Camera: Sony A700
Lens: Sony 18-70mm F3.5-5.6 DT kit lens
Aperture: F3.5

Camera: Sony A700
Lens: Minolta 70-210mm F4 beercan at 180mm F5.0 1/2000s ISO200

a900 50mm f1.4 iso1600 1/400s

psp_BOY, love both your D3 + 50mm F1.4 shots!

'or 1=1 --, I can't get it to match the picture either...



Minolta 24-105mm F3.5-4.5 at 24mm F3.5 on a900

This post has been edited by albnok: Nov 4 2008, 01:45 AM

psp_BOY: Sweeet!

ramblie: It's slightly overexposed.



Minolta 24-105mm F3.5-4.5 at 24mm F3.5 on a900. Vignetting is au naturalle, which can be such a nice surprise!

xandman: No PP but I used Daylight WB... that brings out greens everytime!

ramblie: In Photoshop, use the Text tool and type your watermark over it. Then click on Layers and adjust the opacity to somewhere between 5-20%.

psp_BOY: It travels wherever I go (the LRT shot obviously, and the plant was shot just outside my office. No car so I end up walking a lot.)

I feel bad posting without a picture in this thread, so here's another:


Sony Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 135mm F1.8 ZA at 135mm F1.8 on a900. Not my lens. I wish it was.

xandman: No problem. Zeiss represent, above!

This post has been edited by albnok: Nov 5 2008, 04:55 PM

Wah damn shy la I am totally n00b at RAW. (I use JPG) Is there a thread to RAW processing here?

As for vignetting, how do you obtain vignetting out of the lens without PP? I shoot wide open all the time to try to get the vignetting, but I only get it sometimes and I don't know how to replicate it.


Minolta 50mm F1.4 at F1.4 on a900. I didn't set up this shot, I found it while walking past a car park. Ouch to the flower buyer!

psp_BOY: Ooo, Lightroom 2's brush tool sounds neat! I always had the impression that RAW processors were just a bunch of sliders. Scary, to me. I only really dodge and burn in Photoshop 7 LOL.

I think I'm seeing a pattern here... it could be that close-focusing brings out the vignetting. Gotta try tomorrow!

0168257061: Thanks!



Vivitar 24mm F2.0 DIY tilt-shift at 24mm F2.0 on a700, dodged, burned and sponged

ramblie: Your last one is nice! Love the greeens!



Minolta 70-210mm F4 beercan at 210mm F4 on the A700.

psp_BOY: Eeep, I take it that the Nikkor 50mm F1.4 doesn't take too well to busy backgrounds (my Minolta certainly doesn't, either.)

phatboss: Love the greens!

asfax: I love the bokeh! It's subtle, but very well done.


Minolta 70-210mm F4 beercan at F4 on the A700. Forgot the focal length.

Minolta 50mm F1.4 at F1.4 on A700

This is the famous Youtube sensation Kokokaina.

KTCY: LOVE the color!

livinzo: This was outside the new wing of 1 Utama. This is An Honest Mistake, a local emo band.

DecaPix: Nice one!

psp_BOY: Nice blues! 2000 Kelvin?



Minolta 50mm F1.4 at F2.8 on a700.

This was the Original version without circular aperture blades, so the heptagons start kicking in much earlier.

calvin_gsc, great shots and colors!

mitmivec: I think a picture with nothing in focus is legit. After all the title is bokeh-ness.

If anything, the thing that disturbs me more is distracting bokeh. If I shoot a detailed background that becomes 'flaky' instead of creamy, with double outlines, or brightlined borders, I'd probably shoot again to avoid such bokeh. There are quite a few shots here that have this (even from legendary lenses) but people don't mind, or they like it, so I don't say anything.

Anyway back to bokeh!



Industar 61 L/Z 50mm F2.8 at F8 with a700. The stars come in at F5.6-8.

Eh read the rules yo, one picture per post!

Aoshi_88: The second picture (which shouldn't be there) is a bit green. The first one also a bit out. One Touch WB for the win!

chuanchuan90: Superb LX-3 macro!



Minolta 50mm F1.4 at F1.4 on a700. Silent Scenery at No Black Tie!

This post has been edited by albnok: Nov 11 2008, 03:41 AM

roces96, nice greeeens!

epito, where's the out-of-focus area? It's not very bokeh-ful.

achew, love your background-turned-bokeh! I like that kind of bokeh the most.



50mm F1.4 at F1.4 on a700

achew: Love the ramp shot with the previously mislabelled EXIF! The operator one could use some stopping down to reduce the brightline bokeh effect.

tzywen: Nice shot from the 80-200mm!

Aoshi_88: I actually think that's better bokeh than quite a few of the pictures posted here. It's done pleasantly. If the points of light were in focus it wouldn't look as nice.



Minolta 70-210mm F4 beercan at 210mm F4 on a900.

Aoshi_88, here's one for you, from an Olympus full-frame camera which I had:


1/500s 420mm F11 on Olympus Zuiko 70-210mm F4.5-5.6 with 2x teleconverter (for sale in signature) on Olympus OM-2000 with Fujifilm Superia ASA400

Bokeh gets stippled and coarse with teleconverters.

This post has been edited by albnok: Dec 1 2008, 05:13 PM

SUPERB stuff Mirage2668!

kentkoh, love #2!


Tamron 200-400mm F5.6 on a700

amadeo: Whenever shooting greens, always use Daylight WB for nice punchy greens!

The camera probably knew it was in shade and over-represented the shade look.



Minolta 50mm F1.4 at F1.4, 1/160s ISO1600 on Sony A900