Hardcore wrote:
Kayak & Canoe night. Little guy had to pick some wild rice. Hoping to go out this week to harvest some.
Wow, these pictures are awesome, but the first one really is a winner. The look of determination, the colours, the way the background just melted away… Well done!
A few 105mm f/1.4e images from the Hawaii Polo Club.
All shot with a Nikon d810, wide open at 1.4 just because.
FYI: client wanted a little bite to the photos.
Most cropped.
Hardcore wrote:
Kayak & Canoe night. Little guy had to pick some wild rice. Hoping to go out this week to harvest some.
Very nice Corey!
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bernardl wrote:
A few from this weekend.
All shot with the D5.
Cheers,
Bernard
Fantastic rendering at night time! something different.
Joe Marquez wrote:
A few 105mm f/1.4e images from the Hawaii Polo Club.
Very nice Joe.. Love the "pasted", very 3D look of the 1st shot.
agelessphotog wrote:
Wow! Awesome photo, did you do anything in post for the sun flare / rays or was that just in the shot, either way it looks really cool.
Christ. Look at the photo of the lady in the hat. Is there no way to replicate the sharpness and bokeh without dropping $2k? If not, I may have to buy this thing.
A few 105mm f/1.4e images from the Hawaii Polo Club.
All shot with a Nikon d810, wide open at 1.4 just because.
FYI: client wanted a little bite to the photos.
Most cropped.
It's a big chunk of glass! Big and heavy, such that it feels unbalanced on my D810. I'll probably need to use a battery grip to balance it (somewhat). I don't want to think how heavy this would have been if made of metal and not plastic.
The colours are quite nice when the white balance is well set, but in artificial lighting the camera gets more confused than with my other lenses; I'll see how the pictures will look after fixing the colour balance in post-processing.
For me, used to cheaper lenses, the lens is surprisingly sharp wide open. It looks like it will need a small amount of adjustment based on the difference between PDAF and live-view, but even uncorrected, it is surprisingly sharp.
The serial number of my lens seems very low: 20000xx. Either they use separate serial number ranges in different regions, or I got the xx'th lens, which would be very surprising. I wonder what's the actual volume for this lens…
Can't wait for the weekend and the chance to play with it!
That is my brother and his family. Question though... 1.4 almost doesn't catch everyone there. You can tell a bit of a difference. Any tips for groups?
Etherton wrote:
That is my brother and his family. Question though... 1.4 almost doesn't catch everyone there. You can tell a bit of a difference. Any tips for groups?
you can pose groups so they're in line with the focal plane or you can stop down bit and gain a few inches in DOF,
Etherton wrote:
That is my brother and his family. Question though... 1.4 almost doesn't catch everyone there. You can tell a bit of a difference. Any tips for groups?
edit: in fact my nephew is slightly OOF :|
The kid is OOF. Definitely keep them on the same focal plane.
He should've been sitting a little farther away from the camera, on the same plane as the other three.
Also, the shot is a bit too dark for my taste. But then again, everyone has their own process so some might like it.
On a shot like that, the background is so distant and dark, stopping down to f/4 isn't going to greatly change the rendering. F4, 1/250th and iso 200 might've done the trick.
Driveitputtit wrote:
On a shot like that, the background is so distant and dark, stopping down to f/4 isn't going to greatly change the rendering. F4, 1/250th and iso 200 might've done the trick.
Correct. That background is so far away you likely wouldn't have noticed even much difference at 5.6 but the subjects would be in focus. Pull up your shadows as well.
