fotografur wrote: lukecookphoto wrote: chiron wrote: lukecookphoto wrote: 2ndviolinman wrote:
@lukecoookphoto:
The first picture is a TOTALLY cool picture, especially being owned by a calico cat, as I am.
Thank you!
chiron wrote:
These are all very beautiful. I love the compositions, the colors, and the post-processing. Just lovely.
Thanks very much! The last one has almost no post processing so I was very surprised by how well it turned out.
I like them all, but I especially like the first and the fourth. They have a sense of deep space and dark colors and variation rather than uniformity which makes them complex to look at. In the first picture especially, the sense of space is so cut up and varied that I kept thinking that I was looking at a collage. I had to make myself see that it was a single photograph. It really works.
One might be tempted to say... 3D pop
The results from this lens are so good that I am really second guessing whether I should go for the 35 GM, as f/1.4 won't blur the background significantly more than the f/2 and I could instead pick up the Sigma 65 f/2 or Zony 55 f/1.8 and keep the Sigma 35 all for the same price (roughly) as the GM... And those longer lenses will supply more DOF control than the 35 GM.
If you shoot close though the GM looks to be the better lens. I read the Sigma f2 doesn't get very sharp up close unless you stop it down a few clicks.
Just about every lens get sharper a couple stops down from wide open...just the nature of lens design.
The question to consider is if the 35 F2 is competently sharp enough wide open at F2 given real world use cases. The 35GM will undoubtedly be sharper at F2, but realistically most lenses releases these days are so competently sharp wide open that it isn't the first consideration anymore. i.e. the 85GM is not as sharp as the 135GM, but the superior rendering and easier to work with focal length take priority for me and I never feel the 85GM isn't sufficiently sharp.
I doubt anyone will ever say the 35 F2 is soft wide open. If you want test chart killing sharpness, get the 35GM. Looking at things comprehensively including the shooting experience....if you want a more compact option that renders well and is more that competent optically, then the 35i might be the better option and its cheaper to boot.
fotografur wrote: lukecookphoto wrote: chiron wrote: lukecookphoto wrote: 2ndviolinman wrote:
@lukecoookphoto:
The first picture is a TOTALLY cool picture, especially being owned by a calico cat, as I am.
Thank you!
chiron wrote:
These are all very beautiful. I love the compositions, the colors, and the post-processing. Just lovely.
Thanks very much! The last one has almost no post processing so I was very surprised by how well it turned out.
I like them all, but I especially like the first and the fourth. They have a sense of deep space and dark colors and variation rather than uniformity which makes them complex to look at. In the first picture especially, the sense of space is so cut up and varied that I kept thinking that I was looking at a collage. I had to make myself see that it was a single photograph. It really works.
One might be tempted to say... 3D pop
The results from this lens are so good that I am really second guessing whether I should go for the 35 GM, as f/1.4 won't blur the background significantly more than the f/2 and I could instead pick up the Sigma 65 f/2 or Zony 55 f/1.8 and keep the Sigma 35 all for the same price (roughly) as the GM... And those longer lenses will supply more DOF control than the 35 GM.
If you shoot close though the GM looks to be the better lens. I read the Sigma f2 doesn't get very sharp up close unless you stop it down a few clicks.
Just about every lens get sharper a couple stops down from wide open...just the nature of lens design.
The question to consider is if the 35 F2 is competently sharp enough wide open at F2 given real world use cases. The 35GM will undoubtedly be sharper at F2, but realistically most lenses releases these days are so competently sharp wide open that it isn't the first consideration anymore. i.e. the 85GM is not as sharp as the 135GM, but the superior rendering and easier to work with focal length take priority for me and I never feel the 85GM isn't sufficiently sharp.
I doubt anyone will ever say the 35 F2 is soft wide open. If you want test chart killing sharpness, get the 35GM. Looking at things comprehensively including the shooting experience....if you want a truly compact option that renders well and is more that competent optically, then the 35i might be the better option and its cheaper to boot.
