Todd asked about the 85mm f1.4 ..... shame he didn't follow through on the one available (but I do understand why)
Thought I would shoot a few pix on my favourite triune of lenses
85mm f1.4, 105mm f1.8, and 135mm f2 .... all Ai-s
As some may know I am partial to a wee dram and some light Photo reading, even if it is in French !!
So here are a couple of pix from each ..... sorry if it breaks the four shot ruling ...
Steve
Nikon camera - Nikon lenses only
(Practicing alcoholic - just not got it right yet)
f/4 That is sacrilege with these three lenses. I want to see those shots taken wide open... though I understand if you were "under the weather" you might have had difficulty focusing the camera... Perhaps you need focus peaking...
Ken Hill wrote:
Thanks for the likes and the comments. Some good natured banter these last several pages.
The day before we went to Staunton we stopped at Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright's design for a house on a small waterfall in south western Pennsylvania. The tour of the house seemed to prohibit photography so we opted for a tour of the grounds.
Disappointing is the words I'd use to describe the place. Shrubbery was way overgrown, giving no opportunity to catch decent views of the house.
So here it goes!
Small world Ken. I watched a couple of YouTube videos last week showing Fallingwater design and construction. I spent a year of graduate study in architecture at the University of Washington, then years later worked at the Marin County Civic Center that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright did some amazing work. It was too bad you couldn't take photos inside the home. What a stunning setting for a home which was originally a sort of summer retreat for a family that spent the week in the city running a their department store. Thanks for this set.
bruni wrote:
Jose - thank you. nice to see you back.
James - thank you. They're all different presets. The last one has a bit of fade.
Peter - love those sky shots - both of them, but especially the night one. the car shots with the 180 are very dramatic.
George - I do love a bit of bike porn. You guys have much fancier bikes than I. Handmade german tyres? really? does the Df allow you to set the Neopan preset in camera?
Steve - I assume you're just switching bottles between the shots or are you drinking all those whiskeys - if you're drinking them, then congrats sir, I'm amazed you could keep focus by the last pic.
Don't let the hype of the Made in Germany label fool you They are just standard albeit very good tires. Nothing fancy.
Re: the Neopan profile. You can make custom profiles and upload them to the Df and I am sure other Nikon cameras. Although I do not use Nikon software and haven't for many years, there are free tools from them to do it.
However, I use an online tool (not Nikon sponsored as far as I know). Very handy and I have enjoyed tinkering with it.
gbohannon wrote:
Don't let the hype of the Made in Germany label fool you They are just standard albeit very good tires. Nothing fancy.
Re: the Neopan profile. You can make custom profiles and upload them to the Df and I am sure other Nikon cameras. Although I do not use Nikon software and haven't for many years, there are free tools from them to do it.
However, I use an online tool (not Nikon sponsored as far as I know). Very handy and I have enjoyed tinkering with it.
thanks George - very interesting (going to file that away for when nikon release their mirrorless next year). I looked at my tyres and it turns out they're German too - but it doesn't say they're hand made.
Reagan wrote:
Samy,
Wasn't there a battle there during
"The War of Northern Aggression"
Reagan
Harpers Ferry is a beautiful spot and well worth a visit if you are in the area!
Several battles took place here during "The War of Northern Aggression". However it is most famous for being the place where Lt Col.Robert E Lee commanded and led a force of 87 U.S. Marines in the apprehension of abolitionist John Brown and his followers. Brown and his men had attacked and captured a weapons arsenal in Harpers Ferry. Following his capture Brown was taken to nearby Charles Town where he was tried, found guilty of treason, and hung.
Lee's aide-de-camp during this operation was another famous to be Confederate officer, Lt J.E.B. Stuart. This was in 1859 before "The War of Northern Aggression" and both Lee and Stuart were still in the U.S. Army.
Also Harpers Ferry is not far from the Antietam Battlefield at Sharpsburg, MD where the bloodiest single day battle of the War was fought September 17th, 1862. (22,717 dead, wounded and missing.) The National Park Service has done a wonderful job in laying out the battlefields, the combatants, and their locations. It too is a great place for a walking and photographic tour.
And that my friends ends my history lesson for today!
Jack
July 26th 105mm f1.8 ais
I thought this lens is pretty common in this thread - the 28mm f2.8 ais
Then a coke can for a frame of reference...
My four chickens lay extra large eggs...his head is about the same size
Looks like we may name him Hamish - here he is with his mother almost exactly one month ago. She also is tiny - only 4-5 pounds.
June 27th 135mm f2.0 ai + 1.4x tc
bruni wrote:
yes, and he's great against the white background. But with no reference point he doesn't look that small, especially in the second pic.
ben
gbohannon wrote:
Don't let the hype of the Made in Germany label fool you They are just standard albeit very good tires. Nothing fancy.
I just paid $50 for a single tire made in Germany (Conti). It has a Kevlar sleeve to resist intrusions like broken glass—a regular hazard about here. As for multinational bikes, it's nothing new: mine dates to 1982 and has French tubes and wheels, German rubber, Japanese groupset, and Italian headset. We've come a long way from sew-ups.
Nikkor 800/8 AI-S, D3X, f/16, one studio light, background treatments.
The second one is an heavy crop from an horizontal picture, still retaining 21MP, one of the pros of an high MP camera is that it can sometimes put photographer mistakes right.
Samy - Looks like you must have some time off, you're getting around quite a bit. Beautiful images you shared. I'm looking forward to seeing your film shots.
Jim - These shots of the kitten are much better. My, that thing is small! We had a stray kitten, not much bigger than that show up one morning under the chicken coop. It was so hungry it kept coming out to eat chicken food along side of the chickens. Barbara put a live trap out and she caught it in only a couple of minutes. Now, it's the best cat we have ever had.
Lieutenant Z wrote:
That 20mm forces you to get closer, that's great.
yeah and look at the terrified expressions when I do. No, no, I want a telephoto......I want to be well back, take my time, think about it, think about life, have coffee, enjoy the view....and when I'm ready, quietly press the shutter unobserved.
bruni wrote:
yeah and look at the terrified expressions when I do. No, no, I want a telephoto......I want to be well back, take my time, think about it, think about life, have coffee, enjoy the view....and when I'm ready, quietly press the shutter unobserved.
That is sacrilege with these three lenses. I want to see those shots taken wide open... though I understand if you were "under the weather" you might have had difficulty focusing the camera... 
Perhaps you need focus peaking... 
They are just standard albeit very good tires. Nothing fancy.
