Twok, I'm amazed at the shallow depth of field for only an F2.8 aperture and 18mm! I've shot longer focal lengths at F2.8 and don't get that much blur.
Also, at that wide angle, you must have to get really close to the woman standing in the train. I would get strange looks to say the least if I tried that... even the picture above. If I took out my camera and shot pics on a bus like that, I would probably get evil stares, and beaten to boot!
musclepics wrote:
Twok, I'm amazed at the shallow depth of field for only an F2.8 aperture and 18mm! I've shot longer focal lengths at F2.8 and don't get that much blur.
Also, at that wide angle, you must have to get really close to the woman standing in the train. I would get strange looks to say the least if I tried that... even the picture above. If I took out my camera and shot pics on a bus like that, I would probably get evil stares, and beaten to boot!
Are you shooting FX or film? The larger sensor inherently gives you shallower DoF when compared with crop sensors. That woman was so close her face was almost touching the front element. It is part of the challenge. A longer lens would have been more convienient, but I only had my 18/2.8D yesterday. Here's another one with shallowish DoF:
musclepics wrote:
I'm actually shooting 1.27x crop with a 1D3... so halfway between FF and a "Nikon crop" camera.
Awesome pics ! Your Flickr stuff is amazing, and once again, amazing blur and color.
Your skin tones are amazing, is that from JPG or Raw?
So, didn't that woman mind having your camera in her face?
Thanks for responding.
Thanks for the compliments! I exclusively shoot JPGs. My stabdard PPing is resize, border, USM.
I didn't stop to ask her if she minded.
These were taken with my Nikon L18 point and shoot 3 summers ago when I worked at the Kananaskis Country golf course (Alberta, Canada) for a summer. I wish I would have had my new D40x when i was there. Feel free to comment. Thanks.
Figured out how to reduce the size of my images. Certainly wasn't helping the quality of the scans at all :rolleyes
Now that I look at it, can anyone tell me why there seems to be an "insert image" button on the quick reply but not the full post reply window? Had to work out the syntax for the image tag by trial and error
