**This week with your MF camera, Apr 15-21 2023**

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Drawer pulls, Hasselblad X2D, Mystery lens.

If this was a Rorschach test, I would see an angry snake face or a happy frog face. Is this a setup, or this was just there when you pulled out the drawer and it looked interesting so you took a picture?

The latter.

I just got an ultra wide lens for my gfx50s. It's a 20 year old Sigma 17-35mm f/2.8-4 in Nikon mount with a mechanical aperture ring. It mates perfectly with my Fuji and my Sony with appropriate dumb adaptors. Manual focus, of course. It covers the GFX sensor in square crop (barely). The edge quality looks, umm, let's call it "dubious". It cost a princely £96 so I don't really care about imperfections.

It's rained heavily every time I've attempted to step outside and use it and at the moment I have precisely 11 images at 17mm to choose from. It's very wide!

This shot I find interesting (even though it's really boring), just my wheel barrow blown over by the wind. I find it interesting because to my eyes it exhibits a sort of (hard to explain) "being sucked into a tunnel" effect. Kinda like you could step into the picture and be pulled into the background. Is it just me, or does anyone else see this? If you do see it, what's causing the effect?

Backbay Nat'l Wildlife Refuge, Virginia Beach, VA USA
Fuji GFX100s, GF20-35 f4.0 @25mm, ISO100, f16, 30Sec with 10Stop ND filter + polarizer.
Comments are welcome

You mean jaw dropping jealousy wanted, lol. Wow. That is amazing. Gorgeous. Simply gorgeous.

A couple of shots walking around at night. X2D with 55v XCD lens. ISO 6400 looks great. C&C always welcome.

Somerville-0001255-2 by reddott2012, on Flickr
Somerville-0001265 by reddott2012, on Flickr

Rich

Thank you. Much appreciated.

Swings in down town Jesup, Georgia.
Rokinon Series II 85mm 1.4.

Swings by Stephen Brown, on Flickr

Kiev 88, one photo pano, lomo 400.

I'm never normally a huge fan of deliberately poor quality photos made just to look different (leaky cameras and so on) even though I like abstracted photos. This is nice, though, works well. Enough connection with the reality of the subject. Reminds me a bit of the work of Skye based photographer/digital artist Cath Waters cathwaters.com/products/inner-sound-skye-and-scalpay-prints

It's nice that people think I'm skilled enough to shoot something deliberately poorly, as opposed to just being a poor photographer, lol. This really all just stems from how surreal the original looks.

Just playing around in Photoshop and one thing leads to another and next thing I know I'm learning PSD files have size limits PSB files don't. lol.

(leaving this here for the question) Does Imgur not work for hosting images here?

First time posting to this site, in fact not much of a poster to any sites. Honestly, over the years I frequented various forums reading and appreciating the tremendous knowledge, insight, experience and of course the friendly banter. With the demise of DPR and the start of DPRv has motivated me to participate more.

So here we go my first photo! Taken this past Sunday when Summer suddenly appeared in Ontario, Canada and some of the small wild flowers popped out of the ground. Taken with an X2D and Nikon 60mm Macro with Fotodiox. Stooping low on the ground for awhile to try and manually focus stack but to no avail with the light breeze; so 1 shot only. At my age, cramped while getting up and still sore days later, LOL. Things we do to get a shot.

Photo is SOOC except for the Lr vignetting to reduce background distractions from the surrounding dead under brush.

Works for me, nice. I'm not normally a fan of flower photography because too many people just photograph the flowers "straight" without attempting much artistry. Flower record shots. But when done with artistry like this, flowers become something more than just flowers!

Thank you David!

GFX 50s + Canon EF 70-300mm f4.5 IS USM v1 @ Sentosa, Singapore