Never realize I posted that many in the previous thread o.o

Btw, anyway to focus a 1.4 lens accurately a? Focus recompose using center point the focus always run away 1.

Only can use outer focus point le huh? ==

Ahh.. thanks, will try again the next time I shoot human, haha. Shooting human is so hard.

Will be going sabah next week, and will be camping in one of the islands for a night, hopefully will be able to get some nice landscape shots.

Post nia, might learn something from other sifu's cnc, maybe your requirement too high liao, good shot you also think not good, haha.

Not bad, I like your 3rd shot the most. You didn't use a tripod or put on something stable?

Btw are you staying in a condo? Is it possible to access the rooftops of those buildings? Might be a better vantage point

Aww no wonder it looks bit blurry, will look better in vertical as well I think. With the lines of the city leading into the mountains

Um, I've only got this lens recently and no time to shoot lately, busy preparing for exams and assignments and reports and yada yada

Btw, first impression... I hardly get anything in focus at 1.4 in close range, half body shot is ok, but close range, mostly soft.

Might be my focusing technique, cause I'm used to focus and recompose, and at closer range the focus point will change after recompose with such a big aperture I think, will try again by manually choosing my points the next time I use it wide open.

Some shots below of my cousin shot with it, all at f2.



I was using focus and recompose using the middle point, everytime I focus on the eye and refocuses the focus of the final image switch to other spot. So just a general idea of how the lens perform, sorry for my lousy focused photos, haha

This post has been edited by QiAnG: Apr 6 2014, 09:56 PM

Tried d, no back or front focus issues, just happens everytime I refocuses my shots.

Will try to use 3d tracking or just manually set my focus points the next time I shoot people again

Hmmmm, it's the first and only ultra wide i'd owned, don't think I can comment much on it, nor have I anything to compare it to.

But overall quite nice for the price la, center of the frame mostly sharp across all aperture at wider angles, corner quite sharp already once stopped down to f8 or f11.

The only thing I don't like about its color, not really sure how to put it, it's green is rather strange. AF-MF clutch is a bit annoying too.

You can see the pictures I took with it in my flickr, most of them hdr though

https://www.flickr.com/photos/qiang92/

Nothing compared to yours eh sifu haha

btw I added you on fb the other day, haven't accept yet My username's Jonathan Ku

Thanks, that's encouraging. Still needs lots of lots of improvement though, work hard shoot hard~

It's ok, understand your feeling, luckily I don't have that many photographers friends.

Nice shot bro Your flickr and blog's full of these wonderful shots

Will be in Sabah this weekend as well, spending a night in Kundasang, hopefully will be able to get some nice shots, weather please be nice, haha

Just got back from Sabah. Some shots from the trip.

DSC_8662_3_4 by QiAnG92, on Flickr



Need some cnc, feel like the way I shoot is almost the same , haha. Not much feel to it .

This post has been edited by QiAnG: Apr 18 2014, 11:05 PM

Haha, thanks bro.

Have to admit I really did bump up the green's saturation a bit too much, and in some pictures I keep hitting the vibrance also. Guess there's just this period in our life huh.

Will try to travel more and keep improving Hopefully will be able to take great pictures some day

Yup its all HDR except the night time long exposures.

Um.. im not really sure but the process is like this i think, from lightroom to photomatix to lightroom. raw > tiff > tiff. so you'll get to process the tiff file imported from photomatix back to lightroom after the pictures are merged.

Thanks for the CNC Glad you guys like em

So very TRUE

Awesome macro as always bro



BTW, I'm planning to grab a phottix octabox or something to try some portraits. Is there anything I need to get except the softbox? Flash stand/ bracket, and flash trigger/receiver?

Seems expensive

Going pro still long way, thinking of playing around only, been using only natural light

Quite hard to find people to hold eh I think, unless when I'm shooting their gf =.=''

Wondering if the the pop up flash on d7000 can trigger the flash in softbox or not.. should be possible if the distance not too far away huh.

Yea might be going umbrella instead of softbox

I'm from Miri eh, plus I don't have a model yet. haha. Or i go west malaysia we shoot together

Found 1 cheapo phottix softbox, might get that 1 to try 1st, and use on camera flash to trigger the flash. Still looking for a cheapo stand

I do mostly natural light too, just that saw those sunset strobe shots, looks interesting feels like trying

No need sexy or leng lui la, can learn can liao.

Where you guys staying anyway? I'm going to west malaysia on July. Looking for place to shoot landscape