Fun with MF images - ARCHIVED - FOR VIEWING ONLY

[mjr]

I love a good storm, proper nasty weather here this morning.

Just a couple of grab shots for fun, too windy for a tripod.

 

[Kinya28]

Hokkaido 2018 Winter #13

Lightly snow covered Ranch, Teshikaga, Hokkaido, Japan

Kinya

XF, IQ3100, SK150mm

 

[Bill Caulfeild-Browne]

Bill, that's gorgeous. Excellent photo of a very photogenic cactus in bloom. Quite a contrast to those photos of Canada you regularly post.

Joe

We get Cactus in Canada too! Prickly Pear grows in southern Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta and BC. But not to the scale of Texas!

 

[tomerik1972]

"Bridge over troubled water"
Aggersund-bridge connects Aggersund and Himmerland, Denmark. This image was captured early in the morning with some fog in the air. Leica S + Summarit 35mm CS, 30s@f19

 

[etrump]

Great shot!! Just curious how you came up with f/19. Is that what you determined with live view would give the DOF you needed?

"Bridge over troubled water"
Aggersund-bridge connects Aggersund and Himmerland, Denmark. This image was captured early in the morning with some fog in the air. Leica S + Summarit 35mm CS, 30s@f19

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[tomerik1972]

Great shot!! Just curious how you came up with f/19. Is that what you determined with live view would give the DOF you needed?

Thanks for your feedback. My "old-fashion" S 006-type does not come with a live-view function. My experience is that f/19 is a very good compromise of excellent DOF and total sharpness with the 35mm lens. At f/22 the diffraction is noticeable and will have some impact on the total sharpness. Another option would of course be to do 2-3 images for focus-stacking at f/11.

 

[D&A]

"Afternoon Splendor" Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Pentax 645D; FA 45-85mm.

Dave (D&A)

 

[Michiel Schierbeek]

Amsterdam
D-FA 28-45

 

[raycox]

Amsterdam
D-FA 28-45

Michiel, You have an incredible sense of composition. Your images always amaze me. They have a compositional tension that is difficult to describe. Right down to the pigeon on the roof!

Regards, Ray

 

[dave.gt]

It seems like everything around here is old, transient, imperfect.

Even my images...

 

[Michiel Schierbeek]

Michiel, You have an incredible sense of composition. Your images always amaze me. They have a compositional tension that is difficult to describe. Right down to the pigeon on the roof!

Regards, Ray

Thank you for your kind words, Ray! I do the best I can

 

[Kinya28]

Hokkaido 2018 Winter #14

Teshikaga, Hokkaido, Japan

Kinya

XF, IQ3100, SK150mm

 

[ndwgolf]

Hokkaido 2018 Winter #13

Lightly snow covered Ranch, Teshikaga, Hokkaido, Japan

Kinya

XF, IQ3100, SK150mm

Fabulous

 

[ThoDi]

Fairtayle Forest on the baltic coast. One of the first pictures with my Phase One DF, IQ140, SK 80.

Greetings,

Thomas

 

[ThoDi]

Another one with with my Phase One DF, IQ140, SK 80. Big stone on the baltic coast.

Greetings,

Thomas

 

[WildRover]

From mid June last year here in Door County, Wisconsin.

Rick

Pentax 645D, four images merged in Lightroom then the ends cropped off some. Pentax-A 35mm, Lee hood and graduated neutral density filter - can't remember which one, ISO 100, f/13, 1/10 sec. My not so great tripod is an old, beat up, used to be a spare, aluminum 3 section Gitzo Systemic 3 something, but has become my main tripod until I can replace it with new 4 section carbon fiber legs. Tight budget these days. I use an old Gitzo Systemic leveling base with its bubble level. I can usually get pretty close but theres a lot of fumbling around if I keep moving the tripod to find a spot. For panos, after leveling the best I can, its then simple to rotate the RRS BH-55 on its panning base to shoot a series of images. My current finances keep Dante at bay, but I sure enjoy reading in the tripod section and elsewhere the futile battle others have in the inferno.

Edit: I like to be as accurate and descriptive as possible when I ramble on about things. The Pentax-A series lenses only record f/stop in the metadata and in Lightroom the lens focal length is left blank. Well…….early onset dementia I think. Pretty sure this is not the 35mm, but the Pentax-A 120mm. How could those ever be confused? It used to be that I could remember just about everything about the photos that I have taken. Now, if I don't have notes or metadata, things get a bit foggy. :loco:

 

[GrahamWelland]

"Bridge over troubled water"
Aggersund-bridge connects Aggersund and Himmerland, Denmark. This image was captured early in the morning with some fog in the air. Leica S + Summarit 35mm CS, 30s@f19

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Very well done! Love the star bursts on the light too.

 

[GrahamWelland]

Thanks for your feedback. My "old-fashion" S 006-type does not come with a live-view function. My experience is that f/19 is a very good compromise of excellent DOF and total sharpness with the 35mm lens. At f/22 the diffraction is noticeable and will have some impact on the total sharpness. Another option would of course be to do 2-3 images for focus-stacking at f/11.

If it were me I’d also stop way down for this shot to get the superb star bursts for the lights. For pure DoF I wouldn’t consider that level of stopping down necessary normally.

 

[vjbelle]

Going over some of my images from my last Italy trip. I liked this both in BW and color but BW got the nod. Looking North at Pienza within a half an hour of sunrise. I thought about cropping but the foreground adds depth.

Actus, Phase 3100, 120mm Schneider Digitar, BW processing in PS.

Victor

 

[ejpeiker]

Time for another aerial image from the northwestern part of Australia's Kimberley region. The tidal basin where the timor Sea meets the desert can make for some very interesting formations from 2000 feet up; taken straight down in a bank from a no doors helicopter (with safe quick release harness!)
P1 XF-IQ3100, SK 80mm, ISO 400, f/8, 1/2000s