SiMuMe wrote:
Incredible place, Serge. Great that you had the 16mm with you. When I saw the first picture I thought the columns where fancy curtains, hahaha. Lovely pictures.
Thank you, Siphiwe.
It is an incredible work of art and very glad that we were able to travel there.
Te 16/3.5 goes everywhere with me. It s a cracker of a lens.
There are 56 panels decorating the majority of the marble cathedral's floor carved over a period of six centuries. I would have loved to have seen the good stuff beneath the protective coverings.
Quite a few are similar in theme and selected these for their diversity.
saph wrote:
Agreed with Leighton, the third one really shows off the 55 1.2 crt.
What I see in my limited experience with using the CRT for flowers is that it combines a mostly smooth out of focus image with a plane of incredible sharpness that intersects the flowers at a few locations. These spots of super sharpness can make the photo super interesting, but only if well placed, and only if the image is large enough to see them.
Using it for stacking, taking advantage of natural light seems a good use as well, but not a walk-around one.
I was walking here, shooting against the sun for translucency:
These two photos I really like, the bird of paradise has only a few sharp spots that validate the entire translucent shape. The immediate OOF is very natural and smooth.
But of course, lenses are fine, but only a small part of a good image. A $75 Nikkor S 5cm 2.0 with better light and better flower make a better photo than the $1,000 CRT.
Nicely captured set of images.
