Moon Festival San Francisco

[FrozenInTime]

Some photos from this weekend in China Town

The wide shots were the GXR with 21/4,5 and the long shots were the M9 with 50/0,95.

 

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[flip]

Very nice. Thanks!
From a purely geeky standpoint, I was intrigued by the rendering of the background elements in the last few shots. Is the edge character a Noct thing, an M0 thing, or some combination?

 

[raytoei@gmail.com]

very nice... this is the "Mid-Autumn Festival" celebrated by
chinese world-wide, eating "mooncakes" and sipping tea
while appreciating the moon. In some countries, this is
a public holiday.

 

[FrozenInTime]

I was intrigued by the rendering of the background elements in the last few shots. Is the edge character a Noct thing, an M0 thing, or some combination?

It's all down to the lens:
The first seven and the last four are with the Noctilux - all but the spinners with it at f/0.95.
The out of focus blur ( bokeh ) is good on this lens - some other lenses render out of focus text with really strong double lines.

 

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The bokeh I recognized as signature - it was the edge effect around people's heads that surprised me.

 

[kdemas]

Nice Donald! I totally forgot that it was going on yesterday. Bummer as I was shooting most of the day in SF!

Crowded as always?

KD

 

[FrozenInTime]

The bokeh I recognized as signature - it was the edge effect around people's heads that surprised me.

Here are a couple of increasing crops :

This was an extreme contrast situation : the girl was under the cover of a tent ; the men were outside against a whitewashed wall lit with extremely bright sunlight.
I'm sure I've seen similar effects in cinematography where defocusing against a white background results in the white eating into the silhouette.

In the orignal I had only applied purple and not green de-fringing - the crops have both on.

All sorts of aberrations going on - it is after all at f/0.95 😀

 

[FrozenInTime]

Nice Donald! I totally forgot that it was going on yesterday. Bummer as I was shooting most of the day in SF!

Crowded as always?

KD

Really really busy - we could put it on the RFF calendar for 2013.
Did you go to the Super Hero Street Fair instead ?

 

[kdemas]

I don't know what I was doing, didn't hit anything interesting. Trolled my usual areas.

 

[flip]

understood and thanks.

 

[nighstar]

love the atmosphere that was captured in these series of photos. 🙂 i also like the tilt-shift effect (in some photos more than others).

wish i coulda been there. 🙂

 

[porktaco]

that is a great illustration of nocti capabilities

 

[Bingley]

I like the photos, Donald, thanks for posting! It looks like you had perfect weather.