What's new
L-MOUNT Forum

Register a free account now!

If you are registered, you get access to the members only section, can participate in the buy & sell second hand forum and last but not least you can reserve your preferred username before someone else takes it.

*** March 2026 Image & Video Thread ***

pdk42 said:
Very nice. I've tried some studio/beauty stuff in the past, but it didn't really do much for me. Probably as much a case of my ignorance and inexperience as anything else, but I sort of came to the conclusion it was more about the model than the photographer.
Click to expand...
It was a strange experience. It feels rude to me to demand a model pose for you - especially if you're asking them to do something like 'smile suggestively at the camera' - but from what a couple of the sponsors were saying, it's rude not to interact with the model and encourage them. Not that anything I said was going to carry any weight, they all had crowds of people around them most of the show. ^^;;

Where I think the photographer makes a difference - aside from the usual composition factor - is in finding the right moment to snap the shutter as the model went through their poses. Strikes me as being like sports photography that way.
 
Travis Butler said:
It was a strange experience. It feels rude to me to demand a model pose for you - especially if you're asking them to do something like 'smile suggestively at the camera' - but from what a couple of the sponsors were saying, it's rude not to interact with the model and encourage them. Not that anything I said was going to carry any weight, they all had crowds of people around them most of the show. ^^;;

Where I think the photographer makes a difference - aside from the usual composition factor - is in finding the right moment to snap the shutter as the model went through their poses. Strikes me as being like sports photography that way.
Click to expand...
And post-processing skill... although I guess a lot is done with AI now a days,.
 
Sunday evening was incredibly crowded — so much so that I ended up standing right on the roadside. Locals were looking at me like I wasn’t a photographer at all, but some kind of engineer doing road measurements or surveying work. The best viewpoints were unfortunately on private property, where I couldn’t access, so I had to work with what was available from where I stood.

Shot on Panasonic S1 with the Panasonic Lumix 100–500mm lens at 100mm, f/16.
_PDM6450.jpg
 
Yesterday I went out shooting. Due to limited time, I decided not to travel far and went to a nearby forest instead. I set myself a task: to find a seemingly unremarkable location and try to see something interesting in it. To capture a frame among the repeating trees — in that mass where everything seems the same — and still find something unique. I’m not sure how well I managed to accomplish this, but the process itself mattered. It was an attempt to see more in a simple place and make the most of what is right here and now.

Shot on Panasonic Lumix S1
Lenses: Lumix 20–60mm, Lumix 50mm f/1.8
2.jpg
3.1.jpg
4.jpg
 
DMhalamaha said:
Yesterday I went out shooting. Due to limited time, I decided not to travel far and went to a nearby forest instead. I set myself a task: to find a seemingly unremarkable location and try to see something interesting in it. To capture a frame among the repeating trees — in that mass where everything seems the same — and still find something unique. I’m not sure how well I managed to accomplish this, but the process itself mattered. It was an attempt to see more in a simple place and make the most of what is right here and now.

Shot on Panasonic Lumix S1
Lenses: Lumix 20–60mm, Lumix 50mm f/1.8
View attachment 16985
Click to expand...
I like the first best, although the third is also good.
 
A few final tests of the Minolta 58/1.2 before deciding whether to try and clean it...

55164499430_51c3ec3a1c_b.jpg

20260319-SDIM9729 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
Sigma fp, Minolta MC Rokkor-X 58/1.2

55164123246_f4660ef0b7_b.jpg

20260319-SDIM9739 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

And the Soligor 35-140 for comparison:

55163220197_e4798a959a_b.jpg

20260319-SDIM9779 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

55164364699_7aa7339166_b.jpg

20260319-SDIM9754 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
MC 58/1.2

55164123166_1e9e0212ac_b.jpg

20260319-SDIM9759 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

The almost liquid look on bottles like this was what grabbed my attention with the Kiron 70-150 that had similar staining on the elements:

52785267778_23832b7129_b.jpg

20230328-P1000889 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
Lumix S5, Kiron 70-150/4

And that look was what I was taking a gamble on when I bought the Minolta with such obvious element issues. So I wanted to see if the Minolta had it before trying to clean it. And well... it does have it, but not enough for me to put up with the problems the element staining causes in other photos. When I get a chance, it'll be cleaned.
 
It is that time of year :) I decided to give my less used lenses a spin
PANA7477-2.jpg
  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 50/F1.8
  • ƒ/2
  • 50mm
  • 1/3200s
  • ISO 100
PANA7483.jpg
  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • ƒ/2
  • 50mm
  • 1/2500s
  • ISO 100
PANA7482.jpg
  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • ƒ/2
  • 50mm
  • 1/5000s
  • ISO 100
 
PANA7476.jpg
  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • ƒ/2.8
  • 100mm
  • 1/1000s
  • ISO 100
PANA7470.jpg
  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • ƒ/2.8
  • 100mm
  • 1/2500s
  • ISO 100
PANA7467.jpg
  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • ƒ/2.8
  • 100mm
  • 1/1000s
  • ISO 100
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top