Polygala myrtifolia flower (photoimpressionism)

[ElenaH]

Photographed with old vintage lens of Meyer Optik Görlitz Domino 50/2, a Gauss-Type from 1958. 63-years old lens.
On Z7 with Adapter.

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[Gillholm]

Beautiful Elena!
Pin sharp isn't always what looks best.

 

[ElenaH]

Pin sharp isn't always what looks best

exactly!! Especially for plants and flower impressionistic and experimental photography! Thank you, @Gillholm !
As I see, according to your gear, you are also a MF-shooter ;-)

 

[Andrew Lamberson]

Fantastic!

 

[bleirer]

Very nice. Is some of that effect in the background from photoshop or is it all the lens?

 

[ElenaH]

@Andrew Lamberson , thank you!

 

[ElenaH]

thank you, @bleirer
No, it is NOT photoshop and it is NOT processed except some small curve corrections (contrast)
Sometimes I take part on contests and it is NOT allowed to do some manipulation with images. It must come from the camera like it is. There are a few photographers (in Europe) who are working with old lenses especially from Meyer Optik Görlitz (they have character!). Sometimes I compete with a friend of mine who is doing plant-photography to get most painterly looking photos, to achieve that photo looks like a painting without any processing, direct from the camera.
There are also a few famous (US) photographers who are using special technics to get impressionistic photos.
To name a few: Kathleen Clemons, Denise Ippolito, Charles Needle ..
If you google you will find them. They have presentations on B&H channel in YouTube as well.

 

[Bigmo]

Very nice.

 

[ElenaH]

thank you, @Bigmo

 

[Woody Meristem]

Very nice. Not the type of rendering seen very often, so it's refreshing -- plus the composition is excellent.

 

[ElenaH]

@Woody Meristem thank you very much, Woody!

 

[TomMills23]

Gorgeous! I've seen some really cool and interesting intentionally blurred shots (via subtle camera movement). Never seems to work for me when I try it! Beautiful image Elena!

 

[John Woodworth]

Absolutely fabulous! Creative enthusiasm.

 

[ElenaH]

thank you, @TomMills23 ! The image is not made with a camera movement but the lens is doing that rendering. It is interesting to integrate the lens imperfection or errors creatively.

 

[ElenaH]

thank you, @John Woodworth !

 

[KurtT]

Love the bokeh here as everyone else.

 

[bleirer]

There is more going on there in the eye of the artist than just putting on the lens. The out of focus areas start looking like patterns of shape, color, contrast. I'm wondering if you consciously shot for that diagonal pattern (the uplifting 'baroque diagonal' from bottom left to top right) or did it present itself in cropping and rotating in post?

 

[ElenaH]

thank you, @KurtT

 

[ElenaH]

I'm wondering if you consciously shot for that diagonal pattern

I always trying to see and shoot some geometrical shapes and diagonal is one of my favourites because the eye is "reading" the picture from left to right and bottom to top (at least for people who are reading from left to right). The old lenses have pronounced character or errors and if you know those errors you can incorporate them artistically in your pictures like for example, the bokeh-lines which look like brush strokes or special flare or bokeh-bubble or bokeh-donuts. It could be very exciting!

 

[bleirer]

I always trying to see and shoot some geometrical shapes and diagonal is one of my favourites because the eye is "reading" the picture from left to right and bottom to top (at least for people who are reading from left to right). The old lenses have pronounced character or errors and if you know those errors you can incorporate them artistically in your pictures like for example, the bokeh-lines which look like brush strokes or special flare or bokeh-bubble or bokeh-donuts. It could be very exciting!

I'm always trying to get better at 'seeing' in the field. So often some form or pattern emerges in post that I didn't see while shooting, and I wish I had moved a little left or right or such, had I only seen it while shooting.

 

[ElenaH]

I'm always trying to get better at 'seeing' in the field

the same for me!!

 

[Gongster]

That is a lovely photo, I'll bet you're glad you kept that old lens Elena!

 

[ElenaH]

That is a lovely photo, I'll bet you're glad you kept that old lens Elena!

thank you, @Gongster ! Actually I buy old lens if there is an opportunity or if I love lens.
I found some in the basement of my friend but they were not so old ;-) And I bought some. I like to work with old lenses which have a pronounced character. And it is also interesting to know their fetures and to use them creatively. I also have radioactive lens Takumar 35/2. Radiactive Thorium was used in the glass (not coated but inside the glass). Even Nikon had radiactive lenses. Radiactive elements impact the refractive index of the used glass.

 

[Tiago C]

Really nice photo and lens character

 

[ElenaH]

thank you, @Tiago Cardoso