Thanks Ray. Yes, the background was planned or at least preconceived before setting up. Knowing how the Noct renders wide open, I shot the bike with the woods/trees in the background with the points of light coming between the leaves. Big bokeh balls
I did some shots stopped down to increase the sharpness of the bike components but then the background showed aperture shaped highlights.
The great thing about digital and mirrorless. WYSIWYG.
George
pbraymond wrote:
Great execution of the swing, and a very suitable subject. Did you arrange for the bokeh in the bg too?
And the two way off in the background standing up and saying "HEY LOOK AT ME!"
reminds me that the local sunflower field should be in bloom soon, too.
pbraymond wrote:
What a pleasant surprise to open up this morning and find some lively activity here. Will need to come back for comments, but here's a typical sunflower field shot, with a 24mm f2.8 AIS. https://www.pbraymond.com/img/s/v-10/p196968207-6.jpg
yep, I'm fried. Management is not known for caring how you feel, what restrictions you have, gets pissed if you happen to have medical appointments, but will yell at you for getting the work done in OT, but then yell at you for not getting the work done. Looking at the next bid cycle to see if I can bid out of this station, I'm done with management there. I liked what I was doing but I haven't been doing that since I came back from surgery.
Those are my favorites, the local place here plants the short ones that are barely above my waist, now. They used to plant the tall ones.
Thanks, and yes they are. Even more intimidating is that the majority of the blooms were way above my head, this shot was taken with my feet probably three to four feet off the ground, standing on the railings of a cart that was used as a viewing platform.
James Markus wrote:
Before I put away the Nikkor 600mm f5.6 ais I shot a few Crows. For a couple months Barb gave them cashews, bread, fruit, and other "snacky snacks". I literally have thousands of crow photos, and it spurred a Corvidae family GTG in my backyard. Besides the obvious Blue Jays, about 4 varieties of "Black birds" came to see the "Candy Lady" - I assume this is Barb's nickname among the Corvidae. Occasionally, A crow or two land in the Tulip tree I planted and give off loud calls, and not feed daily as they had before.
In health news - my eyes are the best they have been since October 2023. Thank all of you for your prayers and well wishes....Show more →
rafaelcasd wrote:
I thought I would do a posting of weird MF nikkors. I use adapters, helicoids, and the K rings to bring these onto focus on the Z cameras.
First the 70mm 1:5 Micro Nikkor, maybe the sharpest lens I own for normal distances.
Raphael - that is an incredible series showing your love for the lenses and the results than can be achieved with, I am certain, a huge amount of patience. Thank you for sharing
20mm f3.5 AI with a healthy dose of flare. I suspect that the focus ring is mis-calibrated somehow, or I'm way too picky in digital when I can pixel peep. But shooting with a selected f-stop, and setting infinity at one stop larger than the shooting f-stop, I still get softness in things farther out, not even close to infinity but maybe 150-200' out, like in this shot.
GroWeb wrote:
I'm going to end my day by posting what is apparently my 1000th post. The photos below are from the Duncan truck show, courtesy of my Fuji X-T4 with the 25-50 f/4 Ai-s. The fourth photo was taken in the smithy that is a permanent fixture of the place where the truck show is staged each year.
Love the fully open glow in the golden truck Glen.
GeorgeBo wrote:
Rafael - still waiting for you to open up that Nikon museum in San Diego
Jim - Good contrast. I like how the trunk of the trees just pop.
Glen - great series. I really like the rendering on the first one
Matt - I still have not made it back to the coast this year. One trip was canceled due to weather, so back to the mountains it was. One of the benefits of being in North Carolina. But I can always enjoy your images
Ray - Outstanding!
I will dedicate one room open to the public and open the museum as soon as you donate your rangefinder lenses and the Noct, George!
I am a lover not just of relative rarities, but of all lenses including the RF 5cm 1.4 S.C. These are not the sharpest lenses but they make for an interesting and pleasing rendition.
A few with the D850 and 50mm f2 ai lens from this morning's wander. You may wonder why the high iso? Well, it was early in the morning, overcast (and smokey), so it was dark. I was just too lazy to change the ISO when I opened up the lens' aperture I like the noise, actually.
NIKON D8500 mm f/-- lens50mmf/2.01/2000s3200 ISO-0.7 EV
NIKON D8500 mm f/-- lens50mmf/2.01/4000s1600 ISO-0.7 EV
NIKON D8500 mm f/-- lens50mmf/2.01/4000s1600 ISO-0.7 EV
Harold Carlson wrote:
A few with the D850 and 50mm f2 ai lens from this morning's wander. You may wonder why the high iso? Well, it was early in the morning, overcast (and smokey), so it was dark. I was just too lazy to change the ISO when I opened up the lens' aperture I like the noise, actually.
Really like the last one Harold, I am beginning to like noise grain myself.
If you have a low intensity oscilloscope screen, particularly a Cathode Ray Tube, (hence CRT) you can hardly do any better. highly corrected for focus and distortion at close distances.
I like the noise, actually.
