teh_rebel - #3 gets my vote.... What aperture setting were you at with those shots? I love the 50 MP, but really wanted to try the 50 1.4 so I'm curious to know what you were shooting at.
NM your pics still have the info attached, I downloaded and checked... Thanks nice picture set.
adam. thanks! yea as you'll see in the EXIF, I often shoot between F2-2.8 unless its landscapes then ill stop it down to F5.6-F8 .. not the sharpest lens wide open but stop it down a lil and it has great 'pop' :
charles.k: dont tell me that .. i dont want to regret me selling it! lol. i gotta use the 50/1.7 more and see how it performs. its sharper wide open but i havnet shot much with it stopped down yet.
Ajay C: vignetting was added in post
tonik23: it was all in lightroom. i like to shoot in "Cloudy" WB for the warm tones and then use the curves tool set to 'med contrast' and adjust the darks and shadows as necessary. also add a bit of fill light and little bit of black if needed. for that first pic, i change the color of shadow/highlights to give it that old look.
When a camera focuses, Jeffrey, it does so wide open. Then, when taking the shot, the lens is stopped down as need be. A lens exhibits focus shift if the focus shifts between wide open and stopped down. If the focus shift is enough to move the focus point outside the DOF, then the shot is OOF.
Hope this helps.
Philber, I noticed this past few days of photographing massive flower fields (none processed yet) that when I made a series of images, on tripod, and bracketed for focus, that the objects in the image would move a little from frame to frame, of various focus planes, making image blending pretty darn difficult. I don't believe that they were moving out of focus, but it was not lending itself to my plan! I would call it more like subject or object shift.
I am really starting to appreciate the ZE 100MP for portraits. Great lens and very sharp. For portraits, as suggested in Skumar25 link, there may have to be some PP to soften the image. I personally use, Imagenomic Portraiture, as I find it is very good, plugins in to CS4 64 bit, and can be adjusted easily.
Jeffrey wrote:
Philber, I noticed this past few days of photographing massive flower fields (none processed yet) that when I made a series of images, on tripod, and bracketed for focus, that the objects in the image would move a little from frame to frame, of various focus planes, making image blending pretty darn difficult. I don't believe that they were moving out of focus, but it was not lending itself to my plan! I would call it more like subject or object shift.
Sorry, Jeffrey, what you are experiencing does not seem to be focus shift AFAIK. I am interested to know what answer you find, which could help others.
