Samuli Vahonen
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Jim, nice collection of stop signs
mjassbong, thanks for larger version. I really like these nature photos, which are hard to understand what is in the picture.
akul wrote:
Samuli - Yes, I agree. The tree shots were rather flat with the no shadow. My interest was that with this flat condition, can I still extract three dimensionality with very little cue in depth. I also did not have 2/35 in my bag that day, with it might have been tiny bit better. ( I find 1.4 being less contrasty but higher fidelity, also my copy constantly overexposes, so it gets washed out quite easily. ) In any case, it might sound strange, but I am drawn to this search. I may post more trial over here. Hope people don't mind too much. I figure there are so many great shots posted here, posting some 'in-progress' effort may be acceptable....Show more →
At least I don't mind. I doubt 2/35 would have made any difference. I think if I would have shoot those I would have exposed 1/3 or even 2/3 stop lower (I rarely use light meter, I have "standard" conditions viewing the LCD because using LCDVF, blocking all light and just seeing the LCD - so I know based on how the LCD looks like in live view how the exposure is going to end up - of course sometimes I overexpose and then take it down in post processing if image style requires it [this will enhance colors]), and in post processing the only think I usually do for each image is adjusting black level for right amount of black clipping (the other adjustment usually needed is white balance, but that usually can be done to whole group of images and rarely each image needs own WB).
Also one of the good things of this kind of images+discussion is to learn new things, from what others are doing. If just photos and no discussion, it's much harder (or impossible) to understand why people made the choices they made, taking away much from the learning potential.
akul wrote:
Your Austrian forest shots are killing me.
Thanks. They are killing me too, living in a rather flat country it's so hard much harder to shoot landscapes when I'm at home.
akul wrote:
Voigtlander 90 eh? Where can I see what you are up to ?? Needed "different brush" for my abstracts and other stuff (mainly APO was needed, smooth bokeh (Zeiss bokeh is always little rough, the very reason why I like Zeiss lenses for "normal" photography) and more "flat" rendering), where I want more to emphasize traditional art stuff than "being there", hard to explain but if you see these 3 examples you see what I mean: 1, 2 and 3. I have been posting images to Voigtländer image thread and Alternative image thread, but easiest to see photos is to browse these 4 directories, filenames containing V90 are with Voighländer; 1, 2, 3 and 4.
From last spring, I'm 98% sure I didn't post this, but apologies if this is repost - Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/85 @ 1.4, 1/160s, ISO 200 (larger
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but took a short drive into the countryside today to try it out.
However, I still prefer my Zeiss Ikon for the sheer pleasure of use. That VF is an absolute killer. On the other hand, I'm amazed at the super sharpness of my ZM lenses on the GXR. It seems that the absence of AA filter and the relatively low pixel density is ideal.