Thanks Scott! I can be quite the homebody at times and need to pry myself away from the computer and get out. Luckily I just have to walk 5-10 minutes down the street for the scenes I've been posting.
Phil - wow, that's also a camera I've been curious about. I don't think we've had any ladies participating here for quite some time, unfortunately.
Doug - those have a very nice feel/quality to them.
Thanks Adam, too bad about the price, but at least you found one!
Checking in on my deer herd again today (I never post cat photos, so I guess this is OK)...
Nikkor 10.5cm f/2.5 LTM (both wide open and cropped a bit):
28 Cron (slight crop):
Zeiss-Opton 50/1.5 Sonnar (some cropping):
And if that isn't enough wildlife for you, I also found this guy...
He was either senile or kind of slow... he'd get nervous every time I moved closer and would make a move for the water, but then would stop halfway, wait 15 seconds and turn around and return to the log he was chewing on. This was repeated numerous times, to my amusement and perhaps his annoyance.
His home might be the pile of wood directly above the canoe.
Both with the Nikkor 10.5cm LTM, though the beaver photo was cropped probably to about 200mm equivalent.
Gary Clennan wrote:
What a great set Ron. Those first two shots are beautiful! I am surprised by the subject separation in #1. That Nikkor 10.5cm is a really good lens.
Gary, yes there is some decent subject/background separation and the lens's long focus throw makes it pretty easy to focus accurately. These would have been much more hit or miss with my 90 Summarit. And the Nikkor is quite sharp centrally from wide open. Definitely a notch above the Zeiss-Opton at mid distances. I've thought about going down there with my Canon and a telephoto lens, but then I'd end up with typical animal 'portraits' and deer are so common anyway. I mean, it would be fun, but I get more of a kick out of doing this with a camera system you're not supposed to shoot wildlife with, particularly the challenge of seeing how close I can get for a reasonable photo within both my and the animal's comfort zones. I guess it helps they're semi-used to people, though still skittish.
The Nikkor is decent wide open at infinity, though stopping down helps a lot. But I like it best for near MFD shooting where a nicely complementary touch of SA adds subtle smoothness. Obviously, with it being a 105mm, it's going to look a lot different from a 50.
At MFD of ~4 feet:
This is the Zeiss-Opton 50/1.5 Sonnar of the same branch at MFD of ~1m, at around f/2, but on a sunny day:
He was either senile or kind of slow... he'd get nervous every time I moved closer and would make a move for the water, but then would stop halfway, wait 15 seconds and turn around and return to the log he was chewing on. This was repeated numerous times, to my amusement and perhaps his annoyance.
fantastic shots!
careful though, there was a photographer killed by a beaver recently if you can believe it.
Ron, love the 3rd pic of the leaves with blueish background! Excellent and really smooth rendering.
Allen, excellent set and nice theme with the hands! No comments on the Blackhawk pics since we just lost out to Chicago
Phil, excellent set with the 35Summaron 2.8, medium format feel to your pp, really nice. Have you made large prints from the Monochrom files? These would be gorgeous. Also, congrats on your Pentax. although if you enjoy medium format, you ought to try the S2 with the superb Leica S lenses.
Thanks Joe over 2 million at the parade today. I had a good friend that was at the last game in the Garden and said the Boston fans were gracious. It was a GREAT series.
Ron, your deer shots are awesome!
airfrogusmc, the superman shot is cool!
jojomon11, I really like your balcony shot! The Noct and Mono are amazing, just the buggy disturbs me a bit.
muc_marlin wrote:
Ron, your deer shots are awesome!
airfrogusmc, the superman shot is cool!
jojomon11, I really like your balcony shot! The Noct and Mono are amazing, just the buggy disturbs me a bit.
Thanks Allen and muc_marlin, wonderful comp again Allen on the daises!
Agree with you on the buggy, tried to crop it out, but didn't work, so I left it alone to show the noct rendering
I wish the base iso was much lower on the mono, I haven't tested it pushed down yet, but from my experience with the M9 pushed down, I didn't like the results
Excellent work!
to the slow beaver. 
