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Congrats Lars for perfectly mastering of light. Like 1 small


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Wat Ket Karam, Chiang Mai, Thailand with Kenlock.McTor Wide 24/2.8


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VOIGTLÄNDER Nokton ASPHERICAL 1.2/35

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Olivier wrote:
Wow.
Wolfgang, a great place very well exposed by your photograph !
Glass, steel and cement harmonize very well and I find your composition is very strong.

WIch equipment did you use ? Medium format ?

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Assisi cathedral , taken with Vivitar 17mm /3,5 aperture probably f8 . The camera was Nex3


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CZJ Sonnar 135mm f/3.5, at around f/8-11ish









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From this spring. The Chinese Gate in Portland, Oregon. Nikkor 28-50mm f3.5 AIS, Nikon FM2n, Kodacolor 400 film.



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The eye of the photographer !
Nice shot.

It seems you've developed some films these days. Wink


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We took a hike out to the Dungeness Spit lighthouse in Washington state -- nearly 11 miles round trip, so you have to watch the tides. We started out about a half-hour past high tide, and big surf was pushing waves up over the dunes, so it was exciting -- you can't hike on the inland side of the spit because it's a bird sanctuary, so that leaves you trying to climb up onto logs to escape the waves! Nikkor 20mm f4 K, Nikon D5500. F11, 1/1000th sec., ISO 400.



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What a beautiful and very clean place.

I'm wondering why so much buildings around the lighthouse.
Are there inhabitants ?

Often, in France, we have automated lighthouses, alone, and no more guardians.

Have a nice day.
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Olivier; This light is decommissioned. But a group of volunteers works around the year to keep it up. People pay to stay in the keeper's house for a week, but they also have chores to keep everything looking good.


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"Drawing contours, shapes, and lines
From the nebula, it shines,
Strange as fiction."
-- Stephen Edgar, "The Building of Light"

Architecture on the University of Washington campus. Vivitar 20mm f3.8 T4 lens in Nikon F non-Ai mount. Nikon D5500. F11, 1/1250th sec., ISO 200. Conversion in Nik Silver Efex Pro 2.



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Bronica SQ-A, 80PS, Acros 100


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Gosh, it's been almost a year since this thread was active! I was out with my Nikkor 85mm f1.8 K and my equally old Nikon F2 with Fuji Superia last week in an almost deserted downtown Seattle, and this is a result.



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gaeger wrote:
Gosh, it's been almost a year since this thread was active! I was out with my Nikkor 85mm f1.8 K and my equally old Nikon F2 with Fuji Superia last week in an almost deserted downtown Seattle, and this is a result.


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"Upon the wreckage of thy yesterday
Design the structure of to-morrow. Lay
Strong corner stones of purpose, and prepare
Great blocks of wisdom, cut from past despair."
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "The Structure"

Grain terminal, Seattle. Nikkor 25-50mm f/4 AIS, Nikon D610.



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Nordentro wrote:


Lovely space, well captured.


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Eskmeals Viaduct, stitched from many HDR frames.



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Excellent shot.


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Fulda Cathedral, Germany. Typical low contrast / high overcast weather, and around noon, so pretty boring light for color images. Black and white however results in a quite good image. The rendering is typical for the Sony A900 set to a high DRO level (very well balanced foreground vs sky):




Another one from the Dom of Arlesheim / Switzerland. Again Sony A900 with DRO. Handheld.


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Ligt Snowfall over the Garden of the Royal Danish Library - a few days before Christmas, Winter, 2023.

Pentax K5 & Pentax 35mm 2.8 macro limited.

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That is pretty good for a 35.
Sounds like an interesting lens!

-D.S.


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Doc Sharptail wrote:
That is pretty good for a 35.
Sounds like an interesting lens!

-D.S.


It did do a decent job, I think Smile

If you're not familiar with it, it's a 'cousin' to the 77mm 1.8 limited designed by Mr. Jun Hirokawa. The 77mm limited was chosen as the 'The undisputed Greatest Pentax Lens of All Time' on Pentax Forums in 2004, and they get some of the same things completely write.

There are two models 'HD Pentax-DA 35mm F2.8 (red marking)' and 'SMC Pentax-DA 35mm (green marking)' - mine is the older of the. I wish it was full-frame compatible; newer macro lenses are either 50mm or 100mm.

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