It's winter, often rainy, cold, dark, not the best weather to take pictures? If there would be snow at least. No willing face wants to be portrayed. But I want to push the button. Since some time I wanted to experiment with long time exposures and intended camera movements or a really small dof. Maybe completely blurry pictures? Not as a photoshop effect but sooc. Could be a nice subject for "bad" weather or night shots. I have a new old lens, a 1.4/55, it's an old 7/5 Berger-Planar design that Zeiss gave up in the 50s but was copied by many japanese companies in the 70s. The lens is not really sharp wide open, if you want sharp pictures you have to stop down to 2.8 at least, but the "blurrr" is very nice. Not very swirly, I can't stand that anymore (does anybody want my 2.0/58 Helios?), but a nice soft/creamy bokeh. All images here are made with this lens at f/2.0 on Polypan F, EI 100, developed in Mytol (Xtol stlyle, homebrewed). The Polypan F with the bad halo protection also adds some flavour.
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All pictures were shot within one hour, and this is my favorite. I wanted to take a shot from the tunnel since long and it turned out better than I was hoping. 2 seconds exposure. The only planned shot. I went out to take this shot, the others just came by intuition.
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About 1 second exposure, also handheld. The in-focus part is not tack sharp but better than expected, and the background is lovely blurred.
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Almost everything is blurry in this shot, focused at about 60 cm (2 ft). The subject is completely abstacted, dissolved to area and shape.
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Unreal place, no sunshine at all
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shop window bears
