The guy behind quite distracting. And the composition not that good in my opinion. 35mm f/1.8?

bro... very noobie in photography and DSLR...only touch for 2weeks plus...hehe...

using d40 + 18-105mm lens only...with flash... not 35mm...that one coming soon...hehe...

Keep photographing and u can capture stunning photos. U can shoot ur daughter when she's playing. Baby's natural expression is the best

bro..
pm me how much u selling the D40 + the18-135mm lens...

tqvm

comelnya

35mm is very good for potrait. Use it to capture your baby girl!

The Boat


and the Longkang

Today run several tests with my Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8. Many ppl said this lens is very soft at the widest aperture. I decided to do a test myself to judge this statement.
Setup:
1.My setup is Nikon D60 with Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 with built in motor.
2.The camera is mounted on a tripod and the lens is set to manual focus to avoid any AF bias.
3.I trigger the shutter by using remote control to avoid any vibration which can cause softness.
4.In between each release, I wait for 5 seconds to wait the vibration of the camera body to settle off after I turn the dial to change the aperture.
5.I shoot 2 different objects to increase the accuracy of my test.
6.All images are shot in JPEG fine format Large size @50mm focal length

Hope can assist those who are interested in this lens

This post has been edited by kimurastanley: Jun 9 2009, 12:16 AM

Test #1
100% crop

f/2.8
f/3.2
f/3.5
f/4
f/4.5
f/5
f/5.6
f/6.3
f/7.1
f/8

This post has been edited by kimurastanley: Jun 9 2009, 12:06 PM

Test #2
100% crop
f/2.8
f/3.2
f/3.5
f/4
f/4.5
f/5
f/5.6
f/6.3
f/7.1
f/8


My conclusion: This lens if little bit soft at widest however cant be differentiated clearly by normal viewing. And I think at f/2.8, it's still very satisfying me. After stopping down, the image becomes sharper which sharpest at f/5.6. Although I think can't really differentiate between f/4.5 to f/5.6.

This post has been edited by kimurastanley: Jun 9 2009, 03:31 PM

Like the 2nd picture HDR!

Penang Hill

ahh...the latest two pics looks more like HDR....better effort...
btw...HDR pics looks fake to me ler...cannot tahan...

hehe....
not natural...more like a rendered pic from computer...

i think i like this image if you use smaller aperture.

For those who has PDA with infrared port, there's a way to use it as remote control to trigger shutter release as Nikon ML-L3. Those interested can PM me for details.

my friends who doesnt know HDR think it is drawing from computer
Just doing something different with my D60

Shutterdll, i like your HDR pics very much. I am a HDR fan too =P
Can share how did you do the HDR? Using photomatix pro?

yup using photomatix pro.
Single RAW file and I use Automate - Single File Conversion

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Added on June 10, 2009, 1:06 amHDR grandma



This post has been edited by shutterdll: Jun 10 2009, 01:06 AM

Truly like computer graphic

Thumbs up
if use RAW single image, need to convert it to JPEGs with different exposures only process in photomatix, or just use the original raw file? I dun have suitable RAW pics to test now...