CZJ Visionar f1.6 100mm + SpeedBooster

That makes it a f1.15 72mm combo. Windy day, sun disappeared, tried it nevertheless fully open.
Have a look....


Full set is here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kds315/sets/72157656458555811

And there is that special portrait ...

Btw. this shows why I normally shoot at an angle when using the lens fully open to make best use of the razor thin DOF...

As usual ... as usual ...

Even the cat is interested !

Obrigado Antonio, but that was rather a mouse she saw... ;-)

I have a 60 mm Visionar on which I hope to mount to an adapter with an aperture and a helical focus.

Tested it and it gives beautiful pics just held in place with appropriate length tubes. Hoping to be able to use it on people! With flowers it has great potential. Hopefully something near your results!

Asher

Dr Klaus Schmitt said:

And there is that special portrait ...

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Klaus,

This cat is so impressive and almost jumps out of the picture. I wonder if the green margin of chromatic aberration helps this experience or just the limited DOF?

Asher

Dr Klaus Schmitt said:

Btw. this shows why I normally shoot at an angle when using the lens fully open to make best use of the razor thin DOF...

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This is a fascinating appearance, Klaus! The flower appears to flow on the surface of a "bokeh" surface by some surface tension effect!

Asher

Dr Klaus Schmitt said:

That makes it a f1.15 72mm combo. Windy day, sun disappeared, tried it nevertheless fully open.
Have a look....

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Klaus,

There's so much in each individual picture that it's worthwhile to slow down and then to re-experience each of these photographs on their own. This one in particular has a simple devise that makes it dynamic and that's the placement of the flower on the path that would take it between two spheres of aberrant brightness of the bokeh effect. Such a u inquest composition works for this particular picture in make the flowe appear to have some "vital force" driving itself upwards, like a rocket ship propelled by some ion discharge to close in on the spheres above!

This dynamic effect, either accidental or, likely as not planned, makes for a more vibrant presence of the flower in its 2D milieux!

Asher

Thanks Asher!

Yep, there is some prominent CA, but it is also backlit in green by that prominent grass BG. It was amatter of split seconds, as she saw a mouse and was all concentration and tension and flashed away in a quickness; a lucky shot.

That "floating flower" lookes already interesting when I saw it and decided to take it vertically from above 90 degrees to make it "float". The high speed of f1.15 indeed makes is look like on silk...

It was "designed bokeh" BG admittedly and I wanted that prominent Echinacea flower against that dark BG between those Blobs; I quite like it, worked out well ;-)