1/125 | f4 | 200mm | ISO5000

Some Colour in Kiel Grey Commutes


And thoughts on the 200 mm Pentax M lense.

How does the 200mm lense support cycling pictures? The compression is quite helpful but following a moving object I find rather difficult with that huge distance. That makes panning shots even more challenging. It is so easy to move the camera faster than the object is moving and so it happens. I though see a learning curve and see improving results so that I manage to get some okay shots with 1/60 now. Maybe 1/30 with a little more training.

Also spotting the objects in the distance is challenging. So I try to position myself on a spot that gives me good views on promissing cycling routes and then try to take pictures of all the cyclists. For training and to not miss a a cyclist that I would want to portrait. Shoot first, check then.

The lense also gives me chances to shot portraits with cyclists on the other side of the road. With 50 mm I am too far away for cyclists on the other side of the road, with the 200mm I am too close for cyclists on the same side of the road. Sometimes 200mm is even too close for cyclists on the other side of the road.

Would I buy it again? Yes. It makes me approach the shooting in other ways. Gives me chances to learn more about camera settings and consequences for the outcomes.
Would I want another lence? Yes, also that. Now I would love to have a zoom lense something 23-130mm so that I can adapt faster to the distance to moving objects. Cyclists just move to fast too adapt with my feed or change lenses. Fast aperture would be nice but also not necessary. The f4 of the Pentax are plenty for most situations I wind.


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#Cycling #SpecializedBikes #GravelBikes
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1/250 | f? | 200mm | ISO2000


Didn't think that road had such a nice flow. S-curve, some elevation. I wish it had less traffic and wider cylce lanes.


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#fujifilm #fujifilmxt3 #viltrox13mmf14 #building

1/500 | f8 | 200mm | ISO12800
Yesterday I wrote about how the 200mm lence gives me the option to limit my field of view in a positive way.

I saw this very beautiful Schindelhauer on the train to Preetz, a city some minutes outside Kiel. I usually find it very difficult to take pictures of bikes on trains. The light is difficult, background is usuallay difficult, possible angles are limited due to the narrow cabins. All together it is very difficult to take full bike portratis on trains. I keep trying but never realy come home with satisfying results. Even though I had tried focussing on detail shots before. Until now.
This time, I was forced to focus on details because there was no chance to find an angle that would enable me to get the full bike in the frame. At the same time the narrow angle reduces the amount of background information which helped a lot to focus on the detail I want to focus on and keep out distracting background info that is distracting.

PS: The person that I beleive was the owner was so nicely dressed that I would have loved to take portraits of him with his bike ... but a lack of time and little courage to go the way where stronger that day.

#Kiel #CompressionEffect #BikesOnTrains
#SchindelhauerBikes
#Fujifilm #FujifilmXT3 #PentaxM200f4SMC

The thing with the 200 mm lense is, that it narrows down my field of view by a lot. That limitation forces me to very new perspectives. I either focus way more on details or I have to move away quite often, to have a chance to get the scene into the picture. This changes the way I analyse my sourrounding, because I can either look at details within a 20 meters range or I am looking and scence and objects that are further in the distance. A bike withought rider would need to be 20 m away. Maybe more, otherwise there is no chance to fit it in the frame.

Also the proportions from objects in the back and in the foreground to the actual object in focus are very different to wider lenses. I imagine this picture taken with the 23mm lense: the car would take way occupy way more area, father and son would be way smaller in comparison and the boats in the back would be in the picture with a lot more of their detials without adding any more relevant information - hence they would bring distrection from the actual scene.

Technically one could have the same effect with a wider lense by croping in, as @rstub mentioned here: https://pixel.tchncs.de/p/rstub/931959487367050992 before. Appart from the los of effetive sensor area or say pixels it is also a difference in approach. A wider lense wouldn't offer that limitation in first place. And I would describe limitations as an offer... a feature, not a bug. At least for me as learner, not a pro, this helps me to make me aware of relevant settings and options that I tend to forget or not even recognise with a wider lense.

There is another feature (not a bug) to the 200mm. I take less pictures and with the manual focus I have a lot of missed focusses as well - even though my focussing is constantly improving, I still miss more than I manage to focus spot on. It forces me to take more time and evaluate in advance where, how and also wheather to bring myself into position for the shot. It is slowing me down in a very positve way.

#Kiel #Kiellinie #CompressionEffect
#Fujifilm #FujifilmXT3 #PentaxM200f4SMC

1/60 | f? | 200mm | ISO1250

On street electric German proof that batterie cars are market ready and small, long living utility vehicle that does work just fine with very little consumption... not sure what I like more. Bikes I like better, but I would enjoy having both in the frame.

PS: German Government run by the conservative right CDU and the junior socialist SPD eventually does socialists politics to save petrol sales.
Prof. @[email protected] with his thoughts (in German) on the none sence of these politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6KsORHax98

#Kiel #MercedesEQC #PiaggioApe

#FujifilmXT3 #PentaxM200f4SMC #Panning #MotionBlur

Speed and Graffiti
1/30 | f8 | 16mm | ISO80

The bike, the background, the sharpness. I donot feel that satisfaction with my fotos very often. That day another cyclist approached me because he was uncomfortable wit me, a stranger taking pictures of him. Especially with that 16 mm lence that needs me to be rather close. I wish my shots of him and his friends where as good so that I could have offered him a print. But all where too dark an blury because I failed with the panning speed.

welll ... if you happen to know the cyclist on the picture please let him know that I would very much love to share a print with him.

#TrekBikes #RoadBike #AeroBike
#Kiel #Veloroute10

#Fuji #Fujifilm #FujifilmXT3 #Fujinon16f2_8
#Panning
#DarkTable #Publer

All Black Knight Rider
1/30 | f8 | 23mm | ISO160

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#Cycling #Radverkehr #Fahrrad
#RitterBikes
#Kiel #Südfriedhof #Ringstraße
#KielCycleChic #Radschick

#FujifilmXT3 #Fujinon23f1_4 #Panning

1/30 | f8 | 23mm | ISO160
Gusti Leder in Action - never thought I'd see one outside the shops since these leather bike bags are heavier and less techy than the usual bike bags. Now I wonder how that bag would work it was styled without the red of bike frame, helmet and the other bag.

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#Cycling #Radverkehr #Fahrrad
#StevensBikes #Commuter #CommuterBike #GustiLeather #BikeBag #Leather #Leatherbag
#Kiel #Südfriedhof #Ringstraße
#KielCycleChic #Radschick

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1/30 | f8 | 23mm | ISO160
#KielCycleChic in Winter

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#Cycling #Radverkehr #Fahrrad #Commuter
#KielerManufakturBikes #KielerManufaktur
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#KielCycleChic #Radschick

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