charles.K: Thanks! Great set of pictures you posted, feels SO real! #4 of your last set is amazing!
rsolti13: Lovely set!
denoir: I agree, sometimes the Velvia gives stunning results. I've yet to try underexposing, will do I like the fence picture, stunning tones. Also love that swan shot and the last one you posted!
singletrack: #3 is my fav!
M2 +Cron 50 + Velvia 50.
Some minor cropping. Also added some saturation on the latter.
Charles, excellent shots! The beautiful portrait, was it with flash or just available light? Great PP, beautiful model. The last set on the beach is just plain beautiful. #3 is my favorite....that is the 28 Cron? Great rendering
Luka, great shots. The bokeh of the 50 Lux is probably the best I have ever seen. I too have been finding myself significantly boosting the blacks/contrast.
Malkovic, great shots. Love the colors from film. I just don't have the patience
Charles, love the last set! Pure Magic!
Luka, wow - love them all - your compositional powers are amazing!
Malkovic- the colours are awesome - feeling the need to try a film camera soon!
Some random shots for the weekend (all with the 50 lux ASPH):
Cheers
kl
Don't cha just hate it when your internet connection resorts back to 56K speeds. This thread temps me with text and voids of grey.
Here is my M8 paired with my Noct...First time I have ever put it on a digital M. This combo will be interesting.
The last one definitely screams Noctilux! It's weird how its personality comes and goes. FWIW, that was shot maybe 4-5 ft away? Definitely going to experiment some more with that one. Oh yeah, these were all shot wide open. Not to bad. My 85L has proven to give me some skill. That manual focus ring is horrible on that lens. Ugh!
rsolti13 wrote:
Its Ryan...not Ron. Yes, Bonaventure is an excellent cemetery for photos.....I wish they were open at night
Oops! That's what I meant. I'm in North Carolina and if we ever decide on a trip back to Savannah, I'll shoot you a pm and we could go shooting.
Perhaps Julian got my name from the comment I made about enjoying cemetery photography back a page or two... you know, Ron, Ryan, whatever. Most people call me Rob. I think Ryan is about the third most common name I get. I've also been called Paul and Greg.
Very nice light in that series Charles! Really like the last one, but all are very good.
Luka, also very nice. I like the framing in #1 and #2 reminds me of similar grasses I photographed a couple days ago, though my images didn't work out as nicely as yours.
Malkovic: Lovely. I too liked Velvia a lot and wish it had been available at 100 ISO when I was shooting film. But like Ryan, I can't see myself going back to it. Compared to digital, my analog work is way too disorganized and I'd never keep on top of it. Heck, I still have hundreds of rolls of B&W images I have yet to print/scan and the last time I shot film was in 2002.... But there is definitely a resurgence. Same with old typewriters... it's great that someone wants to keep the technology going. It just won't be me. At least not at the moment.
KL: #1 & 3 speak to me. Interesting the boy, yet the mother looks to be wondering what you're up to. How is it in Singapore with strangers photographing children? Unfortunately over here it has become a very sensitive matter as you probably know. Everyone assumes if you have a camera you're a perv or something. Unfortunately.
Ryan, very nice feel to all of those.
Shaun, yes, the change in character is interesting. I wouldn't have guessed the first one was wide open. The DoF looks deep. But #2 is definitely interesting. The Nocti will be great for keeping the M8's ISO down
Waiting for the bus at the last M2 metro stop in Lausanne. BTW, the M2 metro line is wild. It makes severe elevation changes with a maximum 12% grade. Definitely recommended for at least heading up into town, then walking back down.
M9 & ZM35C
Edit: Looks good Julian. What software are you using? I also found it to be a bit of a learning curve, though the lower ISO M9 files are very pliable. I'm frequently cranking up the contrast and curves, etc. and now, at least with Lightroom, I find I have an easier time with the M9 files than those from my Canons (1DIII and IV). Not to say the Canon files are bad. They each have their own characteristics and I'm leaning more towards the M9. Where I take issue with the M9 & LR3 is sometimes with excessive saturation (also a consequence of increasing contrast), particularly in yellow and green (which contains a lot of yellow). And I see the effects of IR contamination fairly frequently with dark clothing shifting purplish.
^^Hehe! Thanks Ron. Honeslty I didn't do much to these files. The color version was edited in LR3. I do notice that pushing the colors is different from Canon files bcoz' I still use the 1Ds III. As for the b&w, I did most of the the editing in Nik Silver Efex Pro. Using a a different color filter, I was able to get enough contrast and blacks without over doing it.
Malkovic, nice colors - especially in the first shot.
KL, nice set - #2 is my favorite.
Ryan interesting shots with the 90 Elmarit. The OOF rendering looks very good!
Shaun, I like the second shot with the Nocti/1.. although I'm not crazy about the bokeh in the upper right corner.
Julian, nice shot with very nice colors
Ron, nice capture - as usual I like the way you use lines in your compositions
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Here are a couple of shots from a place called "The Lunatics' Palace" in Stockholm. It used to be a mental institution but now houses the teaching education faculty of the Stockholm University.
Luka, these are really nice. The birds in #2 made me laugh, the slope along with the angle of the sun is perfect in #4 and great find with the disconnected stairs in #5, which is my favourite of the series.
I've noticed the 50 Lux appears to be very well corrected for distortion. Not the usual barrel distortion I have experienced with most 50s I've used, including the ZM 50 Planar.
A funny thing happened today when I was out for a walk, shooting. Usually when I see a duck or swan or similar there's an old lady or a kid 100 meters away that starts to feed them and my quarry disappears. Today I thought I'd prevent that so I brought along a couple of slices of bread myself to pay my models. At one point I saw two funky looking ducks with a sort of punker hairstyle and tried to get their attention by throwing pieces of bread in the water. They ignored me, but two other, regular ducks appeared from nowhere. Then a swan landed. Then another. Then from apparently nowhere more and more swans gathered. This is what it looked like after a few minutes:
A couple of minutes before this shot there wasn't a single swan in sight! I have no idea how they materialized so quickly.
Once I ran out of bread to feed them with, they lost interest and the whole armada just left:
I discovered also that ducks and seagulls are apparently terrified of swans. Once the latter turned up the rest of the birds gave them generally a wide berth.
denoir wrote:
I discovered also that ducks and seagulls are apparently terrified of swans. Once the latter turned up the rest of the birds gave them generally a wide berth.
with good reason. i was surprised by that close up of the swan you posted a page or so back. that is usually the last shot a photographer gets before being knocked into the water camera and all by a swan. the constant bribery of bread for your swans must have made them friendlier towards people.
was this the punk haired duck you saw (link provided since while it was shot with a leica lens it was not on a leica camera)?
it's a muscovy duck, which is the most common type that we eat.
Luka, Malkovic, Ryan, KL and Ron ... thanks a lot guys
Luka, great set of shots! First set I love the bokeh shots with the 50 Lux and 75 Cron. The second set are stunning in graphics, composition and colour. I love every one of them ... wall hangers!
Malkovic, really nice shots! I do love the Velvia look
KL, excellent shots! I really like rich colour in the portrait. Very nice shot of downtown across the water
Ryan, really nice set! My favourites are #3 and 4. With respect to the lighting on the portrait, no flash just street lighting and the seascape shots were with the 28 Cron and 75 Lux I am really liking the 28 Cron for seascapes now!
Shaun, very nice shots! I really like #2 the fall off with the Nocti is superb.
Julian, nice shots. Congratulations As Ron, eluded to, the M9 DNG files are very different and its surprising how much you can push them!
sebboh wrote:
with good reason. i was surprised by that close up of the swan you posted a page or so back. that is usually the last shot a photographer gets before being knocked into the water camera and all by a swan. the constant bribery of bread for your swans must have made them friendlier towards people.
I actually patted a swan yesterday without it objecting. When I told this to a biologist friend of mine he informed me that only a suicidal madman would pat a swan.. I had some really weird encounters with swans the past couple of days. The swan yesterday was far away from any water and followed me around for more than 100 meters.
This wasn't far from MFD:
was this the punk haired duck you saw (link provided since while it was shot with a leica lens it was not on a leica camera)?
it's a muscovy duck, which is the most common type that we eat.
No, it was one of these:
Don't know what they are called though. They are much more shy than regular ducks.
denoir wrote:
I actually patted a swan yesterday without it objecting. When I told this to a biologist friend of mine he informed me that only a suicidal madman would pat a swan.. I had some really weird encounters with swans the past couple of days. The swan yesterday was far away from any water and followed me around for more than 100 meters.
crazy, be careful they don't follow you into a dark alley.
denoir wrote:
No, it was one of these:
Don't know what they are called though. They are much more shy than regular ducks.
I like the fence picture, stunning tones. Also love that swan shot and the last one you posted! 
ld town
That's what I meant. I'm in North Carolina and if we ever decide on a trip back to Savannah, I'll shoot you a pm and we could go shooting. 
