Dr Klaus Schmitt
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Sunny but frosty early morning as seen through a Zeiss Jena Visionar 1.6/100mm + Speedbooster...
Found another one, nearly exactly the same, one open, one stopped down more...
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I prefer my "signature style" as you may have guessed Reason is, that I intend to guide the viewer's eye to what I think is important to see (and to avoid letting the eyes wander around...)
Found another one, nearly exactly the same, one open, one stopped down more...
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I prefer my "signature style" as you may have guessed Reason is, that I intend to guide the viewer's eye to what I think is important to see (and to avoid letting the eyes wander around...)
Dear Michael,
when I was younger, all I wanted is max sharpness in my images, crystal clear I wanted all. Getting older I was drifting more and more towards being much more selective, hence also my work with projection lenses w/o even having a built in aperture. This also leading to a need for a much more thoughtful and careful composing at shooting time (as I do not crop any of my works afterwards) and especially setting the razor thin DOF exactly to what is the most important for me in an image, hence directing also the later viewers eye to(wards) that. The need for a very pleasant front and rear bokeh accompanied that and hence why I am still experimenting with a variety of such, rather exotic lenses.
I do hope that explains it a little... ;-)
Dear Michael,
when I was younger, all I wanted is max sharpness in my images, crystal clear I wanted all. Getting older I was drifting more and more towards being much more selective, hence also my work with projection lenses w/o even having a built in aperture. This also leading to a need for a much more thoughtful and careful composing at shooting time (as I do not crop any of my works afterwards) and especially setting the razor thin DOF exactly to what is the most important for me in an image, hence directing also the later viewers eye to(wards) that. The need for a very pleasant front and rear bokeh accompanied that and hence why I am still experimenting with a variety of such, rather exotic lenses.
I do hope that explains it a little... ;-)
But my father-in-law still used a cardboard wand-on-a-stick to darken the periphery and corners of his portraits . . .
Hi, Asher,
That was done during the exposure?
Doug,
No, but that would work too! It was done under the enlarger, but it works the same!
Dear Michael,
when I was younger, all I wanted is max sharpness in my images, crystal clear I wanted all. Getting older I was drifting more and more towards being much more selective, hence also my work with projection lenses w/o even having a built in aperture. This also leading to a need for a much more thoughtful and careful composing at shooting time (as I do not crop any of my works afterwards) and especially setting the razor thin DOF exactly to what is the most important for me in an image, hence directing also the later viewers eye to(wards) that. The need for a very pleasant front and rear bokeh accompanied that and hence why I am still experimenting with a variety of such, rather exotic lenses.
I do hope that explains it a little... ;-)
Thanks guys,
Asher, indeed I'm very aware of these historic developments and am still hunting for an affordable P&S lens, or even a Kalosat. These so called "soft focus" lenses deliberately introduce some spherical abberration which gives that wanted glow effect, from white into the dark (only such lenses can do that, vaseline, stocking, filters all such have dark penetrating the light, very different IMHO).
I like lenses which to some extend have such effect and are very fast, giving the wanted thin DOF. Great for portraits also, but this is a field I'm only started to gradually gravitating into...
Klaus,
I am fortunate enough to have both a Visual Quality Pinkham and Smith as well as a PS945, by Cooke.
Asher