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[pictor]

Absolutely, positively, beautiful! Christian! You don't need any other stinkin' cameras* or lenses! The softness and layers of thee petals, the interior... I feel as though I'm right there, drinking in this flower's beauty and perfume.

Many thanks for your appreciation and the reference to the film! You are right that I should be happy with what I already have and I am happy with it. Yet I am still looking forward to get the Leica 60mm macro this week. I hope it is fine because I want to use the 60mm for photographing flowers and the 100mm for photographing insects. Both lenses together cost about the same as the Nikon 60mm macro I returned and I gain two different lenses for two different applications.

It is funny that I needed the Nikon D5100 and the bad copies of lenses to find the joy with my Olympus gear again. I would have switched systems, if the Nikon lenses had been better. The moment I got so enthusiastic with the gear I already own was when I saw the shots I took with my Leica Summicron 50mm and the E-PL1 in the botanical garden. I was not prepared for the image quality I get from this combination.

 

[Luckypenguin]

Olympus Pen E-P1 + OM Zuiko 50mm f1.8

 

[pdh]

Nic are you going to start a mu-43-stylee "Urban Images" thread over here by any chance? (plus a tutorial about how you produce the fantastic punch in the images you've been posting in it ... and in the one above of course )

 

[Briar]

New Hopetoun Gardens

X100 + SEP2

 

[Luckypenguin]

Nic are you going to start a mu-43-stylee "Urban Images" thread over here by any chance?

Ooh, I don't know. I think at one point over there we had urban scenes, landscapes, cityscapes, designs, juxtapositions, impressions, streetscapes...I think that was all! Street-level urban images was the best definition I could come up with in the end. It occurred to me that it was probably the style of photography that I felt most comfortable with but we never actually had a defined category for it.

(plus a tutorial about how you produce the fantastic punch in the images you've been posting in it ... and in the one above of course )

Thanks for the compliment. Some of the shots on that thread are a bit older and use just Photoshop, but all of the recent ones use Silver Efex and in some cases (including the image above) Color Efex as well. There are some nice filters in Color Efex that work very well when used when used either before or sometimes after running an image through Silver Efex.

 

[olli]

Nic if you want to start an 'Urban images' thread I'll be right there with you.

 

[BBW]

Go for it. I was searching around because I felt sure that you'd already started one, olli - but I couldn't find one. I know you've written about the subject. I'm into it too.

 

[Luckypenguin]

It's done

https://www.photographerslounge.org/f22/urban-image-thread-2362/

Now returning this thread to its regular programming...

 

[pdh]

hang by _loupe, on Flickr
E-p2, 17/2.8, 1/20s, f/5.6, ISO400

 

[pictor]

Olympus E-PL1, 100mm, 1/180, ISO 100

 

[pdh]

playing with by _loupe, on Flickr

 

[PeterB666]

A photo of a Canon taken with a Nikon.

Portrait - Neilson Park 3 by peterb666, on Flickr

Oh, plus Alice.

 

[BBW]

And a lovely young woman with that great orange scarf!

 

[davect01]

end of the world

And the world did not end!!:tongue:

A photo of a Canon taken with a Nikon.

Portrait - Neilson Park 3 by peterb666, on Flickr

Oh, plus Alice.

 

[christilou]

Little One

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[BBW]

I thought I was on the "Roses" thread. Wonderful image.

 

[andrewh973]

From an outing this past weekend; unassuming hives tucked away, off the path.



Trio (Beehives), West Orange, NJ


LX5
1:1 aspect ratio
PP in Photoshop

 

[BBW]

For a minute I thought they were invading wooden robots or extraterrestrials!

They look great in black and white and I think the angle and view you chose worked just right, Andrew. To me there's the tiniest hint of "looming" and maybe something a little bit sinister about these "unassuming hives".

 

[BruPri]

In #2, I see a woman's head, face and arm reaching upwards...quite haunting... can you find it?

 

[BruPri]

Trying to just shoot B&W 6:6 (or 1:1) for a change. Not something I'm used to, so I'm learning.

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In #2, I see a woman's head, face and arm reaching upwards...quite haunting... can you find it?