Haha true, at 1/800s you can handheld even the 600mm? theoretically la.

1/800 -> 800mm lens?

This post has been edited by celciuz: Dec 6 2010, 06:58 AM

The awesomeness of cheapskate nifty fifty prime




DSC_2912 by edwin.ng692, on Flickr

^ bokehlicious but the color for 50mm always look washed out when shot wide open...

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Added on December 6, 2010, 8:26 amNext time we should go for a one-day shooting. Day to night.


This post has been edited by geekster129: Dec 6 2010, 08:26 AM

I shot 14 bit raw and converted it into jpeg using acdsee and the colour is totally different maybe some changes in colour profile.

This post has been edited by Riggo: Dec 6 2010, 08:30 AM

geekster for your day to night shooting day to make it more interesting and on level playing field only 50mm primes are allowed. all model. how does that sounds to you?

Wrong, not all 50mm are like that. But then again, can see the box shape of the bokeh on 50mm o_O. This is wide open? If wide open should be round right?

What color profile are you using? Use sRGB for internet. If you use AdobeRGB, color is going to look washed out.

Maybe for my case lar... This is what I have realized in most of my pics. So PP is the only workaround for the washed out color for my lens (I'm using my cheap 50mm f/1.8D anyways)?

This post has been edited by geekster129: Dec 6 2010, 09:22 AM

Hmm, I seldom use the 50mm f/1.8 wide open, usually about f/2.8. Image too soft to my liking. Just use it in Vivid color mode. Should be ok.

Alrighty then, will try to play around with that. Thanks.

Could be the way you compose your photo, is there light source behind the subject? Might be due to CA when lens is wide open and as you stop down the CA reduces thus more vivid color.

I know for example the 85mm f/1.4D versus the 85mm f/1.4G. The D has more washed out color, maybe one can call it 'natural color' like the Canon. But the new G comes with nanocoat and has much better CA control. Results? More vivid color.

I kinds like the dreamy hazy look of big aperture lenses shot wide open. Gives very good glowing skin tones and hides the imperfections in the skin.

The only thing I don't like is the polygonal bokeh look of the straight aperture on the older lenses. The 85/1.4, 105, 135 and 70-200 gives very nice and much better IMO rounded soft blur circles.

I know the 85 and 70200 has 9 rounded blades. Definitely round bokeh The 50mm 1.8D and 1.4D has 7 blades if not mistaken.

It is possible. But difficult. Events indoors where the subject moves? 1/30s and VR whatnot is not going to save you...

Haha, the girls at KLIMS don't move around if they know you're shooting them. Unless you are referring to those at the stage which turns.

stopped down to 2.8 for extreme sharpness and more dof so the bokeh is hexagonal shape , it will be rounded in shape when wide open but the dof is too shallow where the other eye and other parts would have been blurred.

geek, the colour is washed out due to the conversion of raw to jpeg not the lens.

Normally if I covert raw using CS5, I will increase back the saturation n contrast at least.

Some spams from KLIMS

DSC_2777 by Bliz®, on Flickr


DSC_2832 by Bliz®, on Flickr

This post has been edited by Bliz: Dec 6 2010, 12:07 PM

will try to use LR3 to convert the photo again

This was shot using 70-200Vr2 before I was tired and swapped over to 50mm Sigma