PLAY January - Nikon 50mm f/1.4G: Country road... by vignouse

PLAY January - Nikon 50mm f/1.4G: Country road...

...lead me home, to the place where I belong! This is about one kilometre from home but I confess to a bit of artistic licence because home was in fact behind me as I captured this image ;-) I was interested to note that after my year of shooting exclusively with a 35mm (FF equivalent) lens, I've adapted quickly to the 50mm as I already know instinctively what I'm going to see through the viewfinder when I put the camera to my eye... perhaps I'm making progress!

This is for my PLAY project - you can read more about it in my profile - where I'll be using a different prime lens for each month of the year: in January it's the Nikon 50mm f/1.4G on a full-frame camera (the D610 today).

BoB!
Beautiful light and I love the softness of the foreground and trees! FAV!
January 6th, 2017  
Sympathetic treatment of our part of the world. It looks like the first line of a Harvest hymn! Beautifully mastered. It's evident how much you've missed processing....
January 6th, 2017  
Gorgeous-Love the feathery tree on the left.
January 6th, 2017  
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January 6th, 2017  
Love this. That sunlight is beautiful
January 6th, 2017  
Stunning shot! Love the misty feel.
January 6th, 2017  
Just love the choices here.. placement of the sun, feathery tree, subtle but beckoning road. Fave.
January 6th, 2017  
Beautiful light and softness!
January 6th, 2017  
So beautiful, wonderful capture
January 6th, 2017  
wonderful light
January 6th, 2017  
So beautiful
January 6th, 2017  
beautiful
January 6th, 2017  
Very soft and pretty. Love the colours
January 7th, 2017  
Seasons of mist immediately came to mind...beautifully mellow.
January 7th, 2017  
So beautiful
January 7th, 2017  
Sunning capture of silhouettes and sky color
January 7th, 2017  
Outstanding. That is all.
January 7th, 2017  
I like the softness of the whole picture - simply superb! fav
January 7th, 2017  
Mist at the end of the day is perfect for putting the day behind you and curling up in front of the fire. Most fabulous.
January 7th, 2017  
Love this fav
January 7th, 2017  
This is just gorgeous. Fav!
January 7th, 2017  
So pretty!
January 7th, 2017  
Stunning sunset!
January 7th, 2017  
just gorgeous
January 7th, 2017  
Gorgeous image.
January 7th, 2017  
Stunning - love the misty feel and those gorgeous silhouetted trees. gorgeous light and colour - love it
January 7th, 2017  
Lovely light. And composition, of course.
January 7th, 2017  
Beautiful light and softness, fav
January 7th, 2017  
After one year of seeing more or less only b&w's I'm blown away by your colour shots! Easy fav.
January 7th, 2017  
You even ,managed to sneak in a fence post :-)
January 7th, 2017  
@runner365 Thank you... and I wondered if anyone would notice that ;-))
January 7th, 2017  
Stunning :)
January 7th, 2017  
Brilliant. I love the soft light of the setting sun and of course so much better on black.
January 7th, 2017  
Magical. Fav
January 7th, 2017  
Truly lovely! Certain fav even though, like Mrs S yesterday, you have included the sun in the shot! I forgave her so I can forgive you too! Fav
January 7th, 2017  
@yrhenwr is there something uncouth about the sun in a picture?
January 7th, 2017  
@francoise He lives in North Wales... they're not used to the sun up there ;-). @yrhenwr
January 7th, 2017  
Lovely setting ....
January 7th, 2017  
Great, atmospheric, capture. Nicely done.
January 7th, 2017  
Stunning as always!
January 7th, 2017  
Lovely image, wonderfully captured!!
January 7th, 2017  
Beautiful!!
January 7th, 2017  
A superb photo Richard. I love the ambiance and composition is good.
January 7th, 2017  
Great comp and dreamy feeling. You make John Denver very proud!
January 8th, 2017  
Simply amazing and beautiful. The colors, the scenery, the processing - terrific all around.
January 8th, 2017  
Lovely light and mood
January 8th, 2017  
beautiful lighting composition softness ⭐ fav
January 8th, 2017  
@vignouse :-)
@francoise Its an old fashioned attitude Francoise. Full sun produces a 'hole' in the image.. that is a burnt out highlight. In a darkroom (chemical or digital) there is nothing you can do to get any detail in those. So when I was young it was a no-no! These days (at least looking through 365) it seems to have become acceptable. One way of overcoming the 'problem' is to screen the sun with another object, as Richard has done here. (Richard, do you think I have got this about right?)
January 8th, 2017  
@yrhenwr @francoise Yes David, I think you summed up the issues nicely. You can't eliminate the burnt out highlight as there just isn't enough dynamic range in any film or sensor to handle the extreme brigtness of the sun. Personally. I can live with it if it just limited to the sun's disc itself and I try to ensure that by underexposing a couple of stops and correcting the rest of the image in post.
January 9th, 2017  
Beautiful scene.
January 10th, 2017  
So in love with this moment, composition and light!!
January 11th, 2017  
Very nice
January 15th, 2017  
Gorgeous! Congrats on the TT.
January 15th, 2017  
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