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Re: [Theme] Your best unsharp photo
« Reply #480 on: October 21, 2016, 08:51:18 »
Oncidium.  D750 and an AF-D 50/1.4 derivative enigmatic lens with no aperture or focusing mechanism.
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Re: [Theme] Your best unsharp photo
« Reply #481 on: October 21, 2016, 09:43:22 »
Pure art ;)

I like the bleeding of the reds very much,,,
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Re: [Theme] Your best unsharp photo
« Reply #482 on: October 21, 2016, 09:43:51 »
From now on I am only going to shoot with derivative enigmatic lenses with no aperture or focusing mechanisms ;)
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Re: [Theme] Your best unsharp photo
« Reply #483 on: October 21, 2016, 11:02:34 »
Akira, beautiful!
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Re: [Theme] Your best unsharp photo
« Reply #484 on: October 21, 2016, 11:47:43 »
Wow Akira, very successful shot! Not easy is an understatement. Well balance, punchy, enigmatic. Works very well.

  Care a couple or words about your lens? I´m interested too, like Jakov. Or more... :)

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Re: [Theme] Your best unsharp photo
« Reply #485 on: October 21, 2016, 22:06:23 »
Ursus americanus americanus

Taken in our front yard an hour or so ago. First time I could ever get any pictures at all of our neighborhood bear. It was running fast into the nearby woods on a rainy day.

Both are out of focus, but I'm thrilled!

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Re: [Theme] Your best unsharp photo
« Reply #486 on: October 21, 2016, 22:27:20 »
The motion blur is great in the second shot!
I would love to have a backyard friend like that;)
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Re: [Theme] Your best unsharp photo
« Reply #487 on: October 21, 2016, 22:37:33 »
A nice bear, well suited for an unsharp picture. Does the little fellow have eartags?

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Re: [Theme] Your best unsharp photo
« Reply #488 on: October 22, 2016, 10:55:10 »
Tom, super action images. They wouldn't have worked as good had they been sharp :)
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Re: [Theme] Your best unsharp photo
« Reply #489 on: October 22, 2016, 17:05:05 »
Erik, Jakov, Anthony and Paco, thanks for kind comments.

I thought I had post a thread about the enigmatic lens here, but apparently that was on another site...  I posted another Oncidium image and a couple of images of the enigmatic lens here.

http://nikongear.net/revival/index.php/topic,2413.msg29770.html#msg29770
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Re: [Theme] Your best unsharp photo
« Reply #490 on: October 22, 2016, 17:07:15 »
Ursus americanus americanus

Taken in our front yard an hour or so ago. First time I could ever get any pictures at all of our neighborhood bear. It was running fast into the nearby woods on a rainy day.

Both are out of focus, but I'm thrilled!

Tom, that should be very dangerous.  Your images convey your thrill really well.  Great documentary images.
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Re: [Theme] Your best unsharp photo
« Reply #491 on: October 22, 2016, 17:41:18 »
Ursus americanus americanus

Taken in our front yard an hour or so ago. First time I could ever get any pictures at all of our neighborhood bear. It was running fast into the nearby woods on a rainy day.

Both are out of focus, but I'm thrilled!

I think I am coming to visit...
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Re: [Theme] Your best unsharp photo
« Reply #492 on: October 22, 2016, 23:53:06 »
I thought I had post a thread about the enigmatic lens here, but apparently that was on another site...  I posted another Oncidium image and a couple of images of the enigmatic lens here.

http://nikongear.net/revival/index.php/topic,2413.msg29770.html#msg29770
Thanks for the link, Akira.  I missed that one.  Gorgeous effect by this 'unnamed' lens.

That bear tells somehow a story. Looks earcuffed in the last shot, and has a kind of sock?  ;)

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Re: [Theme] Your best unsharp photo
« Reply #493 on: October 24, 2016, 02:15:54 »
Thanks everyone, glad you enjoyed the pictures. Sorry not to have responded earlier but I only just now figured out how to get back online after the hack (thanks for your help Erik).

It is thrilling to see the bear. This is my third sighting of a bear in our yard in 13 years so they are not animals you just sit around and wait for them to arrive. In this instance, I was sitting downstairs in my house next to a window and out of the corner of my eye, I sensed movement, looked left and the bear was walking past less than ten feet away. I rushed to grab a camera to get a shot and took these from our front porch as it came out of our garage. The average weight of these guys is 300 pounds and seeing him up close impressed me with the solid immensity of his bulk. From tail to nose he seemed at least six feet long as he shambled by.

Erik: they are great neighbors as they are very shy around humans. My only fear was when my thirty pound dog raced out the door and chased him into the woods. I ran after Reggie (my dog) fearing that if he got too close the bear would swat him with his nasty claws. Reg had the good sense to stop when he heard my furious and fearful command for him to "come"!

Borge: The bear has been tagged in both ears perhaps because he's been trapped and marked to track him and more than once at that.

Jakov: I agree with the effectiveness of the unsharp quality of the shots. I didn't plan it that way...

Akira: These bears would only be dangerous if you came upon them with their cubs. Otherwise they want nothing to do with humans.

Elsa: We also have the rare Moose, Fisher Cat and more often, Bobcats. I've never seen the moose I should add but they have passed through the neighborhood. If you came to visit you might see deer, turkey, squirrels and chipmunks but probably none of the more exotic species. You're welcome anyway!

John: The sock is actually an oak leaf he kicked up, it took me a while to figure that one out!

In closing, this is a nice sharp picture of why the bear came to visit. The can is where we leave our birdseed for our feeders:




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Re: [Theme] Your best unsharp photo
« Reply #494 on: October 24, 2016, 17:26:11 »

Elsa: We also have the rare Moose, Fisher Cat and more often, Bobcats. I've never seen the moose I should add but they have passed through the neighborhood. If you came to visit you might see deer, turkey, squirrels and chipmunks but probably none of the more exotic species. You're welcome anyway!


aint that murphy's law...
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