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Nice one, Jim. Sure looks very quiet on the street.

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Oct 08, 2009 at 06:49 PM

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kop.cppua wrote:
Nice one, Jim. Sure looks very quiet on the street.

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Thanks.
Was about 6:30 in the morning near a outside mall.So it was not a city main st.
One of the benefits of being a window washer with a camera

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Oct 08, 2009 at 08:12 PM

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p.107 #3 · "Admirable" blur samples

Beautiful image !

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5D, OM 50mm f1.4 @ 1.4

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Oct 09, 2009 at 12:47 AM

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As we don't have a lot of images taken with the venerable Canon 50/1.4 I throw in this one, taken at a shopping mall, 5D2, EF50/1.4 at f/2:

"Support starving eiders!"

Oct 09, 2009 at 12:59 AM

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p.107 #8 · "Admirable" blur samples

Cool shot! Where in La Jolla was it? I just moved here and haven't pulled my camera out of the bag yet :-(

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Oct 09, 2009 at 03:25 AM

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Daniel Heineck wrote:
Cool shot! Where in La Jolla was it? I just moved here and haven't pulled my camera out of the bag yet :-(

D

Hi, Daniel. Just outside UCSD, towards Gilman Drive. And some shots were also taken at La Jolla Cove.

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Oct 09, 2009 at 05:51 AM

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Here's one from Minolta MC Rokkor PF 58mm 1.4 WO taken yesterday at La Jolla.

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Oct 09, 2009 at 04:29 PM

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As we don't have a lot of images taken with the venerable Canon 50/1.4 I throw in this one, taken at a shopping mall, 5D2, EF50/1.4 at f/2:

Incredibly smooth bokeh there! Very Sigma-like.

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Some from today with the Nikkor 50/1.2 AI (7 aperture blades) at f/2 on D700:

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Oct 09, 2009 at 05:14 PM

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1Ds3, OM 50/1.2

Oct 09, 2009 at 06:06 PM

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Makten wrote:
Incredibly smooth bokeh there! Very Sigma-like.

Some lucky combination of light sources and distances I guess. It just shows the EF50/1.4 can work fine sometimes. I usually use the Sigma as I like the soft rendering it makes.

Your images... when I scrolled down the side I immediately thought "Makten". How do you get those colors? Do you just increase saturation or is there some selective work involved?

Oct 09, 2009 at 07:37 PM

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Some lucky combination of light sources and distances I guess. It just shows the EF50/1.4 can work fine sometimes. I usually use the Sigma as I like the soft rendering it makes.

Probably not just a "lucky combination", but rather the EF 50/1.4 being very good bokeh-wise at f/2. I've never seen any other lens than the Sigma being so smooth stopped down one stop, at any distance!

Your images... when I scrolled down the side I immediately thought "Makten". How do you get those colors? Do you just increase saturation or is there some selective work involved?

Thanks, that's a great compliment!

The first two are JPG:s out of the camera, only sharpened (locally) and resized. The third has gone through ACR, but the only vast change from the JPG is getting rid of some red fringing in the mans face.

Edit: The camera settings I use are quite rude. I've maxed out the saturation in the "vivid" mode, set contrast and sharpening to the next highest level.

It's great for websize when you downsample, but probably not too good for prints.

Oct 09, 2009 at 07:55 PM

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The EF50/1.4 isn't very good at f/2, it is just better than it is at f/1.4. But sometimes with the right relative distances between the subject and the background it works fine. The "best" bokeh I have seen at f/2 is from the Sigma btw - which I think I know you don't like. Then otoh I think you like the Samyang so I probably got something wrong there.

You shoot in-camera JPG?! Our workflows are the opposites then. I shoot raw only and like to treat my images individual. I like B&W and in-camera JPGs aren't the best starting point for those.

Recognizing someone's work is a sort of praise, yes, you're welcome.

Here is a B&W somebody commented as a typical Jonas image, but I'm not sure that means anything... I'm probably just the only one printing in B&W the guy knows about:

OK, not much blur in that one but better an image in the post than ten in the drawer, no? (BTW; anyone with an opinion on the image can compare it to the opinions given here.

Oct 10, 2009 at 12:01 AM

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Great capture. Have I not seen this or another frame from the same shoot in a magazine relatively recently? Bubbles in the other shot?

Jim

Oct 10, 2009 at 01:23 AM

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Jonas B wrote:
The EF50/1.4 isn't very good at f/2, it is just better than it is at f/1.4. But sometimes with the right relative distances between the subject and the background it works fine. The "best" bokeh I have seen at f/2 is from the Sigma btw - which I think I know you don't like. Then otoh I think you like the Samyang so I probably got something wrong there.

I do like the Sigma, but i found it to be a bit too smooth sometimes. That plus the weight and size made me sell it. The Samyang fits an other purpose, were I use it for shallow DOF at large distances, and then the smoothness is very welcome. Close up, it's also too smooth for my liking.

You shoot in-camera JPG?! Our workflows are the opposites then. I shoot raw only and like to treat my images individual. I like B&W and in-camera JPGs aren't the best starting point for those.

I don't have the patience for RAW workflow, but I shoot in RAW + JPG so that I can use the RAW if it's needed (which was the case with the last shot). The JPG:s are so much nicer than what I can get out of ACR. Using NX is out of the question because of the (lack of) user interface. Totally worthless in my opinion.

Oct 10, 2009 at 10:40 AM

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I couldn't manage to get the reds right. They were blown out, so either I'd have them oversaturated or washed out.

I've been struggling with similar "problem images" (usually bright colored flowers) as well.
Today I found an approach that seems to work well in Lightroom: decrease exposure and increase brightness (by a lot), and if necessary decrease blacks to zero.

This way I got the saturation of an initially extremely red-pinkish poppy under control while keeping a proper exposure and contrast (in the background also).

I think the explanation is that you decrease exposure so that your highlights are no longer blown out/oversaturated, and when you increase brightness, you move the mid-point of the contrast (gamma?) curve to the right, so that the highlights get less contrasty (on a more straight part of the curve).
Maybe someone has a better explanation; this is still rather abstract to me.
At least I know how to use it to my advantage.

Oct 10, 2009 at 04:20 PM

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3 more from the CV 125 from yesterday. Certainly nothing for the swirly fans.

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Oct 10, 2009 at 10:02 PM

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p.107 #20 · "Admirable" blur samples

Tulip tree with the sun behind it
Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 180 Olympia version.
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Oct 11, 2009 at 12:07 AM

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