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From an autumn walk with my favourite lens
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 7:18 pm    Post subject: From an autumn walk with my favourite lens Reply with quote
A few shots from to-day, Radionar on 5D, playing with light and bokeh, makes more sense to me now than the banal post-card shots at http://galactinus.net/vilva/porvoo/views.html.











Veijo


PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Welcome back to posting pictures here, Veijo!
I remember your Radionar to be less soft than this - or is my memory at fault? I remember it with a smooth bokeh and all, but with more detail in the in-focus areas.
Anyway I like it a lot better than modern soft focus lenses or filters, because the images feel coherent with the lens, they don't look like tricks or post-pro.

P.S. I like your postcard images Embarassed


PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
fantastic work ! #2 is great ...

Cheers
Tobias


PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
WOW !

I like the 2 last ones very, very much ! Shocked


PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 6:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
fabulous!
as beautiful as you 'postcard' photos are, these are special.

really love the colors and the sense of depth on the first one, most of the lower part makes the impression as if under water!
no 2 and 4 rival for 2nd spot Wink

thank you very much for sharing these,

best regards,
Andreas

edit: may I ask which Radionar, which lens exactly this is?


PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 7:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
great apo lens & highlights mastering!


PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 1:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Welcome back Veijo!
Soft I'd say but it has that dreamy glow that make them pop.


PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 2:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Orio wrote:
Welcome back to posting pictures here, Veijo!


Thanks, I haven't been doing much photography practically all of this year, mostly only thinking about it. There have been other, unavoidable things to be done, and I've also wanted to get away from my lens testing phase to something more creative, to doing my own thing in photography.

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I remember your Radionar to be less soft than this - or is my memory at fault? I remember it with a smooth bokeh and all, but with more detail in the in-focus areas.


Your memory is OK, but this time I've really pushed the Radionar towards soft focus and Gaussian bokeh. I removed the screw which stopped the front cell focusing below 1 meter and turned the lens almost another round.

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Anyway I like it a lot better than modern soft focus lenses or filters, because the images feel coherent with the lens, they don't look like tricks or post-pro.


Most soft focus lenses aren't quite this soft, filters produce a quite different effect, and with PP it would be well nigh impossible to reproduce this kind of depth dependent softness. A harsher bokeh would be destructive in photos with delicate in-focus detail, e.g., single reeds or twigs. The coherent softness of this kind of photos makes them feel restful, tranquil and sometimes even soothing, at least in my mind.

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P.S. I like your postcard images Embarassed


Well, I guess they are OK as postcards go, but there is nothing very personal about them, there are millions and millions like them on the net - only most people don't post their shot at full-res.

Veijo


PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 2:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
tobbsman wrote:
fantastic work ! #2 is great ...


Thanks, it took some effort to find a suitable shooting position for the shot I had in mind.

Veijo


PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 2:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Olivier wrote:
WOW !


Thanks.

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I like the 2 last ones very, very much ! Shocked


In a way the last but one is my favourite, especially the lower left corner, which I quite couldn't anticipate. However, sometimes when looking at it I wonder whether it is too much of a good thing, just fairy tale like kitsch, an air-brushed negation of all ugliness.

Veijo


PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 2:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
kuuan wrote:
fabulous!
as beautiful as you 'postcard' photos are, these are special.

really love the colors and the sense of depth on the first one, most of the lower part makes the impression as if under water!


Thanks. The watery impression is created by the SA softness which becomes noticeable immediately behind the not so sharp focus point.

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edit: may I ask which Radionar, which lens exactly this is?


It is the 105/4.5 Radionar which was one of my very first acquisitions - an accidental acquisition as I bought the rather battered 6x9 folder camera in order to convert the body into a pinhole camera, which process isn't quite finished yet. The lens is quite sharp, but I've adjusted it to produce an almost ideal Gaussian bokeh.

Veijo


PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 3:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Himself wrote:
Welcome back Veijo!


Thanks.

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Soft I'd say but it has that dreamy glow that make them pop.


The softness is intentional, and the pop if any is the only kind I like. In my sharp photos I don't try to produce "pop", I prefer them to be flat if the depicted reality was flat. These impressionistic photos are another matter, however, they do not try to reproduce reality, in a way they let the viewer fill in blanks with whatever.

Veijo


PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Keep them coming please.
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