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 p.1 #3 · Post your best ts-e shots. | |
I've just had the 45 TS-E a week, so these are my first shots that aren't totally experiments--there are no 'bests' that I'd like to claim as such LOL. I rented the 24 TS-E for 2 weeks, learned how to use a TS as opposed to just understanding from theory, determined that it was wider than I wanted with FF, explored buying a used 45 and found not that much difference in price between new and used, so ordered the 45 from B & H.
My interest in the lens is for use 2 ways--this is one---shift/rise and fall for flatstitched panos. This was my first attempt and it was handheld (not something I'll try often, but its possible). It was a very cloudy, overcast day, late afternoon with sun touching the tops of the vines--sort of a boring image, but I decided to try the pano. I believe I shifted to extreme to the right--I wish I had taken notes, but didn't. I tilted just a bit to bring foreground into focus--first focusing far then adjusting as I tilted/focused, tilted/focused checking in the viewfinder--then steadying myself and shifting to left, center, right.
http://www.pbase.com/picnic/image/63184875/large.jpg
I did a number of single images too. Since the lens is still at default (tilt perpendicular to shift), I feel a bit of constraint in use. I plan to reorient it to parallel.
This is with a bit of rise (holding camera perpendicular to trellises, using rise), then focusing on near and swinging to the right to bring the line of trellised grapes into focus-near to far
http://www.pbase.com/picnic/image/63206993.jpg
One with low light, handheld, using rise to reduce convergence. Had the lens been set to parallel, I could also have tilted a bit to bring all into focus. As it was, I had to go to ISO1250, 1/30s which is my furthest limit handholding so I could stop down to at least f/11.
An old style 'arbor' from 1876 still in use today (used for summer 'meetings', homecomings, other services--at Center UMM in Mocksville, NC)
http://upload.pbase.com/image/63379309.jpg
My other interest is in selective focus
http://www.pbase.com/picnic/image/63184869.jpg
I can hardly call these my 'best' LOL--since I'm just starting to work with the lens, but its a beginning
Here were 2 from my first day just really learning what was possible (though I understood the theories--but at least had a step up since I had worked with the 24 TS-E for 2 weeks off and on)
I wanted to bring all the lilies into focus but didn't want everything in focus, fore to rear. I rotated the lens, set it at f/3.2, swung from fore lower left to upper right. I would have liked the whole fore lily in sharper focus (rather than about 3/4) and feel if I had stopped down a bit more (and adjusted swing just a tad more) I would have gotten the right rear lily more in focus but still had the upper left lily pads OOF. I'm still trying to understand the point where I can capture the area I want in focus but have some blurred--and how wide that wedge is with various apertures. However, if I had shot this with my 50 f/1.4 at f/3.2--I would have had one plane/one lily in focus--and certainly not what I was able to manage here. Practice and notes will improve this I would think.
http://www.pbase.com/picnic/image/63112022.jpg
I know you asked for the 'best', but thought I would show the beginning steps to working with a tilt shift---its a challenge, but I love 'process' so the slow contemplative use of this lens is great fun. I feel its 'usable' handheld, but would recommend the tripod. My anglefinder C is only useful in some situations and generally I can MF and adjust through the viewfinder. I use an Ee-d screen (grid) with a 5D.
I might add I like the lens very much as just a 45 prime, though given a choice of carrying the 45 with f/2.8 and the 50 with f/1.4 I would go with the faster lens, but carrying the 45 TS-E as one of a 'set' somedays (28 f/1.8, a 'nomal' and the 85 f/1.8), it gives me a bit of extra creative ability IMO.
Sorry I went a bit astray with the OP's thread.
Diane
Edited by picnic on Jul 13, 2006 at 01:48 AM GMT
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