manual focus photography

Ok, so imagine your windows-based laptop decides to break down.  Not savable,  reinstall windows does not solve it (still don’t know why) and you don’t feel like sp...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2014/04/review-of-lightzone.html

The 35-105mm was Nikon’s first variable aperture lens, but compared to the modern lenses it does not lose a lot of light. Rather than closing down to f/5.6 at the maximum zoom range, it closes...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2013/07/review-of-nikkor-35-105mm-f35-45.html

Vivitar was a lens re-seller, and the serial numbers are an indicator who actually manufactured the lens. There is some difference in optical quality and exterior per manufacturer. You can c...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2013/01/vivitar-135mm-f28-made-by-komine-review.html

Although very late, the blogpost about the rut of 2012 is finally here. This year, the weather did not wanted to cooperate. Most of the times, there were a lot of clouds meaning soft not-dramati...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2012/11/rut-2012.html

Macro photography can be pretty light consuming. You want to maximize depth of field, so you close your aperture to f/11, or even smaller. To get to greater magnifications you might use extensio...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2012/09/macro-photography-and-flash.html

As written in my previous article   there is a strong colourcast over your images when you use your blue/yellow polarizer. In the beginning, this filter can be hard to get good images of, your ...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2012/08/processing-images-from-blue-yellow.html

I like to go to the Amsterdamse Waterleidingsduinen, a nature reserve in the Netherlands were there are a lot of wild deer. Well wild, they are pretty approachable, you can make very good ...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2012/07/composing-for-wildlife.html

This filter is amazing, it already starts when you look through it the first time. If you have a clear sky, you are able to make it very blue, or turn the blue away and create a yellow sky. ...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2012/05/cokin-blue-yellow-polarizer.html

Why would you buy an manual focus lens within the range of your kit lens in the first place, and why on earth would you want to have one with an aperture that your kit lens is able to give y...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2012/03/nikkor-28mm-f35-pre-ai.html

I once wrote a blog entry about whether photography is art or not. The reason I wrote that, and why I keep up my blog, is to find out what I really think about it. when I write it down I tend t...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2012/03/lenses-with-defects-are-ok.html

Vivitar was a lens re-seller, and the serial numbers are an indicator who actually manufactured the lens. There is some difference in optical quality and exterior per manufacturer. You can c...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2012/03/vivitar-200mm-f56.html

I know, everyone always says that your auto white balance isn’t any good. And partly it’s true, it can be way off. And that’s also the beauty of it since I only recommend shooting in auto ...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2011/11/leave-your-white-balance-on-auto.html

WARNING: Vivitars, and especially this lens, are notorious for problems with the aperture. This lens is notorious for oil leaking on the blades. My lens is one of those lenses with oil le...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2011/11/vivitar-series-1-28-90mm-f28-35-review.html

First I wanted to take a normal photograph of a mushroom nearby, but the flies kept bugging me. Then this little shroom caught my attention because flies were constantly sitting on it. I was...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-thought-process-for-this-photograph.html

Glass vs. non-glass M42 adapters for Nikon There are a lot of good lenses out there which are sometimes even cheaper than the old Nikkor lenses I normally use. They all have the Pentax screwmo...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2011/09/using-m42-lenses-on-your-nikon-glass-vs.html

First of all, I did not come up with the entire idea myself, I watched this video http://www.youtube.com/user/DigitalRevCom#p/u/7/AgOTk4ApEYs where they use their computer screen as a backlight...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2011/08/scanning-film-on-budget.html

There are loads and loads of discussions on the internet about film vs digital. Both have their pros and cons. Of course digital is cheaper, and you get instant feedback, yet there are lots of p...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2011/07/psychological-advantage-of-shooting.html

As you can see I have some uploads in my stream containing ants. This species is pretty common in the Dutch forests, and they are known for their irritating bites. So how can you take photographs...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2011/05/photographing-ants-and-other-small.html

Inspiration We all have these moments when not a single photograph seems to turn out right. At these moments we lack inspiration, or we are just not happy with the way we shoot anymore. Or as Ch...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2011/04/inspiration.html

As a frequent viewer of my stream you’ve probably noticed that I have been doing a lot of macro photography lately. This is mainly caused because I’m out of landscape subjects. Everything ...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2011/03/macro-photography.html

Last Sunday I went to the Amsterdamse Waterleidingsduinen, this is a forest near the sea and a lot of roe live there. Really a lot, I can almost guarantee that if you walk in this forest for ...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2011/02/photographing-roe-with-manual-focus.html

To be honest I don’t know. I have been thinking about this because of a discussion I had recently about photography with another photographer. He insisted that I studied the work of some older ...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2011/01/is-photography-art.html

I recently ordered this flash, and I haven’t been able to give it a full review yet, but I will update the review in another article . The first thing I noticed when I got the package was that...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2011/01/first-impression-metz-36-af-5.html

No pictures in this post(about this particular story)  since there aren’t any made about this story. Well it’s about my batteries. I was charging them because when I took photographs of the ...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2011/01/keep-your-routine.html

The people who have been following my flickr probably have noticed that the last posts all showed the high water level in the Netherlands. Well that’s right, the water is pretty high, in...

http://manualfocusphotography.blogspot.com/2011/01/high-water-levels-in-netherlands.html