Wide – Wider – Irix11?
Wide and wider – there is always the search for the best wide angle lens. This topic is as old as my full photography career – and I believe others are also again and again looking for the...
Lens Tests
L-Plates – the power of precision
There are lots of different L-Plate manufacturers out there but only few create L-Plates designed for specific cameras/lenses. The real advantage of having L-Plates that were designed to work for a sp...
Tilt and shift photography – visual creativity unleashed
Tilt and Shift Photography – Visual Creativity Unleashed Since winter is the time for some contemplation – and since I thought a lot about these PC/TS lenses: here a short report about my ...
Urban Night Lights
Testing some new techniques right now to generate better … or stronger bokeh effects. Have been looking for some elevated positions in Berlin to do this. These shots have been mainly done with...
Bokeh Inspiration
Winter is usual a time where we have lots of artificial light. A good time to look for ways to compose with bokeh. Some tests with the 28 f2.0 – taking the low perspective is usually rewarding a...
400mm at its best – shooting the background-blur-king
The mother of all lenses: the Nikkor AFS 400mm f2.8G VR ED This is one of the lenses that most serious sports photogs have in use regularly. Its THE bread&butter lens of the soccer/football/car ra...
Wannsee Pokal 16 im Hagelschauer
Wannsee Pokal 16 in Hagelschauern – Klasse Saisonstart mit dem Wannsee Pokal (FD, 420er, Finn, 29er) des VSaW/PYC mit über 80 startenden Boote. Außerdem erster ernst zu nehmender Test für die...
Nikkor 400mm f2.8 bits
Some more shots from the 400mm lens. Bokeh is clearly where the lens extra shines :) – as expected and wanted but it also delivers sharpness and acuity. I am not so sure right now about the conv...
Nikon AFS 400mm f2.8G VR Testing
Update: some nice bokeh shots with this lens (had half an hour yesterday with wonderful sun light to do some tests – its easy to send every for/background into a creamy bokeh fog with a 400mm f2...
Background Blur with Tele Lenses
Recently found this nice webpage where You can calculate the background blur of your Telelens-Camerasensor combination: http://howmuchblur.com Very handy to get some ideas on how the isolation power...