Samuli Vahonen
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Lots of great images here (have been "offline" again some time), thank for inspiration!
johnahill - do you have larger version of your "Purple beech at Kew Gardens" available? It looks interesting but I really would like to see it in slightly bigger size if possible.
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Just finished processing of Ireland holiday (just 4 days, 24-27th June) photos. Since I had only so short time I tried to beforehand to have "systematic approach" by planning beforehand what I want to shoot, and ended up to list (which is way too long for 4 days...):
1. Hills/mountains in changing light (=clouds shadows adding dynamics to lightning)
2. Roads, which are tunneled by trees
3. Seascapes/shores
4. Infrared landscapes of green fields and stone fences
As equipment I decided to use small kit consisting few ZE lenses and long lens from C/Y since Zeiss don't want to make one in ZE/F/S mount... 21ZE, 28ZE, 35ZE, 1.4/50ZE, 100ZE and Contax 80-200, polarizers, 67mm Hoya R72 (+58mm stepdown ring), panorama head, 3540XLS and Photoclam ballhead.
I think #1 and #2 went OK but #3 I failed, I was way too sleepy on morning and on wrong place mostly on evenings. And I start to think that for #4 real IR camera is needed, it's too hard to shoot without being able to compose and focusing using the focus scale IR-mark AND with 30-240s shutter speeds.
If I could do the trip again, I would concentrate only to Clare, Galway and Mayo counties - and also would consider to visit either Giant Causeway (+Antrim vallyes/creeks) OR Killarney national park (and it's surroundings) if I would have more time available. I didn't find the Wicklow county very interesting. Of course these are my personal preferences and I clearly prefer nature over culture. Also it would help to go to holiday more rested, I spent most mornings sleeping since I just not get up from the bed.
Some category #1 (Hills/mountains in changing light) images;
Ireland - Co. Offaly 04 - Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2/35 @ f/7.1, 1/100s, ISO 100:
Ireland - Co. Galway 14 - Carl Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/100 @ f/11, 1/50s, ISO 100 (the foreground is not oversharpened or anything done in post processing, I took 23 exposure of this same scene during 20 minute period waiting the correct light what I wanted to have in foreground, in any of the other photos the foreground wan't as "painterly" as in this one):
Ireland - Co. Offaly 02 - Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/50 @ f/11, 1/30s, ISO 100:
Ireland - Co. Dublin - Argdillan Castle yard, Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2/35 @ f/5.6, 1/2000s, ISO 200:
Ireland - Co. Galway 07 - Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/21 @ f/11, 1/125s, ISO 100:
Ireland - Co. Mayo - Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/50 @ f/8, 1/125s, ISO 100:
Ireland - Co. Galway 01 - Carl Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/100 @ f/11, 1/60s, ISO 100:
Samuli
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Yesterday in the studio my fiance was working, and I just setup the lights around her, as a sort of color test for the video I'm going to be working on with her, and from there I just took some stills and I liked the way the 35 handled the scene so figured why not post. If anyone was wondering in the background is a Heidelberg Windmill model T taking up a bit of real-estate in the studio. Also a German engineered piece of machinery, kinda like Zeiss glass.. Also I seen your 21 beach snot, it looks like a fantastic place, especially for fashion with those rocks, I see a photo shoot in your future using the 100 MP ZE 
