Creative Edge wrote:
not your typical 58 1.4 shot, but little man wanted to be a boxer!!!!
I prefer using primes over zooms... Perfect focal length for studio shots..
Creative Edge wrote:
not your typical 58 1.4 shot, but little man wanted to be a boxer!!!!
I prefer using primes over zooms... Perfect focal length for studio shots..
I'm planning to use also the 58mm wide open for PJ style street/outside fashion shoots (walking, unposed model with the photographer walking alongside/ahead of her, loosely shooting pictures handheld, something like this http://www.pbase.com/paul_k/image/61045666 although that was shot long time ago, on film, with a handheld manual focus 300mm)
So to put the lens at the test I took (not very seriously) some photos on the beach of a bodyboarder (or something similar as he's standing upright) in action
Despite taking them with a DF (manual exposure, AutoISO, AF-C, CH fps mode), overcast conditions, and due to my sloppy shooting (as a consequence of which I had to crop about 50% of the original pictures, to correct an out of balance horizon, and get some kind of frame filling end picture) I think the results seem quite encouraging despite the according to some reviewers 'slow' AF of the lens (and DF as well for that matter)
Speaking of street... I did some street stuff while I was in Weimar on a business trip. Weimar (Germany) is the city where german poet Goethe spent most of his life, you can see his house in the background (center) of the B/W shot. His contemporary (some say adversary) Schiller also spent some time there, in the photo of the "running man" Goethe and Schiller are watching from the background, beautifully bokehfied by the 58G. Hope you like 'em!
That black and white image is really incredible for me. I hate to use the word "leica", but the depth and out of focus areas are perfect. Definitely has great character. It seems like that middle focus distance just makes this lens rock. Good work.
photoomaha wrote:
It seems like that middle focus distance just makes this lens rock. Good work.
Thanks a lot! It definitely has something special to its look my other lenses don't have.
BTW, where's 
