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Jacques Pochoy

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Re: April 2019
« Reply #240 on: April 20, 2019, 11:15:33 »
Took the faithful Df out of the mothball bag as this is the camera I plan to rely on for the upcoming NG Scotland meet-up. Apparently my love for the camera, albeit unabated, wasn't sufficient to give good photos. I need to put in some training exercises in the days ahead .... Rusty love.

This is a try at Gagea lutea (Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem). Df, 105mm f/4 Micro-Nikkor. I do need to improve my technique.

I know the feeling ! I have a mixed bunch of AF and MF lenses. When I'm lazy I use the AF ones, but when getting back to MF, there is a short but albeit real time to re-adapt !!! It's not so much about "slowing down", it's more about the constraints that I believe gets me more interesting pictures  :o
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Re: April 2019
« Reply #241 on: April 20, 2019, 12:48:53 »
Oh well - I'm soldiering on with the Df -- need to engage that rust remover from my technique.

Trying again, this time with a Tussilago farfara. The flower head has entered the final, male stage of its development thus in a very short time now flowering is a memory of the past.

Df + 125/2.5 APO CV.

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Re: April 2019
« Reply #242 on: April 20, 2019, 13:18:21 »
April 20

Summer is here, temperatures of 25 centigrade.



Df  50mm f/1.4

Df still in use here, smaller size and weight, accepts all mf lenses, smaller filesize, excellent iq.

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Re: April 2019
« Reply #243 on: April 20, 2019, 13:42:15 »
Trying out a 300mm 2.8  :o @2.8

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Re: April 2019
« Reply #244 on: April 20, 2019, 14:24:38 »
Trying out a 300mm 2.8  :o @2.8

Which version Paco, a very fine lens but big and heavy. : ;)

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Re: April 2019
« Reply #245 on: April 20, 2019, 14:27:52 »
Vrii version. As of now, I'm the proud owner! Oeoeoeoeooe Always wanted one like this for shows.

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Re: April 2019
« Reply #246 on: April 20, 2019, 14:45:51 »
Felicidades señor.

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Re: April 2019
« Reply #247 on: April 20, 2019, 15:03:11 »
Gracias Señor Baerken  ;)

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Re: April 2019
« Reply #248 on: April 20, 2019, 16:08:45 »
Oh well - I'm soldiering on with the Df -- need to engage that rust remover from my technique.

Trying again, this time with a Tussilago farfara. The flower head has entered the final, male stage of its development thus in a very short time now flowering is a memory of the past.

Df + 125/2.5 APO CV.

Great color effect which is an essential aspects of your style which I always adore!


April 20

Summer is here, temperatures of 25 centigrade.

The appropriate subject is nicely chosen and captured!


Vrii version. As of now, I'm the proud owner! Oeoeoeoeooe Always wanted one like this for shows.

Your arsenal seems to be increasingly heavily equipped!  Wonderful portraiture!
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Re: April 2019
« Reply #249 on: April 20, 2019, 16:12:14 »
April 20.  A nightscape.
"The eye is blind if the mind is absent." - Confucius

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Re: April 2019
« Reply #250 on: April 20, 2019, 16:28:50 »
From yesterdays walk  ;)

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Re: April 2019
« Reply #251 on: April 20, 2019, 18:06:02 »
I love this shot, like a movie still from a Monty Python
Thanks Frank.  Yes I had the same thought.

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Re: April 2019
« Reply #252 on: April 20, 2019, 18:08:09 »
In the Park

D850   300/4.5 ED

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Re: April 2019
« Reply #253 on: April 20, 2019, 18:09:22 »
Vrii version. As of now, I'm the proud owner! Oeoeoeoeooe Always wanted one like this for shows.
Welcome to the club of Nikkor Powerlifters  :)

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Re: April 2019
« Reply #254 on: April 20, 2019, 21:49:44 »
You should try the 300/2 Nikkor - a boat anchor of a lens.