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After Squamish mentioned the "cat-eye bokeh" of the Zeiss 100mm, I noticed the 85mm f/1.8G has a similar effect, ending before f/2.8. Also, this was shot with tracking AF while dodging the front of the canoe...
D800 - AF-S 85mm f/1.8G - f/2 - ISO 800 - 1/800sec
Last one from this series. Promised. :) I'll upload some new material over the long weekend.
El_Pickerel: sorry to say, but I have never found "cat's eye" bokeh all that attractive and have never found any reason to produce it in a photo. it is a distortion, after all, of a bright spot which usually shows as a circle in "normal" bokeh. What is so wonderful about seeing a distortion of a circle? Zeiss calls it vignetting - when the normal circle is obstructed by the side of the lens barrel when the lens is wide open.
"At the edge of the photo iris images are also altered by vignetting if the light cones going to the edge of the photo at wide apertures are intersected by front or rear parts of the lens barrel or by the limited diameter of rear and front elements::"
I find smooth creamy bokeh with no real circles or "cat's eye" or "hot spots" to be the most pleasing of bokeh. It seems a hazy day with a distant background produces the best bokeh to my eye. Maybe that it a topic for a thread. What is the best bokeh and how do you produce it? You did a nice job with your photo and proved the worth of autofocus. If you had popped up your flash for fill flash would that have taken some of the yellowness out of the face?
@ JorPet: I shoot a Tamron SP 200-500 F5-6.3 on a D300
@ Donaldejose: I think I am part robot :)
So I took 8 shots of this deer. 4 were as sharp, 4 were blurry. At F8 and 20 feet I only had about 2" DOF so 3 of the 4 had the nose more in focus than the eyes... Must be my sobriety or my craziness of working 10-12 hour days and getting up every morning to spend 2 hours in the woods before going to work :)
Great use of the background scene, El_Pickerel. The lit up parts where the cat's eye bokeh is turned out really nice. Its great that you got some expression out of the subject as he was laboring his way along with the canoe. :]
D800 • ZF.2 100mm f2 @ f2.5 • 1/160 • ISO 200
For Thanksgiving Day. Not the Pilgrims, but close.
A Quaker Meeting House constructed in 1789 and in continuous use for 223 years. Stone doesn't rot!
D7000, 28-80 f3.3-5.6G lens at 28mm and f3.5.
Thanks for the Flickr comments, I've left a few myself. You'all are truly inspirational. Happy Thanksgiving to all who observe tomorrow.
@ SquamishPhoto, that's a very unique photo to my eye - with the focused & unfocused foreground plants, subject, then smoother background. Her look is hypnotic.
D800 , 100mm Zeiss Makro Planar T* ZF.2, 1/160, f/5, ISO 640, SB-900 in a LumiQuest Softbox III camera left.
@JorPet - yes, it is my own variation of something you'll find quite easily online as the "Orton" effect. It can be of great impact also when shooting people in a landscape/natural background, but you need to apply it differentiated and with some maskings (background vs person).
@Pippigurl, @El_Pickerel, @SqueamiPhoto, @donaldejose wow I like the color and tone of all your images. Nice captures. @Coastalconn, that's one heck of a sharp image. Wish I could handhold as steady as that.
@Rx4Photo @benji2505, love your monochrome. Love the contrast.
Amazing photos.
Here's another from the series of kid's stuff. This one I failed to nail the focus. it must have landed in one of the water spouts instead of the kid's eyes or that very slow shutter speed. Must be the latter. I just cannot make myself throw away this image. I find it too compelling to hit the delete button. Can I just pass this one as "soft-focus" effect? I read somewhere that Images doesn't always have to be tack sharp.
D7000 Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8 VRII ISO 100 135mm 1/60
Very nice stuff as usual... Mine is entitled, "Uncertainty"
D4, 24mm f/1.4 Nikkor at f/6.3, 1/160 sec, ISO 5000
Gobble Gobble
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate here in the US....
Seriously, no parking.
I've only seen a few eagles around here. This will be my first winter "in the woods" so I am hoping we get a lot here.
D800 - AF-S 85mm f/1.8G - f/2 - ISO 50 - 1/800sec
D800/50/1.8g @ 2.8 (1/40).
Happy Thanksgiving PAD!!
Here's some more cosplay.
D600 | AF-S 80-200mm f/2.8 @ 80mm | f/11 | 1/160 | ISO 5600 | SB-700 ceiling bounce | LR 4.3 RC
@rschnaible: almost 3D, wonderful play with shades and color contrast.
@coastalconn: I see that you can cope well with the competition that has appeared here, whether it's birds or bambis. (If I could hand-hold like you, I'd go for something longer than 300mm, too)
Sunset scene
D700, 70-300VR @ 195mm, f/11.
D800 + N70-200/2.8vrII
The wonderful images continue on PAD......
Yesterday in the USA was Thanksgiving Day. A time to focus our gratitude for the gifts from our Creator (if one is so inclined). So, here is one who appears, as one of our members suggested, "Happy Camper." I suspect this is a child's version of gratitude....
D4, 16-35mm f/4.0 VR Nikkor at 35mm. 1/125 sec, f/4.0, ISO 1100
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