2016 000

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

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

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!




Edited by 4paul - 07 January 2016 at 04:23

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.

great idea and some amazing shots!
I know of many kinds of 3D glasses, but can't wrap my brain around this one?

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

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

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