Photograph and Camera talk
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the last shot, not to get you into too technical a conversation since I only speak three languages (english, broken english, &edjit) . . . but how the hell did you do that?
really nice
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Thanks Monday! Well basically what I did was set my aperture halfway between low and high and pointed my lens towards the sun to only get a little of the sun in the photo but only enough to create that effect.
Then I went into photoshop and converted the image to black and white (using a 'special' method) this way I could then use the brus to fill in the certain areas I wanted the color to be in.
Edit: Here is the original photo actually so you can see what I changed.
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Thanks Rafa! I am really liking the second picture. So suttle and reminds me of a picture taken from a film camera.
Also I am thinking about not keeping the lens. I am starting to think I should have gone with a prime either 50L or 35L. If anyone could convince me otherwise please tell me. Then again I haven't really been able to use this lens to its full potential, but I also don't mind having to walk up to things to manually focus and I am thinking portrait photography is the way to go! I am going to be using my lens at 35mm the next couple of days.
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edit: I am going with my heart and sending the lens back in exchange for the 50 1.2. I konw I have a crop camera but I put tape and used it at 50mm, to be honest I will be fine with a 50.
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And a bonus.. a video!
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I hope so too Holla! But luckily I have a 30-day money back, so if it doesn't satisfy then I can always exchange it.
Jaco- yeah I am pretty sure… It doesn't help that I don't have a place near me where I can try out the lenses. But I didn't not like the 24-70, just that I don't think it was for me not to mention it was a brick, I just think I am looking for a portrait lens and yea I know you can get them a lot cheaper but It is a lot easier to do a straight up exchange for the 50L.
I have kept the focal length at 50mm and I think it is fine, I will hopefully be getting a FF body in the next year as well, but like I said if the lens just isn't right I still have another couple of weeks to exchange it.
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+1 for the Zeiss! Even if it confuses you more. Jacoavlu really knows his stuff… :o You did mention that you do not necessarily need AF and that would leave you with a lot of $$ and other options to play around with. Maybe even the 50/2 Macro from Zeiss; you do seem to shoot a lot of macro and f2 is good enough for some nice portrait stuff and plenty of bokeh too.
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this was shot wide open with a Zeiss 50/1.5 Sonnar on Tri-X 400 pushed to about 1250 developed in Diafine
I'm not sure if the Nikon mount Zeiss 50/1.4 is a Sonnar design or not
the Sonnar are notorious for a nice 3D effect (at least on film) and smooth bokeh
but also by a focus shift which can be annoying
especially when shooting film when you can't see instantly your resultsthis by contrast was a digital shot with a cheap plastic Nikon 50/1.8 on my cheap D40
I like both -
the 50L is superb
have you looked at the zeiss 50/1.4?
you could get that and have a lot of fun with it
it's manual focus, and built of metal
and still have $ for a wide like the 28/1.8 or sigma 30/1.4+1 for the Zeiss! Even if it confuses you more. Jacoavlu really knows his stuff… :o You did mention that you do not necessarily need AF and that would leave you with a lot of $$ and other options to play around with. Maybe even the 50/2 Macro from Zeiss; you do seem to shoot a lot of macro and f2 is good enough for some nice portrait stuff and plenty of bokeh too.
Actually I didn't even check it out, but I was thinking of a zeiss for a 35. I know you are trying to save me money, but I am going to try the 50 1.2L for now, if I don't like it I still have enough time to return it, and then I would try the wider 35 1.4L. Right now I don't want the money back due to several complications, my mom would get the money then and I don't want her to have it and honestly doing a straight up exchange is easiest for me.
I wouldn't mind it not having AF though, I find myself in manual focus a lot of the time especially for very close-up stuff that the lens tends to focus on the wrong things for. I have time to decide for my next lens though, I think it may be the 100 2.8, but I would have to look into that, I think I will be focusing on macro, city-life (for when I go into NYC), portrait and maybe some other type of photography.
great vid there jacob…
and yeah i think you should go for a 35mm instead of the 50...like jaco said...50mm could be "a bit of an odd length for general purpose/main shooter"...
35 is just perfekt for such things imo...
Thanks for the compliment Rafa ;D! I will eventually get a 35mm lens (don't know when), but that is after I finish paying off this lens. I know the 50 may be a bit odd but I can make it work. I know a few people who shoot with a 50 (different apertures) on a crop and they love it and it is their main lens. I mean worst comes to worse I don't have a wide enough shot and I have to think of something more creative. But I have been doing my research I went onto a couple of photography forums and saw pictures with the 50 on a 1.6x crop, but when I get it I will have to use it myself as it is the only way to tell if I like it.
