Aug 282016
 
Sunset from the water

Sunset from the water
Click on the pics to see in proper size.

How to make such a picture ? Go into the water before sunset and try to capture the line where the sun reflect on the water from a low perspective of several inches / centimeters. You can make it easier from a shallow lake than a deep one, especially if the water is cold.

You can play with many things like you hold the camera in normal or portrait position, you can choose what you want in your composition, the angle between the camera and the lens, the focusing distance, the depth of field, if you use longer focal lengths you can blur the background more.

You can also play with exposure, to make the pics darker or lighter. My Nikon camera calculate the light as the image is darker, but with exposure compensation it is easy to make it lighter, this way the people in the background will be more visible.

You can decide as well you want a full sun, half sun or exclude the sun from the frame.

You can also play the angle how to hold the camera, downwards, upwards or in between.

Here in this shot I used wide angle and small aperture for more depth of field and try to focus relatively closely.
After you can crop the pics anywhere you want.

 Posted by at 4:58 pm
Aug 242016
 
Black and white experiments

In some cases when we are amid lot of different colors (for example in a kids playing room) we want to get rid of them. Some cases the too many colors can be disturbing, and can attract our attention away from the main theme. We switch to black and white and we have a much simpler image. We can create black and white photographs multiple ways, either desaturate the colored photographs or simply use BW picture style if we have it in our camera settings. Lately I chosed the BW camera setting on my Nikon d7000 as the ones I desaturated from colored ones doesn’t look like I would like them to look like. At first BW photograps can look awkward, but if we know what we want, we can get very happy with these photographs. Some cases a colored photo looks much better, depend on our preference.

Black and white experiments
You can click on the pictures to see them in higher resolution, which I prefer over small web size. I like the above photo, not because it is a brilliant view, but looks like the time has stopped for a moment, like a memory. Perhaps the background music can help as well, which I hear. The photo was made next to River Tisza in Hungary, which is the second biggest river in Hungary, where you can find this kind of place. Not many places like that without lighting, pavement and artificial surroundings. This beach is totally natural at this state, nothing just nature, huge trees, not even a stairs, you can reach the shore from steps which is made by dug the natural soil. Not many places like this in the World today, apart from the abandoned areas.

Black and white experiments 2
The black and white photographs are much simpler and the shapes and forms, and light level differences are more obvious. Interestingly Ansel Adams used BW for their landscapes, although he could also would have used colored photographs as well.

Retro look / feel

In many cases black and white photographs can look retro as it can resemble the film photographs. What do you think about the photograph below ? When it was taken ? (2016 august)
Black and white experiments 3

Portraits

The easy win situation in Black and white is portraits. Either a wedding portrait or other, we can create very nice photographs without strong efforts.

Some points for experimentation

– Strong lights
– Shadows (for example a tunnel)
– Reflection
– Portraits
– Out of focus shots
– Retro objects combined with oof
– Clouds
– Blacks
– Whites
Black and white experiments 4

 Posted by at 10:06 am
Aug 212016
 
Kerlee 35mm f1.2

kerlee 35mm f1.2

About Dzoptics

Perhaps few people heard about DZopics yet. The Shenzhen Donzheng co is in the optical industry for more than 10 years. They involved in multiple fields of optics like medical, military, lighting, security, laser and many more.

They prouduce scan lenses, large format lenses, CCTV lenses, tele centric lenses, focusing rings and adapters as well.

Seems the unique, bright 35mm is their first photographic lens though.

The lens has a stepless aperture, which can be regulated by a switch.

Kerlee 35mm f1.2 specs
Description KERLEE 35/1.2
Type wide angle lens
Focusing Manual focus
Aperture: Manual iris with" CLICK" swichable aperture lock
Focal Length 35mm
Aperture (Max.) f1.2
Aperture (Min.) F22
FOV(Diagonal) 63.2°
Construction 11elements/10 groups
Close focus distance 0.3m
Max magnification 0.12 x
Filter diameter: 72mm
Lens Mounts Nikon F, Canon EF , Sony E ,pentax K
Lens image stabilize No
Color Black
Weight About 690g
 Posted by at 9:48 pm