I took a walk through a local wooded park yesterday. It was overcast, so not much light. I shot these with a ful spectrum Nikon Z7, 590nm filter, Tri-X B&W picture style and slight adjustments in PS.
The lens used was the Nikon pre-ai 50mm f2 which is quickly becoming my favorite lens and focal length.
Harold Carlson wrote:
I took a walk through a local wooded park yesterday. It was overcast, so not much light. I shot these with a ful spectrum Nikon Z7, 590nm filter, Tri-X B&W picture style and slight adjustments in PS.
The lens used was the Nikon pre-ai 50mm f2 which is quickly becoming my favorite lens and focal length.
Welcome to the thread Harold. Love the look of these. Tri-X was my B&W film of choice back in the day, the processing you did looks a lot like it.
asiostygius wrote:
Wow James, great results with the 600mm f5.6 and tc-16a.
I never had so good results like yours with this combo. Are you using the mod semi-AF or the unmodded TC16A?
Thanks Jose. I have two modified TC-16a's that give me semi-AF with virtually all my manual focus lenses. I have had even better results with lower ISO (this was at 800), brighter light, and higher shutter speeds (this was at 1/250th). I prefer the shutter to be at least equal to the focal length - or 1/1000th of a second minimum for the 960mm EFL. Conditions I don't get often enough.
These are of one of my favorite birds (Chick-A-Dee) shot the same day and time as the Blue Jay.
A week later I had a better table top tripod, better ball head, and even though the shutter speed was at 1/125th of a second - I was able to lower the ISO to 500. To me. the IQ improvement is noticable.
Harold Carlson wrote:
I took a walk through a local wooded park yesterday. It was overcast, so not much light. I shot these with a ful spectrum Nikon Z7, 590nm filter, Tri-X B&W picture style and slight adjustments in PS.
The lens used was the Nikon pre-ai 50mm f2 which is quickly becoming my favorite lens and focal length.
Welcome to the MFNG thread, Harold. The central tree in your third photo looks quite important, with the trees on either side bowing to it!
Here are a few images from Olympic Park, courtesy of the 24 f/2.8 NC and the Lens Turbo II on my Fuji X-T4.
Milt - I especially like that wonderful arboretum photo with that huge slightly leaning tree with the slightly leaning person getting their picture taken. That progression of yellow at the top, then green, then yellow at the bottom is remarkable. Great elements!
Starting to sift through a weekend wedding at an old farmhouse on the Eastern Shore of MD. Fun to shoot but a lot of family (which involved AF!) 28-50mm in macro mode.
Most of our fall colors are gone, so I figured I'd go mushroom hunting.
We don't get very many colorful/photogenic ones compared to the deciduous forest of back east or Europe, or maybe the rainforests of the NW. The is the best I could muster yesterday:
Mushrooms-9x16 by Doug Stevens, on Flickr
55 f2.8 micro @ f11; Nikon Df; iso 100. focus stacked (rather poorly) in photoshop.
It was fun going out with the Df again - it has been way too long
Thank you Roberto for sharing, Lancias are very well made cars with a unique and refined engine. We had a few in El Salvador back in the 1960s. That Zagato is one classy car!
Harold Carlson wrote:
I took a walk through a local wooded park yesterday. It was overcast, so not much light. I shot these with a ful spectrum Nikon Z7, 590nm filter, Tri-X B&W picture style and slight adjustments in PS.
The lens used was the Nikon pre-ai 50mm f2 which is quickly becoming my favorite lens and focal length.
HCE HCE wrote:
Milt - I especially like that wonderful arboretum photo with that huge slightly leaning tree with the slightly leaning person getting their picture taken. That progression of yellow at the top, then green, then yellow at the bottom is remarkable. Great elements!
GroWeb wrote:
Welcome to the MFNG thread, Harold. The central tree in your third photo looks quite important, with the trees on either side bowing to it!
Here are a few images from Olympic Park, courtesy of the 24 f/2.8 NC and the Lens Turbo II on my Fuji X-T4.
Most of our fall colors are gone, so I figured I'd go mushroom hunting.
We don't get very many colorful/photogenic ones compared to the deciduous forest of back east or Europe, or maybe the rainforests of the NW. The is the best I could muster yesterday:
