Thank you Rodluvan. No, most of the neighborhood consists of boring villas (very nice wooden ones in great shape), but if you look in and around the small "industrial area" you can find left-overs like these.
The light was surprisingly cold when I got to the school since the sun was about to disappear behind the doomsday-like clouds, and I experimented with the post processing. I only started with RAW this year, so Lightroom is still new and exciting and it's hard to resist the various sliders...
Rodluvan wrote:
Have you considered getting a D800 for the money instead of the 25, and crop the 21? It should be sharp enough to manage it.
but I need the edges of the frame and use them as part of the composition and its particular to what FL you have on the camera. People moving about and walking in and out of frame and their surroundings are everything in a scene. You take the pic when you see what you see, a second too soon or a second later ...whats left besides a tale at the pub about a fish that got away.
This pic is a good example. I could cut heads out and place them anywhere and some even tell me I should remove the (critical) guy to the right but everyone is exactly where I saw them, its the picture and why we press the button.
The other problem is cropping down doesn't give you 25mm, it gives you 21mm with something missing.
Its why zooms suck at some things. Photographers call them convenient but who the hell looks at a picture and remarks ..."now thats a convenient picture" (grin)
Too many pages to give comments to everyone, so just few comments:
Edgecrusher, really liked you 2/28 daytime seashore landscape. I start to get quite bored to traditonal ND-grad colourful sky & smooth water beach shots and this was rather refreshing to see. Really great rendering of the rocks on left and castle on right. Shots like this make me want to keep carrying 2/28 just for landscapes, 2/25 can't do it's magic as well on this kind of distances, but on other hand I just can't carry all the lenses all the time with me...
Lars, way back on page 705 the two 1,4/35 images had really nice light/textures or something what I really can't describe but liked quite much regarding how scenes were rendered. EDIT: Same comment to your post page 703. Weird that either of your post I don't find the light to co-operate with 2,8/21, but it really works with 1,4/35.
Akul, nice to see your forest work now in better light (compared to early spring images the light in these renders shapes and textures 10000x better). You seem to have learned the 21 really well, I have so hard time to find anything to shoot with it since it's so damn wide.
Martynas, great shots from Utah.
Rod, great street shooting on past weeks. Really nice to see Zeiss rendering on people outdoors.
Also great to see lots of new (at least new to me and my extreme short name memory...) posters here!
Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2/25 @ f/2, HDR(1/200, 1/500 and 1/1250s), ISO 100 - larger
Helena is right Samuli, I've got plenty of trees here but I never look at them the way I look at yours.
I like that very much Helena, its very complex and you put it in order. I've been looking at it in other orientations and Lyn came in and caught me looking at it upside down and after she finished laughing is doing it too (grin)...
I'm still getting the hang of my 3.5/18, but I love it so far. Here's a few I've shot recently.
I realize the Capitol is probably one of the most over-shot spots in the US (if not the world), but I couldn't believe how good the picture came straight out of the camera. Only made minor tweaks to it. The others are from an abandoned theater in Detroit.
I got up early, brewed coffee and had a good breakfast and headed into the city, an hours trip. Its winter here and certainly not cold by many of your own standard but its cold none the less and I wore my coat and a scarf that Lyn knitted me.
I was excited as I packed my backpack the night before. I haven't taken a pic since January and ummed and arred as to what lenses I'd take. Naturally I'd take my newly acquired F3 loaded with Tri-X and it now has a strap that looks like a roll of 35mm that Lyn made with tapestry stitches. I also packed the D700 and a spare battery.
It was a battle but I finally decided on the 100 and the 35/2, the game was on and I was primed ....
D700, Zeiss 100/2 Makro-Planar. Melbourne, Australia
I got a fire-plug and a wet foot from stepping in a deep puddle.
I think I'm gonna call it 'Blocked Pipes'
Diamond Jubilee was awesome ...did you see Grace Jones with the hula hoop ...
What would Liz think of this ...put it to big screen and turn up your speakers, way cool.
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