Jannes Boonstra
Little fox (E-M1 + 75mm)
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Kasper Anias Møller
EM-5 & lumix 20mm f/1.7
Baarlezander Vuikerd
E-PL5 (IR converted) / 20mm 1.7
Johan Hoitink
Morning dew on the dutch moors in Hilversum Netherlands.
GH4, 3.2, 1/160, iso200.
Shot in between my first attempt to film a nature documentary.
André Chrost – Photodesign
Cascade de tufs in Baume-les-Messieurs / France with Em-5 and 12-50mm
Stephane Lanoux
Black Hat
Olympus O-M10 & Panasonic 20/1.7
36 Responses
Wow that looks awesome! I mean the number 1 photo of the fox
think so too, no need for different dof…the mix of B&W, the right back ground and deadcenter framing in a quare format makes it very to the point without showing off skills,enough to feel the envy
Thank you!
thanks a lot!
Yes, I think it is just nice as it is. I like it a lot, too. It has a superb, classic mood.
thanks!!
I’ve seen better series, the fox is nice but the rest is lacking: overediting is never good as can be seen by the halo around the persons in the last picture, and there are quite some blacks and whites with no detail left on several pictures. Plant pictures should be pleasing to my eyes, but this one comes off very harsh.
I like the waterfall. Over-editing is just again a matter of taste.
Let’s focus at the giant white space: I can see how overexposing the sky works for some pictures, but the darker areas on the left still exist of a single black color without any detail. On top of that there is some strange blue coloring I suppose comes from brightening the shadows, so even the overexposing didn’t work out the way it should.
These aren’t sins, just decisions. There are no should or should nots.
It’s usually best to follow best practice, and of course you are free to refrain from following it when you think it’s better. But the general opinion about most of these pictures isn’t good, look around you in the comments. Does that say something about our taste or about the pictures? Let’s go for both.
An interesting subject. We, most 43rumors visitors, are photographers, and we can judge each other’s pictures, but are we the right audience to do this? Is the customer of a photographer often a photographer himself? When I see a nice picture I don’t think I want to buy it, I just think I want to make a picture that is at least as nice as that one.
The fox hands down is ridiculous. It’s not over edited, and even though the background is blacked out…if you look close, the fox has retained a lot of detail in the shadow areas. Stunning pic.
thanks 🙂
The fox photo is completely stunning. Kudos to the photographer.
Thanks!
Apart from fox i don’t see anything interesting. Waterfall photo has really nice framing, but it’s either way over-edited or simply wrong time of the day.
The fox photo would be great if it had more DOF.
And its fur would have been marble smooth if it had been shot with Full Frame (TM). The fur looks like that cos m43 sensor is noisy and low res.
cmon, Jv wished wider, not shallower DoF. Just stopping down a bit would result in better image. There is nothing about war of sensor sizes. Shame on you, kids 🙂
Better? According to who? You? I really don’t think so. This one is just nice and distinctive.
Yes, stopping down would improve the image in my opinion. Black and white captues texture and shallow DOF elimates too much. I am not a fan of shallow DOF.
I like it as it is. Just a matter of taste.
and your opinion is another one out of the billions that live on this planet that don’t mean squat to this photographer.
That is crap nonsense. There is 12 megapixel full frame, 24, and 36 megapixel too. This picture is not challenged either by a difficult exposure value (favoring 12) or a need for more pixels (favoring 36). At the same aperture, the DOF on the Full Frame would have worsened the effect. Marble smooth? I think I saw a fox here. If you want marble smooth the subject has to be marble or smooth, or your metaphor is vacuous. Fur is not smooth. It has texture, and this photo displays loads of rich texture. The fur “looks like that” because the lens aperture gives a certain depth of field AND the sharp focus was set on the face. I do not see any noise or shortage of resolution.
I’ll give you 4/5 and a thumbs up for the quality trolling.
The more I see results from the 75mm the more I know it’s inevitable that it must end up in my bag, somehow someday. I really like the fox, and the underground tunnel shot has a certain film-like charm, too (despite the halo around the woman, it reminds me of 1960’s French movies).
Jannes, how did you get this close to a young fox?
Was it behind bars and you could shoot between them?
Great pic.
it was in a zoo, and the 75mm has a shallow DOF, which made the bars disappear 😉
I don’t like animals in cages. Nice fox portrait though.
me neither,
Even though its for the greater good. I hope these cages can learn people how important wildlife is, and that the biodiversity is what earth made so beautiful. Zoo’s have an important message to tell and for whats worth, I hope its not too late.
Holy stuff! That fox pic is algebraic!
thanks!
I loved the fox. Although I love bokeh too, I would rather have had the fur on the feet and fanny as sharply rendered. It would have been a total pain and drain on time, but using layers in Photoshop to regain the blurred background would have been an acceptable trade-off to me. I feel a critic’s remorse because it is a very beautiful photograph. The little fur-ball probably didn’t hold still long enough. Hey come back over here you little ruffian. I guess it is a matter of opinion. Another reader wants MORE depth of field. I want plenty but not at cost.
i like bokeh too, thats one reason i used it, another reason, i i had more DOF, i also got more cage visible. so it was this or more cage 😉
Thank-you for being gracious to explain the trade-off. Photo work seems always to require alternatives and decisions. Once in a while you get a perfect shot.