Beautiful bokeh! Let me see yours!

[Mr Bean]

Blue pin-cushions up close.
300mm f4 lens @ f4.5 and sitting at the minimum focusing distance.

 

[mb66energy]

Just these "poor man's workhorses" do fine in the bokeh department, IMO ...

1) 100 2.8 MACRO non-IS @ f/4.0
2) 70-200 4.0 L non-IS @ 200mm, f/8.0, near MFD

 

[Besisika]

Canon 35mm 1.4; from Montreal Zombie Walk 2014
Zombie Walk_015 by Besisika, on Flickr

 

[kaykay]

My Favourite Branch...

Beautiful bokeh.

 

[Pinchers of Peril]

Just these "poor man's workhorses" do fine in the bokeh department, IMO ...

1) 100 2.8 MACRO non-IS @ f/4.0
2) 70-200 4.0 L non-IS @ 200mm, f/8.0, near MFD

That Bee shot is awesome! Seems like a pretty hard shot to nail.

 

[thiagoyk]

New on the forum:

24-105mm f/4
The Fly - Big by thiagoyk, on Flickr

50mm f/1.4
Night Rain by thiagoyk, on Flickr

 

[TAW]

1DX & 200 f2

 

[infared]

here are a few...one from a job...two for the "love of"...

 

[candyman]

New on the forum:

24-105mm f/4
The Fly - Big by thiagoyk, on Flickr

50mm f/1.4
Night Rain by thiagoyk, on Flickr

Very nice! Espcially the second one.

 

[candyman]

here are a few...one from a job...two for "love of"...

Great subjects. Great bokeh. I Like them!

 

[candyman]

1DX & 200 f2

Beautiful! I like the colors. And, almost impossible to get bad bokeh with the 200 f/2 8)

 

[candyman]

Just these "poor man's workhorses" do fine in the bokeh department, IMO ...

1) 100 2.8 MACRO non-IS @ f/4.0
2) 70-200 4.0 L non-IS @ 200mm, f/8.0, near MFD

That Bee shot is awesome! Seems like a pretty hard shot to nail.

Agree. Wonderful, well done!

 

[spandau]

Goshawk flying through a colorful background.

 

[Schultzie]

1Dx 70-200 @ f/4

by SauceyJack, on Flickr

 

[mb66energy]

Just these "poor man's workhorses" do fine in the bokeh department, IMO ...

1) 100 2.8 MACRO non-IS @ f/4.0
2) 70-200 4.0 L non-IS @ 200mm, f/8.0, near MFD

That Bee shot is awesome! Seems like a pretty hard shot to nail.

Agree. Wonderful, well done!

Thanks for your comments!

I checked the file: it was manually focused and only one shot done.
The subject is what we call in german a "Schwebewespe" or literally translated,
a "hoovering wasp". These little animals can stay at the same 3D point
like high quality quadocopters - everything in a mere 50 milligrams package that
doesn't need to recharge a battery on the grid ... wonders of nature!

If you move slowly they stay - I tried to get a nice background by varying the
angle slowly and focusing fine tuning was done by varying the distance to the
"wasp".

The 40D has a very good focusing screen and I was "socialized" with manual focus
cameras in the early 1990ies (the trusty Canon EF) which helped me a lot + I had
some luck to get that shoot too!

(I am really excited by the 7D mark ii which might help to shoot such subjects with
a lot of AF support !)

 

[sandfish]

5DMIII, 100mm Macro

 

[K-amps]

Zeiss Distagon 35mm f1.4, 1DX
1/30s, f1.4, ISO320

Now, that is creamy and smooth! That doesn't look like a standard turntable and pickup; are you an audiophile, or you found this gear elsewhere?

It's my second addiction. It is a SOTA Millennia turntable, with a Triplanar VII arm and a Lyra Helicon pickup. Pass labs Xono, X1 and X600 amplifiers, Wadia 861 SE CD player and Martin Logan electrostatic speakers, all connected with Synergistic research cables. The sound is quite acceptable

Would love to be your best friend haha, glad to see I am not the only one with similar passions.

 

[K-amps]

Sublime is the word that comes to mind when I see all your images.... thanks for giving me a moment of peace and tranquility!

180L

 

[wjauch]

Canon 6D, Nikkor 180mm 2.8 lens via an eBay adapter. 1/4000 sec at f 4.0. Shot from the back of the boat, lots of spray in the foreground

 

[K-amps]

Does this count? I did a photoshoot of my little one's Lego indulgence.

100L with Kenko extensions