My 1 year old NX1 with 50-150 S captures Beauty and the Beast

My NX1 and 2 S lenses have their first birthday this coming weekend. The year went very fast but it's a great kit for photography and I've really enjoyed the ride. What that also means though is that the 1 Year Warranty will be ending. And I realized that with so much work on my 35 Years of 35mm Film project (between 600 and 700 hours so far - see link in my signature below), and finally setting up and publishing to my Blog, that I haven't had time lately for shooting with my NX1 (or visiting this forum). So I decided today to take my NX1 kit out and give it a workout, making sure all was in order before the warranty year ended. Nothing very special, just a lot of shots to be tossed when I was comfortable the camera was still in top notch shape. The day was successful and I still feel comfortable with the equipment.

But as it turns out, I didn't toss all the images. Two of them I really liked, enough that they made it to a new Gallery on my website. That Gallery is for the Teatown Lake Reservation, from which I never posted images before. Both images were taken at the long end of the 50-150mm S and when I saw them together, they reminded me of "Beauty" and "The Beast". Take a look in the Gallery and you will probably realize why. It looks like Teatown is going to get a lot of my NX1's attention as color comes back and Spring blooms over its hills and valleys and lakes.

Here's the Link: Teatown Lake Reservation

Note: I love how the NX1 and 50-150mm S were able to capture the textures and details in both subjects, and especially how it captured the dynamic range with both highlights and shadows in "Beauty".

Yes, the 50-150 is a great lens, so much so that cropping it trounces the 50-200 at 200 (which is actually a fairly good lens against other consumer zooms of its class).  This lens makes me want the 300 even more if it is anything like it.  More importantly though, excellent shots, I can't seem to find the beast though, and which one is the beauty?

First, thank you to all the visitors worldwide who clicked on the link to see the full images of Beauty and the Beast.

To give everyone else a hint, here are crops of the two subjects. I know a number of people who think the "Beast" is actually a beautiful subject, and I do too, but most do not. Here are the crops:

Here once again is a link to the new Gallery with the full images:

Teatown Lake Reservation

And note that this morning I added links below each image in the Gallery directing you to the Teatown website for anyone interested.

Ed

I'm with you, based on the results from the 2 original S lenses, I want the 300 f/2.8.

I think you may be one of the people who think the "Beast" is a beautiful animal. I do as well, as they are quite social, not usually afraid of humans and, as this one did, let me come very close to it with only the 50-150 lens. I posted crop images below as a "hint" to anyone who hasn't clicked on the link yet.

Ed