Sometime before midnight (whatever time zone you are in) this Sunday, 9 April 2017, post the best photo you have taken this week. Any subject, any style—just give us your best shot.
If you can, list your EXIF info and any special lighting setups you may have used.
P.S. Come play with us in the editing exercises (and feel free to play around in the old exercises too).
P.P.S. Peter is running a fun single lens challenge that we are all invited to participate in.
Was under the weather on this day and had no inclination to venture out into the storms. I stalked every room in the house hoping to scare up something to photograph. I saw this photo and decided to take a shot. I think it turned out rather well. A bit of a challenge to get the right angle and to avoid any onboard flash, flash back.
Thanks for viewing. A photo reproduction.
Pentax k100D Super body with SMC Pentax-DA 18~55mm AL F/3.5~5.6 Lens.
1/60s, F/5.6, ISO @ 200, focal length @ 55mm. used onboard flash with Spot Metering.
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I have been shooting film the last couple of weeks. I need to get the rolls processed now. I did carry one of my DSLR's along yesterday. I went out shooting anything and everything. . While at an old pre civil war plantation house there was a wedding photog shooting the after ceremonies. This lady as twirling and strutting so I swung around from the flowers and caught her in mid twirl. I wish I had been straighter on to eliminate the perspective distortion the columns. But that was not possible. This is a tight crop of the original shot to remove one of her photographers and others that were near by her.
K-S2 Tamron 90
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Spring has Sprung! And these trees waited out the Killer Frost.
Nikkor 10.5cm F2.5, wide-open of the Df.
Nikkor 10.5cm F2.5 by fiftyonepointsix, on Flickr
This lens was bought for parts, was was going to use the rear element in another lens. BUT- the glass was just too nice "except" for haze. I found online instructions for taking it apart, flood cleaning and relubing the helical, getting to inner surfaces of the glass, and "chiseled" the aperture ring back into the round. These lenses are built.
Nikkor 10.5cm F2.5 by fiftyonepointsix, on Flickr
Nikkor 10.5cm F2.5 by fiftyonepointsix, on Flickr
A lens that you don't have to worry about scratching the paint.
Nikkor 10.5cm F2.5 by fiftyonepointsix, on Flickr
More Scratches than Paint: but the glass is really good.
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Like them all... but have you considered using fill flash maybe a half stop down for scenes like 1 and 2?
These shots- a test to see if the lens worked, ran out late with the Sun low. I shot with the aperture across range, to make sure it stopped down after working on the mechanism.
It's been a while since I used fill-flash, I've looked at some of the LED ring lights. My SB-29 works with the E3 and the N8008s.
At F5.6-
Nikkor 10.5cm F2.5 by fiftyonepointsix, on Flickr
The Aperture is "distinctive", I have the same lens in Rangefinder mount has many more aperture blades, the out of focus areas stay round.
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Nikkor 10.5cm F2.5 by fiftyonepointsix, on Flickr
The Aperture is "distinctive", I have the same lens in Rangefinder mount has many more aperture blades, the out of focus areas stay round.
Do any modern lenses have 'loads' of aperture blades? I seem to remember my Leitz 9cm Elmar had 14 or 15! What's the most you've come across?
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These days "9" aperture blades is a load.The Nikkor 50/1.2 and AF-Nikkor 58/1,4 have 9. In the RF world: the lower end Jupiter-8 50/2 has 9 blades.
For those shooting mirrorless: older RF lenses have lots of aperture blades, smoother out-of-focus areas.
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These days "9" aperture blades is a load.The Nikkor 50/1.2 and AF-Nikkor 58/1,4 have 9. In the RF world: the lower end Jupiter-8 50/2 has 9 blades.
For those shooting mirrorless: older RF lenses have lots of aperture blades, smoother out-of-focus areas.
Apparently the Novoflex 400mm f5.6 has 24!!!
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