RetroCamera » Nature http://www.retrocamera.net Old retrocamera equipment in a digital photography world. Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:41:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Whooper swans with Super-Takumar 135mm http://www.retrocamera.net/whooper-swans-with-super-takumar-135mm.html http://www.retrocamera.net/whooper-swans-with-super-takumar-135mm.html#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:56:57 +0000 Mattias http://www.retrocamera.net/?p=922 Yesterday I bicycled round lake Tysslingen and made this image of whooper swans with Super-Takumar 135mm/3.5 M42-lens on Canon EOS 350D. The swans here are an attraction for wildlifephotographers every year, and they were lined up at the fence with their big tele AF-lenses… all getting the same image I guess, of the same birds and with the same weird look on their faces when they looked upon my little Takumar ;)

Swans at lake Tysslingen

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And you need to crawl to get good closups. It’s most often not fun looking at pictures taken with the ground as background.

If you click on the images, you go to the Flickr-page – just click the browsers backbutton to get back here.

Standing guard
Heather
Lingonberry and heather
Lingonberry
Lingonberry
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This image of grass, I wanted to relay the sence off standing in a field with waving straws, the freedom. One might even start thinking about what happened to the straws not standing up any more: Crop field circle by aliens? Animals having a feast? Winds?

But the image is very simple. I have tried to cut out what I wanted to show and no distractions. That’s why I sometimes have a hard time with photographers who want the biggest effect out of everything, to use the most extreme angle or perspective or color just because they can not because the image needs it. It’s also why I have a hard time with photographers only concerned by technical qualities – they bore me to death. But that’s just me.

The field

This field was made with the 60′s M42-lens aus Jena Sonnar 135mm/3.5 zebra on Canon EOS 350D.

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Geum rivale L / Humleblomster
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Akleja
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Growing up

Growing up

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Leberblümchen

Leberblümchen

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Ice pattern with Super-Tak 135mm

Ice pattern with Super-Tak 135mm

Spruce on ice with Super-Tak 135

Spruce on ice with Super-Tak 135

Ice world with Super-Tak 135

Ice world with Super-Tak 135

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