My new toy, critique

cymatty · 30 Dec 2006 at 20:35

Hello everybody fro christmas I recieved a Canon 50mm f1.8 here are my first few shots with it, feel free to abuse me to the hilt.

No adjustments in photoshop, just resized for the forum, feel free to alter them if you feel the need.

My friend took these two.

Logsi · 30 Dec 2006 at 21:10

I like the last one!

Reminds me of the Ipod nano advert but with a 360 controller!

Josh

Col_M · 31 Dec 2006 at 17:28

Not bad mate

To improve them some more you could try altering the white balance, you've got a pretty heavy colour cast there. If you shoot in RAW it's an easy a problem to fix, one of the advantages of RAW

King_Boru · 1 Jan 2007 at 12:05

The white balance is way off in all of them. Try sliding the temperature toward the colder end to tone it down a little.

King.

ChroniC · 1 Jan 2007 at 16:49

They all look out of focus to me.

^^Gord^^ · 1 Jan 2007 at 17:07

ChroniC said:
They all look out of focus to me.

They aren't out of focus they just have a very small DOF due to f1.8 and f2.2.

It's the first thing everyone does when they get a 50mm 1.8

cymatty · 1 Jan 2007 at 17:35

^^Gord^^ said:
It's the first thing everyone does when they get a 50mm 1.8

True.

So say I were to be taking pictures indoors, eg a pub or restaraunt what would be the best way to use this lens?

^^Gord^^ · 1 Jan 2007 at 17:47

It all depends what you were taking photos of. If you were taking pictures of faces in a portrait style then f1.8 / f2.2 would be fine (especially in low light).

King_Boru · 1 Jan 2007 at 20:07

^^Gord^^ said:
It all depends what you were taking photos of. If you were taking pictures of faces in a portrait style then f1.8 / f2.2 would be fine (especially in low light).

Only take them at f1.8 if your focusing is rock solid as the narrow DOF will be diffcult to work with with moving subjects.

Obviously just my opinion, better off usin f2.8.

King.

^^Gord^^ · 1 Jan 2007 at 20:14

I got bored with watching TV so decided to shoot a few pictures with the 50mm and various apertures (f1.8, 2.8, 4, 8, 16 and 22) in low light to show the different in DOF. These were all done on a tripod as the exposure times would be impossible to handhold so the last one I did with Tv set to 1/50s (using the old rule of thumb of one over the focal length) and had to go ISO 800 for f1.8. Any bigger aperture would be impossible without using a flash.

http://www.g0rd.com/gallery2/f/Aperture

No real point to this, just wanted to see the difference.

Irish_Tom · 2 Jan 2007 at 16:11

Thanks for the experiment Gord, quite interesting to see the theory put into practice like that. Just reaffirms that I do understand what should be going on hehe.

Panzer