Delft Duckweed and Delicious

[Erik Lund]

After the Photokina 2016 some of the participants decide to go for a trip to Delft that turned out to be full of Duckweed and Delicious photo opportunities.

_EGL6507 by Erik Gunst Lund, on Flickr

_EGL6509 by Erik Gunst Lund, on Flickr

Bjørn took the D500 in deep to catch the greens,,,

_EGL6555 by Erik Gunst Lund, on Flickr

The 105mm AFS 1.4 is hard not to like, here blue bicycle bell foreground is adequately thrown out of focus - Lovely rendering!

_EGL6552 by Erik Gunst Lund, on Flickr

More Bicycle bells here with 24-70mm AFS E 2.8

_EGL6542 by Erik Gunst Lund, on Flickr

[Jakov Minić]

Photographers in action.
Downtown Delft style.

[Erik Lund]

Great catch - Really nice and crisp Jakov!

Here another shot of the surreal scenery

_EGL6540 by Erik Gunst Lund, on Flickr

[elsa hoffmann]

All really nice photos - I like what you did.

[Jakov Minić]

Yesterday, I have come to the conclusion, that if you want a full circular fish-eye image, you should use a full circular fish-eye.
On might claim that the 10.5 is sharper than the 8mm Sigma but I believe you lose a bit of image quality when merging the two images made by the 10.5. Also, the disadvantage is that you concentrate so hard on making the two without changing the perspective that you don't concentrate on the composition itself.
So no, I will not replace the 8mm Sigma with the 10.5DX.
You can make a circular image with the 10.5DX but with some drawbacks, including moving subjects in the frame when exposing twice, and last but not least, you need additional time in post processing to achieve something you could have with just one click of the shutter release

[Jakov Minić]

Climbing the wall downtown Delft.

[elsa hoffmann]

Good post Jakov - makes sense to me.
As much as I like the circular Fisheye - I realised I will get more out of a standard fisheye - so I am hunting for a 15mm Sigma at present

[Frank Fremerey]

Delft is a wonderful place. My friend Willem has a house in Molenstraat where we stayed two times. The Photographer is Bjørn obviously

[Jakov Minić]

Elsa, one can never have enough of fish-lenses.
I only have three

Frank, why don't we make a Delft walk through? It's a beautiful little town.

Here is 180/2.8 in IR.
And another 10.5 merge.

[Anirban Halder]

Great catch - Really nice and crisp Jakov!

Here another shot of the surreal scenery

Wonderful shot Erik. Beautiful town indeed.

Bjørn took the D500 in deep to catch the greens,,,

Curious to see what he caught.

[Hugh_3170]

Duckweed by the looks of things.

Once a scientist, always a scientist? 

Wonderful shot Erik. Beautiful town indeed.
Curious to see what he caught.

[John Geerts]

All great shots, gentleman. 

[armando_m]

Wonderful images of what seems a very nice place to visit

Good post Jakov - makes sense to me.
As much as I like the circular Fisheye - I realised I will get more out of a standard fisheye - so I am hunting for a 15mm Sigma at present

Elsa, To bad you are a bit far, you could borrow mine

[Frank Fremerey]

Frank, why don't we make a Delft walk through? It's a beautiful little town.

We may wait until Willem gets back from his Asian experience. He will be a perfect host.

PS: Airy will have time for us next June he told me.

[elsa hoffmann]

Wonderful images of what seems a very nice place to visit
Elsa, To bad you are a bit far, you could borrow mine

  you are so kind Armando
seems the fisheye will have to wait - just ordered a 85 f1.4 for studio