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Images => People, Portraits, Street, PJ & Cityscapes => Topic started by: Airy on July 29, 2015, 00:46:52

Title: Champ de Mars
Post by: Airy on July 29, 2015, 00:46:52

Df + 50/1.4 SC (non-AI, simpler optical formula). Wide open ; I like the drawing style. Focus was on upper left flowers. CA removed, but the LoCA remains. Lightroom has trouble removing it.

Title: Re: Champ de Mars
Post by: Airy on July 29, 2015, 00:53:51

... close to the Eiffel Tower, shot same day with the same lens :

Title: Re: Champ de Mars
Post by: Airy on July 29, 2015, 01:04:55

Full series here : https://www.behance.net/gallery/28282405/A-few-steps-across-Champ-de-Mars? (https://www.behance.net/gallery/28282405/A-few-steps-across-Champ-de-Mars?)

Title: Re: Champ de Mars
Post by: Bjørn J on July 29, 2015, 01:07:46

The first is beautiful, the way the lens draws is fabulous. Now, if you have moved slightly right you could have avoided the tree cutting the bench.

Title: Re: Champ de Mars
Post by: Airy on July 29, 2015, 01:24:36

indeed.

Title: Re: Champ de Mars
Post by: Akira on July 29, 2015, 02:03:18

I like the way you included the figures in #1.  I like the kaleidoscope-like composition of #2.  The muted color rendition of the lens gives a pleasing effect when shooting flowers.

Title: Re: Champ de Mars
Post by: Airy on July 29, 2015, 06:04:20

I did not play any trick with colors in #1. The desaturated look is "normal" with this lens, when wide open.

Title: Re: Champ de Mars
Post by: Gary on July 31, 2015, 16:02:49

Well done and great examples illustrating the lens and your skills.

Title: Re: Champ de Mars
Post by: Airy on July 31, 2015, 16:29:16

Thanks Gary. Exploiting these old lenses' imperfections is actually a nice occupation (a bit expensive too - but no, I'm not gonna buy a Noct). I am starting to understand what other Members here call a "boring" lens. For instance the very good Voigtländer 40/2 could easily become one of these; it requires many more efforts to get an "aha" shot with it. On the other hand, the 50/1.4 SC has more use cases than a Lomograph, as the opposing shots above demonstrate. I still wonder why Lightroom refused to correct the LoCA (the one aberration I never found usable, it simply puts me off). BW conversion should not become the only answer.