Photograph and Camera talk
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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.
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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
Awesome shots! The 50/1.4 is a planar design afaik.
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lax- just go for the lens you want to shoot with and proof us wrong with out opinions…hahahha
No honestly,if you want to cop the 50mm and think ythats the right choice...do it!!!jaco- damn great shots right there!love the first one a lot! Seems like you're doing some great pics as well...but where they are in this thread?
we need more...Same goes for you Chris,holla and all the others shooting
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Well. nothing new from me at this point… Tired of my faulty film cameras and looking into digital options, I don't shoot at all at the moment.... All I can do is post older images...
But in general I don't want to post my whole back catalog, it's not that good anyway….... When I get a new cam, I'll add more around here...
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something about women & cigarettes always gets me
