Laowa lens

[Fogey]

I took my new Laowa lens out in the back garden to give its supposed debut.  Bear in mind there was a perishing North wind blowing, so the sheltered back garden venue was very limited.

I had to revisit a lot of lessons learned back in the day, on my film SLR, with this totally manual lens and it took me a few minutes  to fathom out what was working on the camera, shutter speed, ISO, live view and the like.  However, I managed to get some shots that were well exposed as well as well focused, so I set myself a challenge to see how the lens behaved shooting into the sun.

This is a shot of a climbing Hydrangea flower from last year.  I wanted to show the skeleton of the petals backlit by the sun and still have an image of my garden as a background.  All in all, I'm quite pleased with it, though I suspect I have an awful lot to learn about the capabilities of this lens.

 

[Clicker]

Oooh. that's one of the reasons I really love this lense... It enables  you to tell a story and  give context to  the close up   photos  that we want to take ... it does take some  getting used to but I think it makes one  a bit more  discerning and disciplined about  composition , getting the subject matter in the right place and distance from the background ... WELL DONE Fogey .... I knew you would like this lense ...   

[Paul]

A lens that is unique - challenging but fun to use! I'm pleased Polly followed my lead in getting one, and now you too have the opportunity to have the same fun with it as we do (I must give mine another outing!)

Paul.

[Ryewolf]

Great shot Jeff, I think Cheryl also has a Laowa Lens, I have one, the 60mm 2:1 Macro, I've loaned it to Paul. For a small forum, we probably have have more of these lenses per member

[CMunzel]

Yes you've joined a small Laowa club, Fogey. I have a Laowa 60 mm that I love photographing small critters with. I thank Paul for introducing me to it.

I bought a second had Nikon 105mm macro leans last month but returned it after giving it a try out and finding it didn't add much to my current lens collection.