January 2017

[Frank Fremerey]

January 1/30

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02 01 02017

[Frank Fremerey]

I am deeply impressed, Fons! A picture taken with soul, going right into mine.

[Frank Fremerey]

#13: John, I can breathe this shot.

[Frank Fremerey]

Fresh ice on the new years' first day.

Very interssting color spots, I guess these are stones under the ice?

[Fons Baerken]

Thank you, Frank and earlier, John and Akira.

[John Geerts]

#13: John, I can breathe this shot.

Thanks Frank.  First sun of 2017 

[Fons Baerken]

January third



This mornings' sun-up over the Bosche broek

D3 -- 58mm f/1.4g

[Frank Fremerey]

That is more like a painting than a photo, Fons

Today sunny. I take the D600 with the 105E for a walk!

[Frank Fremerey]

January 2/30

.street front garden.

03 01 02017

[Jacques]

3rd January, in the world of commerce Christmas is now over for the next 9 and a half months !

[John Geerts]

January third

Great sunrise Fons.  At first I thought it was the 17-35...

[John Geerts]

Very typical new-years -action, Jacques.  Nicely captured.

Morning dawn, before the forecasted rain will come...

[Frank Fremerey]

That is an unusual rendering, John.

Some bubbles in the middle, some cat eyes nearer to the frame border thatblook more loke 105E cat eyes. Some unsharp needles embedded into sharp ones, near monochrome.

A rainy feel... confusing.

[John Geerts]

Thanks Frank. Yes it is an unusual rendering perhaps.

Shot with the Df with the 105mm /2.5 from 1969. Actually I was only interested in the AI-ring, and got it cheap as it has some minor micro scratches.   

But I like the sharpness wide open, and the rendering so it will stay on the Df for a while 

[Frank Fremerey]

Thanks Frank. Yes it is an unusual rendering perhaps.
Shot with the Df with the 105mm /2.5 from 1969. Actually I was only interested in the AI-ring, and got it cheap as it has some minor micro scratches.   
But I like the sharpness wide open, and the rendering so it will stay on the Df for a while 

I thought long and hard about having unsharp elements in front of any shot and I feel it does not work most of the time. Yet, depending on the subject, it is sometimes difficult in the final result to determine which elements are in front which are in the back. I generally love no blur up front and if there is blur up front I love it as smooth as it can get, like in Ron Scubadiver's super shot of the pink bride on the zebra crossing in Vietnam...