Some samples to show the shallow DOF/OOF quality from the 45/1.8 and 75/1.8 lenses ... and one from the 45/1.4 @f2 that I am reposting. I am pretty happy with the FF-like performance from these lenses.
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Correct it is the 'Royal Albert Bridge' yet locally known as the Border crossing . I aught probable to have been more precise as the road bridge built much later is known and named as the Tamar bridge. Just being lazy.
Duke a great image , love the light and sense of environment. The colour treatment works well.
I am fairly lazy in Photoshop and know I aught to try different processes. I have always wondered what smart layers were for and smart filters were and have been playing round with them. It is often hard to tell how it would have turned out using my normal, possibly simpler methods. I know now the basics of Smart filters, which i know will help to play with images, so a worthwhile hour or so.
Love the shot of the pink sailboat, but if you don't mind my saying so, I think the yellow buoy is a distraction. The sailboat and the lighthouse would make a very nice landscape/panoramic image IMHO.
I know what you mean Bobby. In fact the yellow buoy would work better if it was on the left, with the right side always taking a dominant roll.
Truth be known I was playing a lot with this image and the Raw was so over exposed I am surprised I got anything at all. Using the EF70-200 f4, @ f4 1/4000 with max compensation dialed in , which aught to have been more like 1/6000.
In the end I did get more into trying different processes in Cs6 with the result of not taking to much care about the overall image.
Not too sure if I like the image at all myself, probably not ,but I try to learn and thanks for the feedback.
juju1958 wrote:
Duke a great image , love the light and sense of environment. The colour treatment works well.
I am fairly lazy in Photoshop and know I aught to try different processes. I have always wondered what smart layers were for and smart filters were and have been playing round with them. It is often hard to tell how it would have turned out using my normal, possibly simpler methods. I know now the basics of Smart filters, which i know will help to play with images, so a worthwhile hour or so.
I don't think so ... as the yellow buoy is competing for attention and draws your eye away from the pink sailboat which is the main focus of interest. The pink sail boat really pops against a monochromatic background ... so you don't want any other object or color to compete and take away the viewer's attention on the pink sail boat. Less is more.
juju1958 wrote:
I know what you mean Bobby. In fact the yellow buoy would work better if it was on the left, with the right side always taking a dominant roll.
Truth be known I was playing a lot with this image and the Raw was so over exposed I am surprised I got anything at all. Using the EF70-200 f4, @ f4 1/4000 with max compensation dialed in , which aught to have been more like 1/6000.
In the end I did get more into trying different processes in Cs6 with the result of not taking to much care about the overall image.
Not too sure if I like the image at all myself, probably not ,but I try to learn and thanks for the feedback....Show more →
I actually like the buoy, as well as it's actual placement in the frame...it draws my eye into the frame from the buoy to the sailboat to the lighthouse, though I'd back off just slightly on the pink saturation. Not a lot, just a tiny bit.
. I aught probable to have been more precise as the road bridge built much later is known and named as the Tamar bridge. Just being lazy.
I like this one a