Happy Monday friends. Yesterday I decided to dust off the 28mm f2 Non AI (AI-ed) and mount on my D610. I think couple of pages back, we were speaking about organic bokeh., and I think this is a great lens for that kind of stuff.
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Need to follow the above colors cape with another. 20mm f/3.5 AIS again. It tends to have some moments when it works really well, other times I wonder why the distant focus seems softer than closer to the lens, even when shot at infinity and f/8.0 or even f/11.0. It is too random to be lens design, because here at f/5.6 it didn't do that.
Best camp site of 2017, and one of my top to night locations in the High Sierra, as long as the lightning stays away...
f/5.6 1/60s ISO 100 on D810. I think handheld, because the hiking poles I used with the tripod rig I had along are in the image
I read in the news that Cape Town (and hopefully your area) is getting RAIN. Wishing you well and hopefully the reservoirs will soon fill up!
Hi Ken
Thanks for the thoughts. , Knysna is OK and there is enough water but we are on restrictions. Cape Town is in a much more difficult position but D- day has been staved off for a while and some water is being pumped into storage dams from some distance. Cape Town is 320 miles from Knysna and has a very different climate - predominantly winter rainfall and very dry summers whereas Knysna should have year round rain.
metal bridge railings make good tripods. Overcast helps with images like this one as well, although it's nowhere as dramatic as the real scene, with thousands of tons of water crashing down a mountain right below you. The last time I crossed that bridge was in July of 1988 on my first Muir Trial hike.
Thanks for the thoughts. , Knysna is OK and there is enough water but we are on restrictions. Cape Town is in a much more difficult position but D- day has been staved off for a while and some water is being pumped into storage dams from some distance. Cape Town is 320 miles from Knysna and has a very different climate - predominantly winter rainfall and very dry summers whereas Knysna should have year round rain.
However as we are told climate change is a myth
All the best
Peter
Glad rains are helping. I was watching the India vs South Africa - Pink day Cricket match that got affected by the rain on Johannesburg. The next match is at Port Elizabeth.
I will share one more photo. This time I used the 135mm f2 lens but stopped it down to f5.6. This was because I had to put the photo on self timer and manually focus down based on distance guesstimate.
Outcome isnt bad though cant say the same about the model :P (5 month beard and growing) Pondering by Ramkumar Sangameshwar, on Flickr
Ram, I watched the game too until the dark clouds interrupted it. While watching the game I looked up how far Knysna is from Cape Town, it was about 300 miles west I think. Hopefully the rains will be sufficient this season to help the region get over the drought.
The 28mm f3.5 PC reached home this afternoon. Just wanted to do a size comparision between the early 35mm f3.5 PC and this 28mm. I will try to do some comparative snaps before putting the 35mm f3.5 PC on B&S.
That lens served me well but given that I am going to have a wider option, its better to put it for sale and have someone use it.
Some spectacular landscape shots of late with the repeat from Ronny and new work by Jay and Peter, who once again dazzles us with his trekking shots. I watched a few videos of folks traversing the John Muir trail and I'm more than impressed at what you tackle over and over again. If I'd discovered those videos when I was a young man, I don't think I could have resisted giving it a try... though even as a young man I wasn't much of an athlete, so it would likely have remained a pipe dream. But I definitely get pleasure vicariously from seeing your photos.
Wonderful seeing you on the thread as well Alan. Definitely enjoying all the airplanes and space photos.
We had some quite warm weather recently, but it began to cool off this weekend. But I noted the clouds close to the horizon as I glanced along Strawberry Point looking toward downtown San Francisco. It really called to me, so I drove the road riding the edge of the Bay and stopped to grab a few photos. Here is a seven photo panorama reduced from around 20,000 pixels to 1600. Consider this a preview of coming attractions Chin...
And here is a fellow pulling his scull through what is no doubt a very chilly Bay. These were shot with the 105 f/1.8 AI-s. I wish I'd had something longer, like the 180, but this was the longest in my camera bag.
