Official Photography Thread

[RobinFinderson]

taken today, a picture from our herb garden... chives are in bloom:



Canon EOS 30D body
EF 50MM f/1.4 USM lens
F/2.0, 1/80 sec, ISO 100

Nice, SG. That is lovely.

The 50mm f/1.4 is my very favorite lens. Did you know that Canon has a [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Canon-50mm-Lens-Digital-Cameras/dp/B000I1YIDQ/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1274152476&sr =8-5"]Amazon.com: Canon EF 50mm f/1.2 L USM Lens for Canon Digital SLR Cameras: Electronics@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513NX9MPKXL.@@AMEPARAM@@513NX9MPKXL[/ame]? I would love it, but $1500 is too much.

[Katy Lied]

taken today, a picture from our herb garden... chives are in bloom:



Canon EOS 30D body
EF 50MM f/1.4 USM lens
F/2.0, 1/80 sec, ISO 100

tripod?

[RobinFinderson]

Thanks RF... here is a tighter crop, which is better IMHO:



$1500 is a bit much for the 1.2L. I originally had the $100 50mm f/1.8, but only recently (earlier this year) upgraded to the 50mm f/1.4 (~$350). I like the lens quite a lot. Do you have the 85mm f/1.8? It's quite capable as well... I bought it at the same time I purchased the 50mm f/1.4.

The next lens I want to get is the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM Macro Lens (Hi Helen!). I don't have a macro lens, but the reviews of the 100mm macro are nothing but positive. Father's day is coming up... should I upgrade my camera body or get the 100mm macro lens?

cheers.

That certainly is a nicer crop.

I've had my eye on that macro lens for some time now, but whenever I've thought I might take the plunge, I started to think that what I really want to take are the super-macro images, and I talk myself out of it because the setup for super-macro is pretty specialized and expensive... lens flash + 1-to-1 lens + 1.4xmultiplier tube + special tripod head = too much money for me.

I own the 50mm 1.4. It was my very first lens, and it is the lens that I recommend to all Canon newbs.

I buy more glass than camera (neither in a while). I'm currently shooting on a 5D (pre-HD video version), and I love it. Before that I had the 20D, which was an amazing camera (shoots more frame/sec than the 5D). I still have it, and try to get it into Little Robin's hands whenever I try to drag him out shooting.

[Katy Lied]

Speaking of crops, I think it would be fun to have a cropping / Photo manip contest. Everyone use the same photograph, and you can create anything you want using different crops, or digital enhancement. It would be great to see everyone's different take on the same subject.

[RobinFinderson]

Speaking of crops, I think it would be fun to have a cropping / Photo manip contest. Everyone use the same photograph, and you can create anything you want using different crops, or digital enhancement. It would be great to see everyone's different take on the same subject.

That sounds like fun. Where do you think we could get the photo(s)? It would be great if it was a RAW image (plus a lame JPEG for people not cool enough to handle RAW files).

[tooblue]

That sounds like fun. Where do you think we could get the photo(s)? It would be great if it was a RAW image (plus a lame JPEG for people not cool enough to handle RAW files).

You mean some Photoshop Tennis? Sure, I'll play a round.

[Katy Lied]

Great! who wants to select something? I'm envisioning a pastiche, which would give everyone max flexibility in individual interpretation.

It would be great if Mrs. FN Phat could play.

[Katy Lied]

Dymo Label Maker, circa 1950, back in the days when its users were primarily electricians and traffic engineers. I bought this at a yard sale from a retired city engineer in Santa Barbara. Aren't these stainless steel curves gorgeous? A true American Beauty.

[RobinFinderson]

I picked up some new glass today. LittleRobin is sick, and I'm home tending to him, so he got to be the subject of my first few experiments with Canon's 100mm 2.8 Macro. Everything here is shot hand-held using natural light. Naturally, the images look a lot better at full scale inside of LightRoom. I shot a variety of images, to explore both the portrait and macro potential of the lens:

[RobinFinderson]

It is a beautiful little piece of industrial design. The blackness obscures a lot of it, maybe making things a bit too abstract, but I like it as mystery.

[Scott R Nelson]

II shot a variety of images, to explore both the portrait and macro potential of the lens:

It might be fun to have a thread on photos taken with macro lenses.

Here's part of one I took the day after I got my Canon S5-IS, while fooling around with the SuperMacro setting. This is the microprinting on the back of the most recent $5 bill. The camera can focus on something that is actually touching the lens.



Yesterday I was changing the jetting in a carburetor on one of my motorcycles and had to grab my camera and take a supermacro photo of some of the jets to be sure that I put the right ones in it. I can't see stuff that small anymore, but my camera can.

[woot]

I love macro photography. The penny and nickel are quite striking. I've added that lens to my amazon wishlist so I'll remember it if I decide to get one later.

Yay for this thread!

Edit: Here's one from my first ever photo-taking walk last week:

[woot]

Yeah that's enormous. Sorry, I'll fix it.

Ok that's better.

[Katy Lied]

Woot, great shot. You picked just the correct shutter speed. Did you bracket at different speeds?

Robin: Fantastic. Those shots of your son are exactly the kinds of photos that appeal to me. Very very nice. Can you explain a little about what a macro lens brings you over, say a 50mm f1.8 or f1.4? How does it work?

[woot]

Woot, great shot. You picked just the correct shutter speed. Did you bracket at different speeds?

Robin: Fantastic. Those shots of your son are exactly the kinds of photos that appeal to me. Very very nice. Can you explain a little about what a macro lens brings you over, say a 50mm f1.8 or f1.4? How does it work?

I haven't tried to do any kind of bracketing stuff, although I read about it in my instruction manual!

I did take a bunch of photos of that fountain at different shutter speeds though. There are quite a few different spouts on that thing, so anything slower than about 1/1000 ended up pretty messy. I did get a couple that look pretty good at 1/15, but the framing was all wrong as at that point I was just seeing what the water would look like.

Here's another one from the same trip. I might have warmed it up a bit much, but I'm into the vibrant colors right now.