Daily Challenge Today 1746

[MoonMind]

Start Date

Jan 10, 2025

End Date

Jan 10, 2025

Et ceterum censeo: No pasarán.

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[MoonMind]

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Night sun ...

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[drd1135]

It hasn't broken freezing for more than an hour since Monday. I have many ice and cold pictures, but none better than our old friend the balloon still hanging on in an icy creek.

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[wee-pics]

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Exploring perspectives with my new toy.

 

[Juli]

Lonely

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[Briar]

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[donlaw]

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[MiguelATF]

Waking up after a midday nap....ahhh, the life of a cat.

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[mpeterson]

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[wee-pics]

The posts in this thread are absolutely fantastic. It's one of my daily highlights to see what you all have captured again with your special look through the lens. Very inspiring indeed and such a cool variation.

 

[MiguelATF]

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Exploring perspectives with my new toy.

Based on the hand-full of images I've seen you create with your 'new toy', Walter... I would say it is a truly worthy addition to your photographic tool chest. It's hard to put into words exactly why - but it seems like a wonderful lens.

 

[wee-pics]

Based on the hand-full of images I've seen you create with your 'new toy', Walter... I would say it is a truly worthy addition to your photographic tool chest. It's hard to put into words exactly why - but it seems like a wonderful lens.

I've always thought I'm a tele-lens man. It certainly is easier to isolate your subject completely from its surroundings, to let the background just dissolve into a creamy bokeh. Till now I used the wide lenses (35, 28 and 24mm) mainly for landscape and architecture. Of course there were lots of situations where even 24 was not wide enough. But I didn't want a lens with those unnatural wide-angle distortions.

Being not really sure if it would the right thing to buy, I waited for a special offer in the refurbished market. And when I saw it at just a little more than half-price I decided this would be my perfect Christmas present.

In the first weeks I've been fooling around with this lens I realized that this lens offers me completely new ways for interesting perspectives and completely new creative paths. Yet one must know how to fill the foreground, image composition is of paramount importance. Taking this into account you get amazing results. So it might well be that the 8mm range will become one of my favourite focal lengths next to the 85mm and the 200mm.

Whatever lens you use, you must know its special perspective. With fixed focus lenses our feet were the most important tool for composition. The danger with zooms is that people tend to forget about the perspective of the different focal lengths and just zoom instead of replacing themselves. With a zoom I usually decide from the motif which focal length I want to use and then get closer to or farther away from the object to get the best arrangement consistent with the perspective.