Samuli Vahonen
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 p.96 #9 · ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!) | |
Makten wrote:
I took the 50 Planar with me as my only lens on a little trip to middle-northern Sweden this weekend. I really liked the idea of restricting myself to a lens that doesn't do anything "spectacular".
I would disagree about planar 50 not being "spectacular" - the most spectacular feature of it's to render scenes lifelike way making viewer to feel watching real thing not flat photo. For some odd reason the mushroom picture was my favorite of these.
charles.K wrote:
Samuli, Amazing shots! Love the shots, and PP.
Thanks - thou only photo needed PP was Ireland - Co. Offaly 02. In this photo I used polarizer and direct sunlight to lens and polarizer caused enormous countrast loss --> I used my cap to shade the lens, but since sun was almost in the frame the cap was visible in the photo blocking few hundred pixels (on fullsize photo) on top left corner. Then I took other photo at 1/40s (main exposure was 1/30s) without shading the lens to have that black part of the sky also recorded. Then in Photo Shop I aligned the sky of the two images, create layer masks and fixed rest with content aware fill.
This is the bad thing about shading the lens with cap, but no matter how good the coatings are any lens benefits from this technique. If not using polarizer it's typically enough to shade so that the edge of shadow of the cap is just covering the aperture, assuming you don't use ANY filter and keep your front lens dustless. With polarizer I always shade the whole filter.
All other photos are adjusted with my default settings in Apple Aperture (if I posted some HDR images they are naturally processed in HDR software). To me one of the greatest features in Zeiss lenses is the little need for any PP. Due to my extreme demanding work I think I would have given up photography if I would have continued with Canon L, I find it so annoying to tweak images in computer that I have hard time justifying any extra minute to do that. For example in Ireland I took about 800 photos during 4 days, then in Aperture I got 41 images worth 4 or 5 stars after initial go through. Time spend at that moment was about 45 minutes, including extraction of GPS locator track in PC laptop (my GPS tracker is Windows only), moving gpx file to Mac, then downloading photos from compact flash and adding GPS tags to images with exiftool in addition to importing to Apple Aperture and giving points from 1 to 5 to images. Whole processing (adjustments in Aperture, export to TIFF, PhotoShop resize and sharpen script) of these 41 images took about 1h 30 minutes, and it includes addition of metadata tags nad many HDRs images, one panorama and one image needed Photo Shop.
charles.K wrote:
Some more with ZE 21.
I liked the last photo calmness. The foreground looks weird - where did you focus and what aperture was used?
philber wrote:
Now you tell me, Samuli!!! When you came to Paris, you claimed to love your 28 and to battle with your 21. So I bought a 28, thinking that, if it is good enough for the great Samuli Vahonen, it must be much better than good enough for lesser photographers...and I just felt incompetent trying to get comfortable with it as a city walk-about lens.... meanwhile, you post more than delightful pics from your 21....
To me the difficulty of 28 is that it includes so much stuff in urban environment, but it's not yet ultrawide (like 21) due to which it don't get "boost" from perspective effects. Many years my most used lens was 135L even I had 1.6x crop, then it took few years to learn to see with 50mm (full frame). I still have hard time composing in my mind without camera for any lens wider than 35mm, I'm not sure will I never learn it. Thankfully live view makes it easy to position camera to many places and when good composition found then I can put my tripod there - thou I would prefer to see the compositions without camera like I do with longer lenses.
I was earlier little doubtful of 28ZE, but this spring and Ireland trip confirmed to me that 28ZE is as good as 2.8/28C/Y.
28mm photo, which doesn't seem to be as good in webthumbnailsize as it was on Apple Aperture at 2560x1600, but still shows the colors etc.
Ireland - Co. Galway 19 - Carl Zeiss Distagon 2/28 @ f/9, 1/80s, ISO 100:
Samuli
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By the way, Rufus the cat, was asleep! 
I've never seen a cat sleeping in that sort of "position" before. 
