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p.1 #1 · TS-E 90mm Creative Uses


Show you TS-E 90mm creative pictures. Portraits, landscapes, people, street, flowers, etc.

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Oct 24, 2009 at 03:58 AM
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p.1 #2 · TS-E 90mm Creative Uses


How about product shots ?



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Oct 24, 2009 at 11:55 AM
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p.1 #3 · TS-E 90mm Creative Uses


I must say I'm quite interested in this lens as well. I think I got bitten by the TSE bug after getting the TSE17. As I understand it, the 90mm is the sharpest of all the older version of TSEs, is that correct?

Oct 24, 2009 at 01:12 PM
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p.1 #4 · TS-E 90mm Creative Uses


Yup, and the 45mm TS-E is not far behind though but the classic 24mm TS-E was a distant third.

Oct 24, 2009 at 01:14 PM
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p.1 #5 · TS-E 90mm Creative Uses


That's fine. On my crop camera the 17mm is more like a 28mm anyway so I don't think I'll be getting a TSE24. I do wonder if perhaps the 45mm would be a more useful focal length, that's why I'm interested in this thread.

Oct 24, 2009 at 01:45 PM
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p.1 #6 · TS-E 90mm Creative Uses


I forgot to mention that the minimum focusing distance of the 90mm is really short (I don't remember how short without looking at the lens at this point ) and as such, it can be used for semi-macro shots. Another feature I like about the 90mm TS-E.

I have used my TS-E lenses more for thier tilting ability to play with the depth-of-field like in both shots. Although I like stitched panoramic shots (then shifted, of course) from these lenses. The entire length of those two photographed lenses was in focus at medium aperture, which couldn't be obtained using a regular lens, even stopped all the way down.

Oct 24, 2009 at 02:03 PM
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p.1 #7 · TS-E 90mm Creative Uses


joshua, great shots! (and nice subjects too.) i see in the WATE shot you couldn't quite get the far edge of the front ring of the lens in full focus. assuming you were using horizontal axis tilt, was that the limit of the lens' tilt or did you choose the effect? if it was the limit of the lens, would greater subject-camera distance have helped?

Oct 24, 2009 at 02:13 PM
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Mike,
The left/far edge of the WATE was indeed just outside the DOF and yes, I used the horizontal axis tilt on that one. Since I took that shot quite sometime ago, I don't remember exactly how far tilting I did. I know I tried to minimize PP cropping and that was pretty much the distance I had to work with. Yes, a longer distance would have increased the DOF even to the left edge. I used a classic 5D for that shot and at that time I didn't have the luxury of using Liveview. Recently, I spent sometime wiith another TS-E lens using Liveview on a 5D Mark II and you can really evaluate exactly how the DOF will turn out to get the effect you want.

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Oct 24, 2009 at 02:29 PM
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p.1 #9 · TS-E 90mm Creative Uses


Do you have shots taken with the TSE90 besides product shots Joshua?

Oct 24, 2009 at 03:19 PM
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Yes, I do have some stitched landscape shots. However, since those shots have to be resized to websize only, they don't look impressive than either printed or viewed at full size. They don't look that different than just regular shots for the web, with other words. I also have some flower semi-macro shots but I have to find them first though.

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p.1 #11 · TS-E 90mm Creative Uses


I appreciate the reply, Joshua. I've been thinking just the same about how useful liveview would be for this kind of work with tilt-shift lenses, though I haven't been able to try it since my bodies don't have it. i sold my 5D looking to upgrade to a 1Ds Mk II, but it doesn't have live view maybe i should rethink that choice, hmm.

Oct 24, 2009 at 03:33 PM
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p.1 #12 · TS-E 90mm Creative Uses


...another product shot, tilted to place the focus plane to be parallel with the glass...

IMHO, the 90 is a really nice lens. Not the highest macro contrast in the world, and it requires stopping down when tilted to render a sharp plane of focus, but it can make images that are otherwise impossible.

It was my first TS-E, and opened up new ways of shooting that completely free you from the normal constraints of depth-of-field control and focus plane, that can become really addictive.

Oct 24, 2009 at 04:38 PM
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p.1 #13 · TS-E 90mm Creative Uses


Here is a flower shot using the tilt action to get the numerous center smaller stalks in focus resulting in pretty much blury rendition of the petals above, which are not the center of attention anyway. Actually, this is not a special shot but the desired effect could can only be done with a TS-E lens. With a regular lens you would have to tilt the entire camera/lens combo and you would have moved the setup up to center the flower to get a similar DOF but the petals would have covered much of the center area of the flower by that action.


Mike,
As far as Liveview concerned, I am afraid that only the newer cameras are better suitable for focusing, such as the 5D Mark II and 7D. In that respect, even the 1Ds Mark III is left behind. That Canon did not put in a high resolution LCD on its flagship camera, although it was readily available at that time, was beyond me. Trying to save a few bucks, I guess. Shame, shame, shame... .






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Oct 24, 2009 at 05:10 PM
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Wow. Is this a timely thread! I have been mulling getting the TSE-90 for watch photography. Right now I have to really push things to get decent DOF, shooting at f14 most of the time (now using my new 7D which I consider a huge improvement over the 50D). Current lens is the 60mm 2.8 macro although sometimes I shoot the 100mm macro.

Others have said I need TWO extension tubes to approach 1:1 macro with this lens. Is that your experience?

Here is an example of one of the shots with the 7D.



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Will this lens work for me?

Oct 24, 2009 at 05:14 PM
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p.1 #15 · TS-E 90mm Creative Uses


Jeff,
A TS-E will work just great for your type of photography. You don't have to stop down that much to minimize diffraction (although macro lenses can handle that quite nicely) but could effectively extend the DOF.

Oct 24, 2009 at 05:23 PM
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p.1 #16 · TS-E 90mm Creative Uses


Been eyeing the TS 90 also! I may sell my 100 macro and get this bad boy. Only time I use my macro is for ring shots at weddings . So if this can be used as a macro also its a no brainer for me since I will get more use out of it!

Oct 24, 2009 at 05:27 PM
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p.1 #17 · TS-E 90mm Creative Uses


Here's my latest with the 90tse



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Oct 24, 2009 at 05:31 PM
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p.1 #18 · TS-E 90mm Creative Uses


Great lighting Brent!! Two light setup, one keylight with some sort of warming filter and one rimlight? Just learning to reverse engineer a photo. I have no idea how you did the splash though.

Oct 24, 2009 at 05:37 PM
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p.1 #19 · TS-E 90mm Creative Uses


Brent,
That's one heck of an impressive shot! Wow!


I just looked up the specs of the 90mm TS-E lens. The closest focusing distance is 0.5m or 1.6 ft. The magnification ratio is 0.29. If you put two AA batteries one after the other, they almost fill the longest side of a FF camera. You have to use that in combination with an extension tube or tubes to increase that ratio. I am not quite sure how many tubes you would need to get to 1:1. A 25mm extension tube will almost give you the length of a single AA battery. Again, on FF. I hope this helps those of you that consider this lens for semi-macro purposes.

Oct 24, 2009 at 05:54 PM
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p.1 #20 · TS-E 90mm Creative Uses


Joshua, Brent, Jeff, David - great contributions to a great thread. you guys are big-time inspiring.

Oct 24, 2009 at 06:02 PM
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