Yet another one of my boys

#1 is really cool!

Well done and agree #1 for me.

Thank you all!

superNoid wrote in post #15454815
Love the photos but it looks like you used a lot of gausian blur in both, I can see distinct lines in the photos where its in and out of focus. Not distracting because I like the processed look, but you didn't mention that when someone asked.

You did use blur in post right? If not, I'm curious how you got that effect on glass alone.

No blur in post whatsoever. It's the magic of pure great glass. Blur was due to DOF @ f2.

Beautiful

zyndurai wrote in post #15456175
Thank you all!

No blur in post whatsoever. It's the magic of pure great glass. Blur was due to DOF @ f2.

Great photos indeed, I love both equally. I was also almost convinced the shallow DOF in #1 was achieved using some kind of blur in PP. Clearly I have never seen a photo at 200mm/f2! Just had a quick check of the price of this lens... I think one can be forgiven for using Photoshop to imitate similar effect.
Last but not least, you have fantastic boys, congratulations! This is much harder to achieve in Photoshop