carstenw wrote:
Great pics! What is the story about the Jeep? I loved SE Utah when I was there, magical place.
The fun with Jeep was getting stuck in a river with a broken transfer case out on a rocky jeep trail miles from any civilization. Luckily we had cell phone connection on the top of near by hill... 4x4 tow trucks are not cheap!
smashing Diploneis. You got the exposures and colors just right. A feast for the eye to see and the places makes me envious and wish I was out camping again.
Great shots! Sorry I am too busy now to comment on each, Lieutenant, tommyx, Bob, Helena, GTus, Rodluvan, Smridevan, toweye, Reagan, Picture this, mike, mortyb, JIm, Martynas, MJ, Tri Tran, - Gorgeous works in the last two pages !!
Rodluvan: amazing portraits, probably hard to achieve with manual focus!
mortyb: very nice, nice color and sharpness
Diploneis: wow, just pain wow
Jochenb: lovely rabbit
Jim - I think your last two shots are too wide open. But maybe you just wanted lots of bokeh.
Martynas - great set. Dig the Jeep shot.
Bob - very nice first series.
Smridevan - like your two last shots.
Jochenb - that's a cool shot of the rabbit.
G-Tus - like it!
Edgecrusher - nice eye.
Rodluvan wrote:
There is no focus shift at 1.4, only shallow dof. Focus shift is a term too wildly used when people in fact mean "miss-focus" and is introduced (to various degree) once stopped down from max aperture.
The 1.4/85 has practically impeding focus shift around 5.6-2 in a set of very narrow incidents. I wouldn't worry about it, but keep on practicing.
at the close distances you are shooting it might not really be that much of a matter. At 3 m it seems to be 6,5 cm of shift between the center of focus between 1.4 and 5.6, according to this test:
So at 1.4 you are just handholding and focusing by eye? Or do you shoot walking people with tripod and liveview?
at 1.4 there isn't only shallow depth of field but also "focus uncertainty" due to the fact that the screen can't really resolve 2.8 as far as I read, probabely in this thread.
- do you prefocus and then burst-fire? Or do just keep adjusting and hit the button once when you think it is right? You seem to do tracking as well. Is that on single shots or on multiple exposures?
Just wonder about the details of you technique, since you seem to be so good at it.
need to place myself at a busy corner in town sometime and try this!
Wow...I've been away for a few weeks and the images in this thread seem to have gotten even better.
Rodluvan -- your street photos are exceptional.
twoeye -- nice bokeh.
bob -- great color.
picture this -- cool waterfall, all that's missing is some fairies and water nymphs.
mike -- I like that last forest shot.
mortyb -- beauty foliage shot.
martynas -- great Utah captures (I just got back from the Oregon desert).
MJWong -- really like your #3.
Jochenb -- very creative wabbit shot.
Edgecrusher -- stunning eye photo.
AbramG -- lovely 50P shot.
Is that a live rabbit? It looks a bit floppy and passive.
