April Assignment Early Spring

[F, Calla & Luca]

Spring can be a season, a jump or water. Maybe other things too.

[Anne & Mr. Haley]

Thanks, Joani.   It will be hot here when you are having Spring.  Red barns around here are not the norm.  I love the pop of color they can give a dull landscape and try to get a good image everytime I see one.

[Joani, Skadi & Elli]

Love the colors.  The blue is so bright and the yellow so lovely.  We are putting up a pole barn and want to use the red...so many gorgeous colors pulled together.  We here in Michigan are 'trying' to put our shovels away...just had a big snow storm of 6 inches or so last week.  The ice is still on the inland lakes.  We are ready for color!  Beautiful picture Anne.

[Anne & Mr. Haley]

Thanks, Joani.   It will be hot here when you are having Spring.  Red barns around here are not the norm.  I love the pop of color they can give a dull landscape and try to get a good imag everytime I see one.

[GBK]

Wow, love everything about this!

[Richard Crowe]

I absolutely love using vintage manual focus lenses adapted to my Sony APSC A6500 camera.  I don't use these old lenses because they are inexpensive - although they are! Most cost well less than fifty dollars... I use them because of the distinct and artistic renditions that these lenses produce. Usually in unique and swirly bokeh effects. I most often shoot them wide open so that the optical flaws producing the distinct renditions are most evident almost like impressionistic paintings...

Russian Helios 44-4 58mm f/2.0 - This one has sort of a fairy-like effect...

Carl Zeiss 135mm f/4.0 Triotar

Meyer Optik 50mm f/1.8 Oreston

Fujian 35mm f/1.7 - this is a security camera lens

Note:  The focus peaking capability of the Sony cameras make using manual focus lenses relatively fast and easy. The areas that are in-focus shine in red!

Not exactly Spring oriented but, I like this shot with the Oreston...

[Anne & Mr. Haley]

Beautiful bokeh!  Great focusing feature for manual focus on the Sony. 

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Simply beautiful, Richard.  I love the Bokeh.

[Richard Crowe]

Thanks Ann and Nancy - these old lenses are fun with which to shoot.  However, they often can come up with pretty nice "straight" images also; such as this one of my daughter, shot with a Meyer Optik Gorlitz 135mm f/2.8 Orestegon.  I adapted this lens to my Sony A6500 with a Kipon Focal Reducer which gives me about the equivalent view with the crop sensor camera as I would get with this lens on a full frame camera.  It also increases the aperture by one stop, making it an equivalent 135mm f/2.0. This lens is about 60-years old...

My daughter likes this image so well that she is using it on her business website.  

[F, Calla & Luca]

Beautiful image of a beautiful daughter.

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

It is a beautiful photo - of course your daughter is beautiful to begin with.

[Richard Crowe]

Thanks all...  We are quite proud of her.  Hard to believe that she turned 49 this week!

[F, Calla & Luca]

These are terrific.