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Images => People, Portraits, Street, PJ & Cityscapes => Topic started by: Jacques Pochoy on June 16, 2015, 18:52:35

Title: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on June 16, 2015, 18:52:35: (https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3917/14221800440_c164c8f900_c.jpg)
La grande marche vers l'extinction... (https://flic.kr/p/nEJrMS) by ArchiVue (https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivue/), sur Flickr - 28mm f/2.8 AIs and Df

The Great march toward extinction as it could also be titled. I'm not usually a wide angle user, more around 85mm and 105 or even 135, but this 28mm is really extraordinary, able to focus as near as 20cm ! So I've forced myself to keep it on the camera for some time to get used to it and discover it's possibilities.
I started by our very Parisian Museum that was in the fog of my memories from young times !
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on June 16, 2015, 19:04:06: (https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2915/14219856948_1cb59d5d0a_c.jpg)
Un peu de paléontologie... (https://flic.kr/p/nEyu4o) by ArchiVue (https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivue/), sur Flickr 28mm f/2.8 AIs and Df

Of course the fact that all those skeletons are stored in a wonderful 19th century building near the Seine river, gives an eerie and somewhat dusty impression, a bit like if you were a visitor from a Victorian era.
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on June 16, 2015, 19:08:17: (https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3886/14422490015_5df92dfeeb_c.jpg)
L'ancêtre de Jars Jars Binks...? (https://flic.kr/p/nYt2NX) by ArchiVue (https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivue/), sur Flickr- 28mm f/2.8 AIs and Df

Some of those fossils seems to have inspired some Star Wars characters as Jars Jars Binks... :-)
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on June 16, 2015, 19:12:18: (https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3892/14416447972_cb9ddb23b6_c.jpg)
Smilodon... (https://flic.kr/p/nXW4HN) by ArchiVue (https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivue/), sur Flickr - 28mm f.2?8 AIs and Df

Or some other saber toothed tigers would remind of some cartoonish character... :-)
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on June 16, 2015, 19:16:04: (https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8644/15326378674_62b11722f0_c.jpg)
Détail de ferronnerie... (https://flic.kr/p/pmkGqb) by ArchiVue (https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivue/), sur Flickr - 28mm f/2.8 AIs and Df

But one could be distraught by the sheer quality of the detailing of these old buildings, giving an overall view, with railings of another time... :-)
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on June 16, 2015, 19:18:37: (https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3876/14405034451_0fc44d7445_c.jpg)
Vitrines et classeurs... (https://flic.kr/p/nWVySX) by ArchiVue (https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivue/), sur Flickr - 28mm f/2.8 AIs and Df

As after all these were more for study then for display... :-)
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Erik Lund on June 16, 2015, 19:31:58: Super, that little gem really does well!!
What camera captured these crisp images?
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on June 16, 2015, 19:39:24: Apparently, the Df.

Great b/w conversions, by the way. Must be an interesting museum to visit for sure.
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on June 16, 2015, 19:40:01: As stated under each pictures, a Df, the ubiquitous small camera that can see in the dark and reminds me of my FM2n's (I have three of those, each with a different shutter) :-) ! Since my D3x is only used for some paid work and when 24MP is really needed (not often)!

From time to time each of us meet the "almost" perfect camera for his own use and practice, it happens several times in life and now is my Df moment... :-)

Gee... Thanks a lot Bjørn... :-)
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Erik Lund on June 16, 2015, 19:44:55: Sorry I was completely focused on the images ::)

Hmmm :) I'm also a D3X user for work, I have been looking more and more on a DF for artistic and low light work...

Again very nice.
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on June 16, 2015, 19:51:19: Thank you very much... :-)
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on June 16, 2015, 19:53:44: (https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5613/15214681363_9336b665c8_c.jpg)
"Gaffe" au parquet... (https://flic.kr/p/pbtdGt) by ArchiVue (https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivue/), sur Flickr - 28mm f/2.8 AIs and Df

Of course, those big nails can scratch the floor... :-)
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Frank Fremerey on June 16, 2015, 20:20:57: Any big city has these Museums of natural history. I always enjoy them myself and they are a great venue for children too. Love the pictures, although I am positive that they would also be attractive in color
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Airy on June 16, 2015, 21:25:39: Great series and very good post-processing indeed... I would like to see them printed.
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Fons Baerken on June 16, 2015, 21:29:17: Jacques, great work and i remember them from flickr.
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on June 17, 2015, 00:55:37: Thanks to all for your kind comments... :-)
Fons, it's a way to introduce myself on this site, there will be more pictures in time, with new or older lenses :-)
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: pat mezzulo on June 17, 2015, 04:57:14: Jacques, thank you for posting this series. I called my wife over to look at your pictures. We visited the museum in 1990! We walked from Cathedral Notre Dame to the museum on a hot, humid day in August...... As I am a geologist, I just had to see the collection.
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: pluton on June 17, 2015, 05:07:21: Thanks for showing that great room to me via your well-done black and white shots.
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: tommiejeep on June 17, 2015, 05:15:18: Jacques, these are very good and I really am impressed with the B&W conversions. Just yesterday I was thinking I should give my strange silver 28 f2 Ais a real go. I also have been using the 105's and 135's more often.

Many thanks for posting. I am sort of in the doldrums photography-wise and just the breeze I needed :)
Cheers,
Tom
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on June 17, 2015, 19:41:17: (https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8561/15326377204_7cf6295cbd_c.jpg)
Le Glyptodon sous verre... (https://flic.kr/p/pmkFYQ) by ArchiVue (https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivue/), sur Flickr - 28mm f/2.8 AIs and Df

Of course those familiar with the Ice Age movies would recognize the Glyptodon family... :-)

But after all those bones, getting outdoor to further test that little lens was necessary...

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2933/14414799141_a34970dda5_c.jpg)
Cache-cache... (https://flic.kr/p/nXMBzF) by ArchiVue (https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivue/), sur Flickr - 28mm f/2.8 AIs and DF

Of course getting out the building and back into the small streets of Paris could seem just as easy as this couple act... :-)
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on June 17, 2015, 19:45:40: (https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7639/16914465835_64749866b9_c.jpg)
Dans l'axe... (https://flic.kr/p/rLF4pi) by ArchiVue (https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivue/), sur Flickr - 28mm f/2.8 AIs and Df

As Pat said, Notre Dame isn't so far from the Museum, but his one is an "inside" shot, not really following the Seine river...
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on June 17, 2015, 19:48:37: (https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3930/14912484744_4849a5042e_c.jpg)
Nuageux... (https://flic.kr/p/oHLoaW) by ArchiVue (https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivue/), sur Flickr - 28mm f/2.8 AIs and DF

And back to home base, the usual café I dwell in mostly... :-)
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: armando_m on June 17, 2015, 21:23:11: Fantastic series, both the museum and the walk on the street !
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on June 17, 2015, 21:44:19: Thanks a lot... :-) And thanks to Tom, Pat and Pluton ! I'm happy if these series helped a bit Tom's mood, as we all go through period of indecisions in our photography, sort of boredom, but often corrected with a new lens, another attitude to our surroundings or more simply shifting from color to B&W (or vice versa) :-)

I think this introducing series has given me an idea, sort of "hommage" to Bjørn and to thank him for this revival, instead of titling recent work, I'd like to "fiddle" with lenses (MF ones) and with each, try to say a photographic voyage in space and time ?
Maybe I'll discover that whatever the focal length, most of my pictures will have the same scale of perception or that they convey the same meaning or feeling ? Who knows? I've never done that before, It can be interesting (at least for me) that instead of living with a Df, It could be with a given MF lens ?

Let's first complete the 28mm "game"... :-)
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on June 17, 2015, 21:54:30: (https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3912/14238645878_e783f9c2fd_c.jpg)
Recyclage... (https://flic.kr/p/nGdMms) by ArchiVue (https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivue/), sur Flickr - 28mm f/2.8 AIs and Df.

Of course the "authentic" car speeding in Paris would be the old 2CV Citroën, now converted as a touristic mean of transportation ! Who said Manual focusing was slow ?

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3924/14422491765_0daa68870a_c.jpg)
C'est l'heure... (https://flic.kr/p/nYt3k8) by ArchiVue (https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivue/), sur Flickr - 28mm f/2.8 Ais and Df.

Now I know why the 2CV was in a hurry, it's getting late at the clock at the street's corner ! Brick social housing and the public clock so that the worker wouldn't be late to work... :-)
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Lance B on June 18, 2015, 09:11:00: Excellent work! Love the B&W treatment.
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: bobfriedman on June 18, 2015, 15:35:57: Interesting compositions with Stunning sharpness.
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on June 19, 2015, 09:20:26: Thank you for your kind comments... :-) Working all day in a big city like Paris, I have to find motives to take pictures of very mundane everyday scenes that happen to be on my path while walking from A to B. It's also another way to "see" the city I live in !
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on June 19, 2015, 11:26:05: (https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5514/14439800627_22be114850_c.jpg)
Les champs de Raspail... (https://flic.kr/p/nZZKDM) by ArchiVue (https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivue/), sur Flickr - 28mm f/2.8 AIs and Df.

Since a new scheme from the City Hall in suppressing weedkillers in cleaning water, natures comes back in force everywhere some earth is still visible. It makes some interesting textures in spring and summer... :-)

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3919/14626199095_2ebbfa80e4_c.jpg)
Jardin en bacs... (https://flic.kr/p/oht6qt) by ArchiVue (https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivue/), sur Flickr - 28mm f/2.8 AIs and DF.

But when the smaller streets are fully paved, the neighbors unite for some transportable gardens... :-)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2898/14393303941_d77b9359f8_c.jpg)
La photo partagée... (https://flic.kr/p/nVTrNM) by ArchiVue (https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivue/), sur Flickr - 28mm f/2.8 Ais and Df.

All these scenes, events, pictures, make for some good talk with friends at the nearby café's terrace, where each boasts about his "best" pictures or the size of his camera... :-)
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: simato73 on June 20, 2015, 12:51:48: You have some very nice, crisp black and white conversions.
I have enjoyed watching them all, both the series in the museum and the street shots.
Among the second kind the last posted stands out, but I also like the portrait street shot with the clouds.
As for the dinosaurs, they are all great and best shown in B&W as you did.
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on June 21, 2015, 10:09:47: Thank you... :-) I like also a lot the last one, as I didn't expect the 28mm to give me such details in a "people" scene from the other side of the table ! For the B&W conversion I use the OnOne software as a plug in Lightroom.
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on June 21, 2015, 10:23:01: The 28/2.8 AIS with its very near focusing limit of 0.2 m is a highly versatile tool. Very amply demonstrated in this thread.

I'm having an on/off affair with my own sample of this lens. It was among the first lenses that I CPU-modified, many years ago, and I used it extensively for a time. Currently its status is "off", must see what I can do to change that !

A point of warning to owners or prospective buyers of the 28/2.8: being a CRC (close-focusing correction) design in which the CRC action takes place in the front of the optical assembly, it is vulnerable to knocks and bumps to the front or side. I have encountered more than one sample out of alignment over the years and in fact, my own sample kept initally because its serial number was the same as my banking account (!), had to be realigned at the national Nikon repair facility.
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on July 03, 2015, 14:59:23: Thanks for the warning Bjørn, I'll make sure this neat little lens don't get banged around in my satchel !!!
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on July 03, 2015, 15:08:42: Of course, B&W isn't the only way to play with such a lens (though I usually prefer that mode), Paris can also be perceived in colors... :-)

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7288/16742671732_4bae407e18_c.jpg)
Classique... (https://flic.kr/p/rvuz11) by ArchiVue (https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivue/), sur Flickr - 28mm f/2.8 AIs and Df

And to end this peculiar series on the 28mm/2.8 a picture shot in Istanbul, the city of cats and fishermen that could be named "Tentation"... :-)

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7572/15048963694_73afd5f1e2_c.jpg)
La tentation... (https://flic.kr/p/oVPSBh) by ArchiVue (https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivue/), sur Flickr - 28mm f/2.8 Ais and Df.
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jakov Minić on July 03, 2015, 15:17:59: Jacques, this is a really nice series of BW photos. I enjoyed it a lot.
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on July 03, 2015, 15:23:33: Thank you Jakov for your kind comment ! I had troubles with Paypal and didn't dare post till those weren't resolved. Now I'm a happy NG supporter with even a picture of myself in a train in Mongolia... :-)
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jakov Minić on July 03, 2015, 15:43:44: welcome, thanks, and show us some images from Mongolia :)
Title: Re: Playing with the 28mm f/2.8 AIs
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on July 04, 2015, 19:57:33: Quote from: Jakov Minic on July 03, 2015, 15:43:44
welcome, thanks, and show us some images from Mongolia :)

Good idea :-)