Wow great stuffs in just one day! Belated Happy New Year !
IsleofGough - I like the expression on the dog. Very nice capture.
Lieutenant - Very cool Film Noir series. Rainy night, classic car, cobble stone, all make a wonderful mystery.
Jim- Congrats on the 365. Hope this is not the end.
Bob - Beautiful set. I was beginning to miss your landscape shots. Love the #2
reza - Very nice composition. I like the way how you used the signage to frame this shot. Nice color.
Joakim- Beautiful snow scape capture with 85. Love the placement of three trees in the composition.
Bernd - WOW. It is so great to see your work again here. As Ant says, your portraits with 85 are just gorgeous. Superb BW conversion. Simple, powerful, dramatic and elegant.
Picture this - Beautiful shot. Gorgeous color.
jake40509 - Nice capture on the color. I like the layer effect and focus point. Good lighting really helps.
OneAnt wrote:
Boy have I got heaps to tell you. Am finished being a beginner. I'm at 45 days and my street photos became my portfolio and I got a place to study that is very special, amazing people that let me be myself (insert naughty grin here). 900+ interviews for only 33 places and they called me the 1% (insert whopping stupid grin here).
For 2years I get to rip out photos from my imagination ...and you should see my design diary, it reads like something of a cross between Barbara Cartland and that dirty little stopout, the marquis de sade.
I start in 5 weeks and on film ...Its going to be like swimming in chocolate....Show more →
Wow, that is fantastic, a huge congratulations to you! Will you keep a blog or something where those interested can follow you?
OneAnt wrote:
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Boy have I got heaps to tell you. Am finished being a beginner. I'm at 45 days and my street photos became my portfolio and I got a place to study that is very special, amazing people that let me be myself (insert naughty grin here). 900+ interviews for only 33 places and they called me the 1% (insert whopping stupid grin here).
For 2years I get to rip out photos from my imagination ...and you should see my design diary, it reads like something of a cross between Barbara Cartland and that dirty little stopout, the marquis de sade.
I start in 5 weeks and on film ...Its going to be like swimming in chocolate.
Lieutenant Z, wonderful shots of this alltime classic, the Traction!
Jim, nice, and thanks for the smile!
Bob, brilliant trio! Love your snow shot!
Bernd, amazing B&W portrait! Wow!
PictureThis, what a sight! Good work!
Luka, making vintage whisky from lemons are we?
Thanks for the comment Luka!
Bernd, two excellent b&w portraits.
Luka, very nice photo, I especially like how it is divided into a warm and a cold part.
philber, nice ones, especially since they are shot near minimum focus distance!
Lieutenant Z and Smridevan, beautiful and moody available light impressions! As long as the girls are so beautiful, I don't mind a little blurriness.
Jim Schemel wrote:
Bernd,
another nice portrait.How do you like the 50 Planar? Its another lens that seems to get a bad rap on this forum.
Thanks, Jim. Another great impression from your area, you always have impressive colours.
Well somehow I happen to like those ZFs the most, that the masses do not rave so much about. My line up is ZF18/28/50/85. Note, I had ZF35 and ZF100 long time parallel. This is of course for focal lengths reason and because I especially love the character of these lengths, but it is also valid for their signature. (I cannot speak of the ZF18, I haven't explored it enough yet.)
The 1.4/50 was my first ZF way back some years ago and it made me go Zeiss and sell my Nikon lens equivalents. It is pretty nice and usable wide open (needs a different sharpening) and sometimes the abberations are just wonderful for pictures. It's great from f/2 and simply super the more you stop down. It's a great allrounder and it's the lens that sits on my D3 always. I use it for everything, from clicki-di-clack to special occasions and from travel to portraiture. It's not an über-lens, but I find it real great and love it. And you know, there are not many 50s available that feature the Zeiss colors and look.
Last year I sold it and got the 50MP instead, but I didn't like that for what I do and bought the 1.4/50 back again only a few months later. There were some discussions last year about these two 50 in this thread and I remember philber showing a lot of nice work with his 1.4/50.
Two recent ones, both ZF1.4/50, f/2.8, D3
Ah, and one of my most loved ones. The same boy by the way. I was absolutely sure I had shown it here long time ago, but it seems I never did, so here it is (Hello Tony!).
The thing that becomes most apparent in all the pictures in this thread is that for all the qualities of any Zeiss lens you can see the photographer above everything else. I will never stop being amazed.
Look at the pictures on this page and look at how happy and broke Smridevan is.
