Birch in moorland

Kendlmühlfilzen, Bavaria, Southern Germany

I visited this (restored) moor a few weeks ago. There are thousands of birches.

It wasn't easy to find a composition I liked. When already walking back to the car, I saw this spot.
I wanted to isolate one birch.

I used the 135 Plena wide open at f1.8. I found that even stopping down to 2.8 did not give me the background I wanted.
Here I only focused on the tree. I used a polarizing filter, that gave me much better colours in the leaves on the path.
LR to increase saturation of some colours a bit


I am getting a bit obsessed with the Plena
I almost always shoot it wide open.
Never had anything wider than 2.8 before.
It almost seems thatNikon used some black magic to make this lens, it's that good. But also dangerous as it  sometimes makes we want to use it when another lens really would be better.
Hopefully this here works.


Z8, tripod, 1.8/135 Plena, f1.8, ISO 64, 1/100, polarizing filter.