referred to the warm-WB induced softness (how it fools eye to imagine scene soft). I tweaked the WB to normal (where greens are green, not brownish-yellowish-green) and photo looks sharper. I often shoot with the cloudy setting, but in forest I have to adjust it few hundred Kelvins down and move the green/magenta tint slider little towards to magenta to get neutral WB. Specially if it rains or is misty. Your Camaro is much nicer than my crappy rental Fiesta.
akul, thansk - ZF35 shot is nice - your profile says that you are from New York state, is this where?
Markus, 21ZE makes some people really stand out, nice. Even I shoot weddings with 24-70L and 100L, I will try 21ZE on next group photo or something suitable - this effect is really nice.
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Few photos from Austria, thumbnails are links to bigger versions.
Fantastic gradations of greens and nice composing in the last one, Samuli.
Regarding the ZE 21 for people shots: I really begun to love its rendering for people. For weddings I always favored Canons 24 1.4 in the past, but nowadays I use the 24L only when its fast aperture is necessary. A really nice feature of the ZE is its greater than usual DOF which makes the ZE very fast to focus manually. This is the only MF-lens I use in contexts where the situation normally requires fast and reliable AF-performance. Also very fast to MF is the 35 2.0 ZE, but I haven't used it for weddings so far.
For more of the piano player, check out the Alpha mount thread, I am still processing the photos of him... damn camera was failing horribly at metering today and over exposing everything 2 stops!
Samuli:I have to try what you did. That camaro isn't mine BTW!
Your two vertical shots are perhaps one of your most stunning work I've seen recently. Wow,just awesome! There are so many nice things going on there , how much time did you spend fine-tuning the composition? Very well done, I am somewhat partial to the first one though.
Jim: your first shot is stunning too. The flower and the base almost look like an elegant candle stand. I'd be tempted to crop out the top highlight bokeh though- to me it is slightly distracting.
Jae: great flower shot(2nd) and great arch shot as well.
Yeah, I meant it as a compliment, but it is also one of those shots where "great shot!" just doesn't seem appropriate. It really gave me pause to think for a few seconds.
joekraft wrote:
Yeah, I meant it as a complement, but it is also one of those shots where "great shot!" just doesn't seem appropriate. It really gave me pause to think for a few seconds.
