Had some fun experimenting on Saturday at sunrise, this is a 2 frame exposure blend, 1 for the sky & one for the foreground. The sky was a 5-minute exposure & the foreground a 7-minute exposure, with a 10-stop ND filter. ISO was set at 50 & aperture at f/11 for maximum dof. Lens of choice, the Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f/1.0 Aspherical MC Lens. It’s virtually impossible to get the sky & foreground exposure correct in camera with just 1 frame.
I’ve been playing around with this lens for over a month, mostly for ICM but have been trying to use it for portraiture & now seascapes. I’m coming to realize how much character this lens has, the sharpness of the subject with the contrast of the shadow & highlighted area & of course, the beautiful bokeh. When you put all that together & nail focus, the images are freakin’ amazing!!! The frustrating part about the Voigtlander is trying to nail tack sharp focus at f/2 is so hard with portraiture!
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Hawaiian style sunrise in Kahala.