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    Posted: 03 January 2016 at 05:31
New Year, new photo outings ...

Day 1 I was late getting out, so no birds and not much sun

2016 001

I have previously attempted this shot, I think the geometry works here
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Rokkor 200 and cheap Zhyongyi turbo adapter and DxO ClearView slider colorized this nicely!
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Another previously attempted shot that this may be the best version; this time I used layers to boost the shadows
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All MC 200/3.5 + cheap turbo + nex7


The challenge was how to photograph a black car at dusk.
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E 16/2.8 nex5n

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2016 002
At the weekly market I wanted the four pink colors, but was annoyed with people walking past, and with the sign in the way. A big crop and the tilt adapter is pretty close to what I was going for.

nex5n MD 50/1.7 @ 1.7
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Post Options Post Options   Quote MichelvA Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 January 2016 at 08:44
A nice start of the new year Paul. Love the shallow dof's, especially in #2016 001 -3 and in # 2016 002. While the Jaguar XJ is exposed well in 6, i think it would look much better if more isolated. TFS
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Thanks MichelvA! I try to "let the lens do the work" - shallow DOF is the lens's job!

2016 003
Beyond 1:1 exercise - C/Y 60/2.8 makro + extension tubes (I think 65mm?) - the stack height of a surface mount jumper row is something like 9mm, it almost fills the wide side of the 25.6mm sensor, so maybe 2.5:1 macro?

f16 + 5600flash on cam with reflector
Using a turbo adapter makes MFD of the lens inside the barrel! so the turbo on a 1:1 macro isn't all that useful.

rainy dusk shot

iso 2500 nex5n MD 50/1.7 f5.6?
another layers to boost shadows and desaturate
Those are Christmas/Holiday lights still in the trees.
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2016 004
Found it!
SLR Magic 35/1.7 was in a box maybe for 2 years
The first generation of the lo-fi movement
Just the kind of thing to experiment with in the Day Prime Challenge!

1 Typical


2 unreal colors


Beyond 1:1 (I think)
Industar 69 28/2.8 + 3 extension tubes
too many tubes, the short registration distance made this shot iso2500 at f2.8 1/60, not good for handheld
3 this fella was in my salad greens!




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2016 005

Oops - missed a day.
They are always more pictures to take!
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2016 006

Part of the exercise is to do more processing, since I almost always only do some global sliders and call it good.

Today's exercise was similar to the what-do-you-call-it method (there was a Contest last year) of stacking successively more out-of-focus shots in layers; here I used longer exposures with ND over a standard shot. 6 long exposures, I needed more movement so I wiggled the lens.

MC 200/3.5 f5.6 base, f22 long exposures nex7 ND4

Blowing Boug



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Boug Blowing


For the first I didn't adjust the shots so the camera movement between wiggling the lens was hundreds of pixels. For the second I aligned them, rotated the fence, and did the flip trick. Lemme know which you like better/worse/both/neither.
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2016 007

3D Glasses - the ones I used to watch the Star Wars (7) movie last night

MC 85/1.7 nex7 CPL

I actually liked the movie. Didn't think I'd like it but they did as well as you could be expected to do.

On a camera-related level, someone sat on the director and prevented him from putting obnoxious flare into every shot (starts at 2:50 if you're skipping ahead).    

3D was okay, certainly didn't add much except for the few "in your face" 3D shots. I think they front-loaded the 3D; by the third reel there wasn't much 3D at all.
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great idea and some amazing shots!
I know of many kinds of 3D glasses, but can't wrap my brain around this one?
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Thanks angora - I put a polarizer on the camera lens - 3D glasses are polarized with each eye opposite, one lens horizontal and one vertical. I cancelled out the one on the right with the polarizer on the camera. The movie theater projectors have polarizers on the lenses.

2016 008

Car Park at Night aka Ghost

Samyang E 8 fish nex5n
for Day Prime Challenge
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2016 009

Fisheye macro

In a previous Day Prime I had tried to use extension tubes to make a 'macro' out of the 8mm fisheye, but even the shortest extension tube didn't focus, I'm assuming it moved the focal plane inside the front element.

Today I freelensed, I removed the lens then jammed it back up against the lens mount, so it was only a few mm, which puts the focal plane up to the lens hood.

Certainly not 1:1, but surprisingly close for an 8mm lens! Samyang E 8/2.8 @f8 (I think)

1 Well-heeled digital photographer

hood pressed against the screen; notice the focal plane is not at all planar (unsurprisingly)

2 fisheye macro environmental portrait


3 diguise the fish

gotta watch the hood when freelensing! I haven't previously encountered blue Chromatic Aberration - the CA sliders in DxO are maxed with the 'purple fringing' box checked and it barely reduced it - anybody know what optical or digital sensor bug this is?

I had the Amount Samyang 8/3.5 fish and sold it when I got the Emount Samyang 8/2.8 fish. Objectively the Amount has 'better' image quality, but the Emount is only a little bigger than a body cap, and the nex3 is only a little bigger than a lens rear cap, so it's a backup body that's ready for fun! It fits in the empty space of a full camera bag and weighs almost nothing. It's on my list of 'favorite' kit, and if I can figure out 'fisheye macro environmental portrait' ....

>cross-posted with Day Prime Training/Outtakes
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Originally posted by 4paul 4paul wrote:

Thanks angora - I put a polarizer on the camera lens - 3D glasses are polarized with each eye opposite, one lens horizontal and one vertical. I cancelled out the one on the right with the polarizer on the camera. The movie theater projectors have polarizers on the lenses.


TY!! appreciate... I fell in love with 3D photography 10 years ago. after being involved for a long time with 3D cg. (and worked for a company in Buffalo, NY).
still don't get the pola filter + lens, forgive me??
IMHO all 3D captures start with stereo i.e. the distance between your eyes, approx. 6.5 cm, which enables you to see depth??

wide-angle macro? kewl!!
(in love with the Venus 15mm lens)

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freelensing Rokinon/Samyang 12/2
This one won't focus if it's off the mount very far, so I tilted the lens to try to get anything in focus; the petals are almost touching the lens hood

Sunny Boug across the lake

f16
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2016 011

cheap Zhyongyi lens turbo with MD 35/2.8

1 I see aliens


2 ears


3 ladybug

freelensed, a little off the mount for a little more magnification; the turbo concentrates light so there isn't as much light loss from moving the lens away from the sensor - higher shutter speed obviously good for handheld
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