Pics from student protest with M9 and Noctilux

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I too like these, but question whether they were all at f1. e.g. second picture has quite a bit of dof. The exif says iso160, 1/2000s, and estimated at f4 by blue dot. Using old rule of thumb for a sunny day f4 is just about right.

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I'm going to try to explain myself. My words were: "no real sensation of sharp pictures" I would like to say that if you are shooting f1 and you focus at a person who is at 7m, this person will be sharp but if there are more people at 6m or 8m, they will be not sharp. They will part of the scene because there are not at enough distance to get really unfocused. So Dof is really important when shooting and aperture should be choose carefully depending of what picture you want to get. You can not shoot all the time with the same aperture not taking care of how is the main subject or subjects, how is the background and what you want to get. If you shoot a group of people and just one is sharp and the rest is just a bit unsharp, the result is a picture that looks unsharp. If you want to isolate the subject, the distance with the other part of the scene should be longer. May be at F1 not as long, but long enough.

I've read another post of photographers shooting always wide open apertures. I think it is a restriction of the posibilities of photography. It's not a matter of personal style. The personal style will be showed by the way you look for the picture, the technique, skills, courage you own, the lens you use and what your eyes are able to see.

 

Fotomiguel, I agree with most of what you say, with some differences, which are purely personal choice, as you will agree I am sure.

 

Shooting at only f1.0 is a personal choice. I do it on occasions, knowing the risks and the potential rewards. I do prefer to isolate my chosen subject using that technique and I suspect the OP was doing the same. I am aware it does not always work and think I suggested so in my first post. As for being restrictive on the possibilities of photography, well yes it is, as is any 'one lens' method often espoused on this forum. To appear contradictory to my first statement, I don't favour the 'one lens' theory (personal choice) despite my 'one aperture' theory re the Noct.

 

We are all animals of contradiction at times and I am no exception. I think perhaps we are more in agreement than our words will permit.

[Fotomiguel]

Of course is a personal choice.

If you have several options when shooting, and you in advance use always the same, your choice is clear and easy. But anyway, I prefer to decide in the last moment depending on what's going on.

[Epimetheus]

I too like these, but question whether they were all at f1. e.g. second picture has quite a bit of dof. The exif says iso160, 1/2000s, and estimated at f4 by blue dot. Using old rule of thumb for a sunny day f4 is just about right.

 

I can assure you that they were all shot at f/1. I used 3 stop nd filter which explains the shutter speed.

 

I would also like to comment on the 'free education' issue. Without it I wouldn't have been able to afford to study in a university and I wouldn't have such a good job that eventually allowed me to buy M9 and a Noctilux. I'm quite happy to pay little back to give someone else the same opportunity.

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You show great skills using your Noctilux at f1 ... I also like the dead people series, simply beautiful .

 

Armin