Bokeh – www.Sailpower.de

8. February 2018

Urban Night Lights

Testing some new techniques right now to generate better … or stronger bokeh effects. Have been looking for some elevated positions in Berlin to do this. These shots have been mainly done with some old Nikkor lenses but I also have the Sigma Art 1.4 series of lenses on my list to do more tests. So far happy with the...

Fotografie/Lens Tests

16. December 2017

Bokeh Inspiration

Winter is usual a time where we have lots of artificial light. A good time to look for ways to compose with bokeh. Some tests with the 28 f2.0 – taking the low perspective is usually rewarding after the rain.

Lens Tests/Night Photography

31. December 2014

* 2014 *

2014 was a good one … thanks to all who supported this site. In fact 2014 was the most successful year so far for sailpower.de. The concept seems to mature and this opens up new perspectives. Hopefully 2015 will follow that trend with new creativity. Plans so far are promising. Best wishes to all of You for 2015! Some...

Fotografie

14. November 2014

The Nikkor AFS 24-70 mm f2.8G – fast all-rounder

Standard zoom range at its best … – best bokeh: the Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8G . The Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f2.8G ED . The 24-70 wasnt on my priority purchase list for quite some time. Its focal range was just not too important for my type of regular shootings. But since I started doing circus and artistic performance events and also...

Lens Tests/Nikon/Review/Workflow

26. October 2012

Landlust – Herbstimpressionen

Zurück aus Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – herrliche Erntezeit, trotz etwas verspätetem goldenen Herbst hier mal einige Impressionen.

Goldener Herbst/Naturfotografie

30. May 2012

Lightroom 4.1 with Axial Color Aberration Correction

The new Lightroom 4-1 Version is out. It supports axial(longitudinal) color aberration correction. The purple/green fringes usually appear with all f1.4 lenses at strong contrast slightly behind and in front of the plane of focus. In the past only CaptureNX/ViewNX was able to correct this effect. Now it is included in Lightroom finally. For me this is the most important...

Fotografie/Workflow

20. November 2011

Lens Power for the Flower

The Nikon AF-S VR Micro Nikkor 105 mm f2.8G ED Since a while I was monitoring the macro lens market for a good new lens for macro flower work . So far the Micro Nikkor 60 mm AF-D f2.8 wasnt that bad at all for most of what I did. It was a compact sharp lens in the mm-range of...

Fotografie/Naturfotografie/Review

15. July 2011

Regatten in der Sommerpause

Tja, in der Hochsommerpause gibt es ja doch so einige Regatten, die sich recht gut etabliert haben. Der Georg-Hoffmann Erinnerungspreis des SCAhoi-Berlin gehört wohl zu diesen Regatten. Andere Veranstaltungen sind diesen Sommer bereits wegen zu geringer Teilnehmerzahlen ausgefallen (so die Korsare zum Posthorn und die Edelholz Regatta des VSaW). Im letzten Jahr war der Hoffmann-Preis ja eine Schwachwindveranstaltung, es wird...

Regatta Fotografie

26. March 2011

Bokeh with an old 50 mm Carl Zeiss Tessar

Looking for very cheap lenses is kind of a sport and if you look for these lenses in the second hand market of old M42 lenses then its usually easy to find something that works very well for a specific purpose. When looking for old lenses I am usually into testing lenses for their bokeh characteristics. Its much easier to...