Inside My Magnolia

[Mongo]

Taken in Mongo’s garden late afternoon using a Pentax medium format 120mm f4 macro lens on D4s. Done quickly and without care - handheld, at about f11.5, 1/125th, ISO 400, +0.3EV just to see how the lens would perform (but that will be the subject of another dedicated post when all information is collated).

Mongo was not unhappy with it and will be doing more test shots. Because of a current post, Mongo will declare he shoots RAW and sharpness was set to +2 (and is usually set 0 and +3 at most)

The second shot is the SOOC original RAW image converted to Tiff then reduced in size and converted to Jpeg for posting.

[Fons Baerken]

Great colour, i actually like the 'flat' response of the D4 here.

[Frank Fremerey]

the tonal response is very good, the detail rendering lacks in 100%. The softness fits the topic though.

[Mongo]

thanks Fons and Frank. Both of you noted two two deliberate characteristics of the image. First, the relative flatness of the image and secondly, the softer appearance. Both these qualities suite the subject matter  i.e the magnolia. Unless one were manufacturing "steel magnolias" in bright sun.

Mongo imagines this lens/camera combination should be quite ideal for portrait work also. Now, Mongo needs to corner a human to try it out.