Jonathan Brady Offline Upload & Sell: Off
|
I always take Maya outside for test shots when I first get a lens or camera. She's really great at just sitting there as long as I want her to and for the most part, she'll look right at me (unless the sun is blinding her) which allows me to put a focus box right on her eyeball and check for sharpness of whatever I'm testing. In this case, I was more interested in how the background would render between t/5.6-8 so I didn't try and force her to look directly at me as the sun was over my left shoulder.
I did my best to rotate the aperture ring and fire off a shot, as quickly as possible to try and maintain my (handheld) framing and get all the shots before Maya moved too far. This is a comparison of (roughly) the same image at t/5.6, 6.3, 7.1, and 8. I was going to go to 11 as well, but she shifted pretty significantly which would throw off the focus point.
These have been converted in LR with only my import preset (+10 vibrance, sharpening, a decrease in the color NR from the default of +25 to +15, and that's it - actually, the preset includes adding a slight vignette but I removed it before converting).
Here are the files for you to DL if you wish...
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0ZZcKepOp4gclpWdnAwR0l0RjA
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0ZZcKepOp4gYVVsNTVSaHZscG8
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0ZZcKepOp4gdzRnb1dELTQ1VUU
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0ZZcKepOp4gNnVSNThZaHVobHc
I'll be assisting at a wedding this weekend and I'm hoping I get a chance to use this. If I do, I'll share the images with y'all.
|