What a handsome portrait, excellent stuff.

His expression, which you captured excellently, is well known to me also.

Thanks for the kind words,

She’s definitely getting more patient about me fiddling around with the camera but still has a tendency to pose nicely until I’m just about to press the shutter release!

Here's a couple of shots of my usual subject with a new-to-me Porst 1.2/55mm lens. As far as I recall, they are all wide open. It's pretty fiddly to get the focus right with my K5iis viewfinder, I used LV to help on at least one of them.


Porst 1.2/55 Nr.1 by d00d0c, on Flickr


Porst 1.2/55 Nr.2 by d00d0c, on Flickr


Porst 1.2/55 Nr.3 by d00d0c, on Flickr

And another couple with a not-so-new-to-me S-M-C Takumar 2.8/120mm but unusually for me taken with ISO 6400:


S-M-C Tak 2.8/120 Nr.1 by d00d0c, on Flickr


S-M-C Tak 2.8/120 Nr.2 by d00d0c, on Flickr

C&C welcome as always

Interesting lens, whose capabilities are shown very well in your pictures.

I googled it to try and find out a bit more. Here‘s some interesting history of that design:
link (in German but can probably be translated with Google etc.)

As far as I can understand the Primotar are based on a Zeiss Tessar design and were released after the patent for the Tessar had expired.

An interesting feature, also mentioned in some of the marketing material for the Primotar E 3.5/50 included on the linked page, is that although it is a relatively modest f/3.5, there is a wider aperture for focussing which is designed to be used for focussing but otherwise not usable for taking the photo. The logic is reported to be that most amateurs stopped down to f/4 or higher in practice anyway so an optimized lens at reasonable cost makes some sense. Anyway, it seems like they had a bit of a lukewarm reception. Despite the optical quality and relatively large amount of advertising, production didn‘t run for very long so one in the condition you have might not be all that common.

Works great as a whole set for me, excellent stuff.

The landscape reminds me a bit of the edge of the Pennines, living abroad these days that makes me a bit homesick.

I particularly enjoyed the last colour one and the lonely sheep.

He‘s gorgeous, congratulation on the addition and good to see he is already appearing in your photos.

They‘re all spaniels right? Are they all the same variant of spaniel? If so it‘s amazing how different they all look.

Expertly done, you’re shown what‘s possible with something which costs less than a tank of fuel.

I‘ve heard of stacking for macro but it‘s never crossed my mind to use it to capture the moon.

Thanks for sharing.

What a strange coincidence.

I like Nr3, looks a bit like a tree has melted into itself

Thanks for the suggestions, we‘re getting light like that most days at the moment so will come in useful.

I’ve posted quite a few photos of my dog recently, apologies for flooding the board with dog pictures but I have a question about handling WB in rapidly changing light.

I took these whilst out on a walk the other day. When I first arrived, the upper part of the vineyard was bathed in golden light just prior to the sunset. As I was there the sun was disappearing pretty quickly and the light was changing all the time.

My camera is a K5iis, all these were taken with the same lens, a Samsung 35mm f2. I don’t recall setting anything to do with the WB so it would probably have been on ‘default’ settings, whatever they are. I always shoot in raw and have never paid much attention to WB with the camera settings and was generally able to get the results I wanted in PP with minor adjustments. I use the raw files processed through Apple Photos btw.

The most satisfactory results with my limited knowledge of PP were to manually adjust in temperature/tint mode, generally sticking to similar settings around 4400K (and zero tint) for the first few and as far as I recall increasing the temperature a bit for the later ones as the most extreme golden light passed. I wanted to capture the tones as I recalled them (it was only a day or two ago!) and this was the simplest method I could find to do that. I tried picking a white spot but feel this made things look too cool and not how I recalled it.

I tried using the same WB settings for all but this also didn’t quite match my recollection of the reality, might be I just forgot how it really looked though!

Any suggestions?


Checking out the area by d00d0c, on Flickr


Brown eyed girl by d00d0c, on Flickr


Sunny face by d00d0c, on Flickr


Weather changing by d00d0c, on Flickr


Sunset reflected in eyes by d00d0c, on Flickr


Weinberg reflected in eye by d00d0c, on Flickr