Dreamy impressions from Lorraine/France (Reims, Nancy, Metz)

[kds315]

From a short trip to the Lorraine region in France and to Reims, Nancy and Metz.





















all shot using Lumix GH1 and selfmade quartz soft focus lens.

 

[woodmancy]

Lovely images, Klaus - that looks to be a fun lens to use

Keith

 

[kds315]

A bit tricky to use though, as softness, focus and exposure (aperture setting) interact.

 

[simonclivehughes]

Klaus,

Those are fascinating! How do you achieve the amount of in-focus? Is it related to aperture? Love to see a picture of your lens.

Cheers,

 

[kds315]

Yes, the aperture setting controls the amount of softness and at the same time the point of sharp focus (not really a point though...) changes, so to get all that in-line is a bit tricky. But I know that from very old soft focus lenses I have (my Spencer Portland being one of them). so I'm used to that. Actually you step down and control the soft focus degree and focus then - not the other was round.

You won't see much, just a standard focusing mount plus the barrel of an old enlarger lens...

 

[Michiel Schierbeek]

Really nice Klaus! The third and fourth are my favourites.

Michiel

 

[seakayaker]

Beautiful shots Klaus!

I do like the outdoor daylight shots a lot with the soft blur from the center focus. :thumbs:

Life is Grand!

Dan
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[kweide]

Great work.
Can you give us some more infos about that selfmade quartz softfocus lens ?? Sound very interesting !

Regards
Klaus

 

[kds315]

Thanks guys!

I used an old enlarger lens with round multiblade aperture, removed the optics, fitted a quartz lens (f1.0 btw.) inside and mounted that to a focusing helicoid - that's all I can say about it.

 

[Diane B]

Doing anything to alter lenses is definitely NOT my forte' LOL, but I really like these Klaus. Lovely and thanks for sharing.

Diane

 

[kds315]

Thanks Diane, appreciate your words! I haven't started like that, just after many years one gets a bit more willing to experiment and leave the oh too well known paths...

 

[kds315]

A few more, "verticals" in that case.