To Bubble Or Not To Bubble...

A little hint of color...

Shot with my manual Pentacon 50mm.

I was trying to get a nice contrast between the bubbly bokeh from this lens and the sharp spikes from a blackberry bush.

It didn't happen, unfortunately the bubbles were a bit shy in this particular occasion and had better things to do than pose for a noob photographer as myself...

_{Sony a7 + Pentacon 50 1.8 --- ISO 125 --- f/1.8 --- 1/4000 sec}

On the next one they finally decided to show up and cooperate a bit more, but no spiky bushes anywhere to enhance that texture contrast.

The best thing I could spot were these pointy leaves... We never manage to get it all, right?

This was one of the first shots I captured with this lens, right after snagging it from Ebay.

My experience with manual focus was pretty much close to zero (-3 to be exact), and all I was trying to do was to figure out how things work.

One of those happy random coincidences I guess. More of those please!

_{Sony a7 + Pentacon 50 1.8 --- ISO 250 --- f/1.8 --- 1/3200 sec}

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this is stunning optical effect you got here !

The second one is almost kaleidoscopic

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Nice work! Who needs a Leica Noctilux?! :)

No, no, I don't believe that your experience with manual focus was close to zero :D Just kidding! Great shot, well actually it's an amazing shot! What a happy random coincidence ;)