Landscapes

[Vandenberg]

@antonio, indeed bin to Germany Eiffel region
bin to the Nuremberg ring to see some dtm action, and some places up there
@katy, thank you for your sweet comment, and i didn post anything for a few weeks or so
but most of the time I was here, in my home town

[Katy Noelle]

@antonio, indeed bin to Germany Eiffel region
bin to the Nuremberg ring to see some dtm action, and some places up there
@katy, thank you for your sweet comment, and i didn post anything for a few weeks or so
but most of the time I was here, in my home town

Oh, I just saw this in another thread and like it very much! This is with the 50mm 1.4? Now, lens lust....where does it end? However, I really do start to know my own mind with photography, at this point (at least where I'm at, now), and am thinking that this is what I would like, next. I understand the possibilities of it for low light, landscape and....food photography. Although, 1.4 sounds wicked thin! Bokeh!

[Vandenberg]

bokeh is great, and 1.4 is only thin if you use it up close to an object
very useful for low-light indoor photography, so a must have lens
[quote tdp]Ask a bunch of photographers what their favorite lens is - and you will likely hear the Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM Lens mentioned. It is sharp, small, light, inexpensive and with an f1.4 aperture, fast.
The Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM Lens finds a home with many photographers - from pro to casual - for several reasons.

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/R...ns-Review.aspx

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/R...ample-Pictures

[Katy Noelle]

bokeh is great, and 1.4 is only thin if you use it up close to an object
very useful for low-light indoor photography, so a must have lens

Exactly! You're confirming what I thought. For food photography, what I've noticed is that, even if it's up close, a lot of times, they just open it up wide and let it all be a washy bokeh. Also, with the food, I need to have just a slightly wider frame. I'm usually indoors and am just starting to run into the problem that I can't back up close enough and get the right angle. I read the reviews for this lens when I bought the 60mm 2.8 (which I LOVE, love, love, love) and thought that I would get the 60 first. I love the 60 outdoors in the garden and field - it's perfect!

[Vandenberg]

is the 60 2.8 a macro lens? (1:1)
anyway, 60 is a nice lens ad well, gives great sharpness
anyway, something i shot this week (50mm offcours)
sun was just going under and the Sun lights up the field pretty clear

[stevewe88]

[Antonio Correia]

is the 60 2.8 a macro lens? (1:1)
anyway, 60 is a nice lens ad well, gives great sharpness
anyway, something i shot this week (50mm offcours)
sun was just going under and the Sun lights up the field pretty clear

All this question about the shallow DOF gave me one idea: why not recover my old 1974 Nikon lens with a ring adaptor and use it on the 5D ?
It looks like a pretty good idea. I just have to get the adaptor and fine tune the focus as it will be manual all the time.
I will take more time to get a picture because not only the focusing will be manual but also the exposure. So what ?

Here a 2005 poor picture of the 85mm f/1.8 Nikon lens. I have already looked through it and there is almost no fungus inside... Fine !

[Vandenberg]

its a great idea Antonio, but get a ring with a focus confirmation chip on it, makes life a lot easier
and for close up bokeh, just lean forwards or backwards to get a good sharp picture
i hope its a 8-blade aperture to get a a good foreground/background blur quality

adapter ring with chip
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/roxsen-converter.htm

[Katy Noelle]

Almost no fungus inside of it?! Fun experiments!

[Katy Noelle]

is the 60 2.8 a macro lens? (1:1)
anyway, 60 is a nice lens ad well, gives great sharpness
anyway, something i shot this week (50mm offcours)
sun was just going under and the Sun lights up the field pretty clear

Vandenberg!!! Gasp!!!!! Is this with a sliver of dof, then, like 1.4? This photography thing is all about light, eh?

The 60mm is 1:1 macro. It's very pleasant and well thought through - smooth, quiet and I know that it's beautiful glass. Also, there's something about the barrell construction that improves bokeh (I read about it at Amazon and DPreview.)

Steve, I don't mean to be "ignoring" you. I noticed and appreciated your landscape - the brilliant use of triangles (Peter Ryan would be so proud!) - what a lovely scene. I'll just leave the rest to someone who knows more about what they're talking about!

[Antonio Correia]

Almost no fungus inside of it?! Fun experiments!

Yes Katy. As lenses "grow old" they can get fungus inside which deteriorates it's optical qualities.
To see them (the fungus, not the optical quality ) I reversed the lens and pointed at a bright area. Not the Sun because it could be dangerous.

My son uses the 50mm f/1.4 on his 7D which he sent to clean in Lisbon and it is fairly good now. However, some fungus persist. A few of them. Not perceptible in an image.

Remember that these lenses were used in Vietnam war what gave them the legendary quality. Nikon

[Antonio Correia]

Thank you Steve for posting here
Don't you think Steve that the image looks like lacking a bit of brightness ? Perhaps it is just my un-calibrated monitor...
However, it is clear that you may have over sharpened a bit which we can see in the horizon. Nothing you will not be able to correct in a second or two
In spite of the horizon being almost in the middle of the image, it looks great as the grass in the foreground contributes to the balance of the scene as well as the orange one.
Thank you for posting here Again

[stevewe88]

Thank you Steve for posting here
Don't you think Steve that the image looks like lacking a bit of brightness ? Perhaps it is just my un-calibrated monitor...
However, it is clear that you may have over sharpened a bit which we can see in the horizon. Nothing you will not be able to correct in a second or two
In spite of the horizon being almost in the middle of the image, it looks great as the grass in the foreground contributes to the balance of the scene as well as the orange one.
Thank you for posting here Again

Thanks Antonio.
The picture was taken about 20 minutes too late I think as the sun had gone down too far and the light was very flat. I tried to liven it up in photoshop a bit because I quite like the composition.
I think the light line on the horizon is poor layer masking rather than over sharpening to be honest. I will have to re do that I think

I was at the location to photograph this-


...but the light faded very quickly so I will have to go back anyway and try in better light.

Thanks Katy for your comments too.

[Katy Noelle]

Yes Katy. As lenses "grow old" they can get fungus inside which deteriorates it's optical qualities.
To see them (the fungus, not the optical quality ) I reversed the lens and pointed at a bright area. Not the Sun because it could be dangerous.

My son uses the 50mm f/1.4 on his 7D which he sent to clean in Lisbon and it is fairly good now. However, some fungus persist. A few of them. Not perceptible in an image.

Remember that these lenses were used in Vietnam war what gave them the legendary quality. Nikon

Interesting, Antonio! Thanks!

[Vandenberg]

you better run dude
that's what i did

[Antonio Correia]

...

It's nice Steve. I see no reason to re-shoot
Is this an old water duct or just a road/bridge. I am not so sure if I see it's correct scale that is why I hesitate between the two options.

[Antonio Correia]

you better run dude
that's what i did

Thank you Vandenberg
The animal is very sharp indeed ! So sharp, so sharp that it looks like you have done it with a copy and paste

[Vandenberg]

70~200 2.8L glass is razor sharp, valt me we erg tegen van je antonio
will send the sooc version in ur mail box

[Antonio Correia]

70~200L glass is razor sharp, valt me we erg tegen van je antonio
sooc version

http://www.dt13.nl/sig/024.ZIP

I only said it looked like. Nothing else. Não te aborreças homem. A Vida são dois dias. Mas olha que até parece ...

[stevewe88]

It's nice Steve. I see no reason to re-shoot
Is this an old water duct or just a road/bridge. I am not so sure if I see it's correct scale that is why I hesitate between the two options.

Thanks Antonio.
It is a railway bridge and it stands about 30M to 40M high so it is very large. I will post another with a train on it that shows the scale a bit better.