As I was trying the lens out, on a few subjects, a wild King Parrot landed in our franginpani tree out the back. He sometimes visits, mostly in spring, with his mate and we can sometimes feed them some seed if we are careful. I haven't seen the female for a few days, but we are speculating that she is possibly on the nest as it spring here in Austalia. The male, and female for that matter, have both been very keen to get food, so we are thinking that they are feeding young and are thus a little more bold and not so concerned with us. I took a tray of seed out and put it down in the usual spot, but he flew into the house and landed on my grandsons toy kitchen cooktop! What an opportunity to try out the lens! After I took a few shots, I had to then get the tray of seed and get him to jump on it and then very carefully take him outside whilst on the tray feeding! I did it this way as if we tried to shoo him out, he may have flown into a window and that would have been disasterous.
Anyway, I am really chuffed at being able to interact with these beautiful birds.
Z7II + 50 f1.2S, 1/320sec, f2, ISO640. Cropped a little
JadedWriter wrote:
The 50 1.2 has a look that works so well for Street Photography:
Great shots. just curious, at 50mm you should be pretty close to people, no one of those "models" got upset? I could perfectly picture the young couple embracing might have take offense for invading their personal space or their intimate moment even if in the public space.
The only person that got annoyed was the woman that was visibly annoyed. The other times I was either out of sight, camouflaged a bit by other people or I got the shot and then walked away. Though I think if you check my Flickr and go to the series of the woman on the bike she stared me down. Danrdz10103 wrote:
Great shots. just curious, at 50mm you should be pretty close to people, no one of those "models" got upset? I could perfectly picture the young couple embracing might have take offense for invading their personal space or their intimate moment even if in the public space.
JadedWriter wrote:
The only person that got annoyed was the woman that was visibly annoyed. The other times I was either out of sight, camouflaged a bit by other people or I got the shot and then walked away. Though I think if you check my Flickr and go to the series of the woman on the bike she stared me down.
Thanks for the explanation. I was scrolling at the Flickr and there are some funny shots like the lady eating icecream. I wish I had the confidence; just a few days ago I decided to practice my "sport photography" at a local park, some guys were playing tag football... I took a few shots but then one of them looked at me weird, so I went away. Maybe next time I would ask for permission first --it was with my 200-500 so I was far away anyway.
On your shots, well you might want to balance the gender gap (I see about 70 percent female subjects); that might give you more camoflouage when a lady notices you are taking photos... of course, no judgement is this is a way you use to meet girls ... (is that an extendible telephoto or are you happy to see me? ).
I'll photograph a guy if I see an interesting shot there, just really depends, with women it's mostly a colors, expression thing. I don't talk to most of the people I photograph either. Danrdz10103 wrote:
Thanks for the explanation. I was scrolling at the Flickr and there are some funny shots like the lady eating icecream. I wish I had the confidence; just a few days ago I decided to practice my "sport photography" at a local park, some guys were playing tag football... I took a few shots but then one of them looked at me weird, so I went away. Maybe next time I would ask for permission first --it was with my 200-500 so I was far away anyway.
On your shots, well you might want to balance the gender gap (I see about 70 percent female subjects); that might give you more camoflouage when a lady notices you are taking photos... of course, no judgement is this is a way you use to meet girls ... (is that an extendible telephoto or are you happy to see me? )....Show more →
Being in lockdown, it is difficult to get out to take some "street" photos with the 50 f1.2S which it is great for. So, seeing as it is spring and my wife's flowers have never looked better, I decided to take a shot of her Hippeastrums or Amaryllis. 26 photos stacked at f4.
With most lenses I'm fine with using Wide Area (L) with face/eye detect, with the 50 1.2 I'm basically using dynamic AF and using the joystick. It seems to be the most reliable way to get a shot in focus. I think Wide Area (L) does so many micro adjustments and the DOF is so narrow that it's never really sure what to be on so it's always missing so I don't use it. Ludvig83 wrote:
Would you be willing to share which AF mode you're using? I get the feeling it's not wide area eye AF.
