** A Picture I Took - 2009 **

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Camera: Nikon D50 | Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500) | Aperture: f/2.2 | Focal Length: 50mm | Exposure: +0.50 | ISO Speed: 200
 
psychoace said:
So what do you use your 50 f/1.8 for? I would think the 85mm would be used more for portraits right?
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Nothing much, it's a junk lens (at least my copy is). Tends to backfocus pretty constantly, so really the only thing I use it for is product shooting (like if I'm going to sell something online and I need a good picture of it). The AF can't be trusted outside of a controlled environment.

The 85 can be used for anything, as long as I'm far enough way ;)
 
JohnnyNapalm said:
Nothing much, it's a junk lens (at least my copy is). Tends to backfocus pretty constantly, so really the only thing I use it for is product shooting (like if I'm going to sell something online and I need a good picture of it). The AF can't be trusted outside of a controlled environment.

The 85 can be used for anything, as long as I'm far enough way ;)
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The AF I can agree on a little bit. The AF is slow as hell and can sometimes miss it's mark. When I did the motocross thing on the other page I didn't trust it at all so I just focused at one spot that I knew the rider would of been near and set to Manual focus and left the aperture at about f/6.7 and hoped for the best. Which was a terrible compromise because that ment the buildings in the background would be just as sharp as the rider. But to focus on a moving subject like that would of resulted in many out of focus shots if I was rocking a f/2 aperture. I don't know if I experienced back focus but typically I find anything that was shot in good light to be in focus unless I might of moved or the subject has. But the tree shot might show front focusing a little cause I swear I focused on that tree (I set the focus point on it) and it's slightly out of focus but some of the leaves that were closer were pretty sharp. I could of moved backward though while holding the shutter button but I'm not sure. Since I was at f/2.0 it's possible even slight movement could of pulled it out of that sweet spot. Anyway I still love it. For $100 it's a damn value if you aren't shooting for cash. I wish I had a day with my family outside cause all the portraits shots I have are inside with the only light source coming from 1 window. But I still like what this lens might be able to do if I could kick the shutter over 1/100

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Until I can invest in a off camera flash this is the best they are going to look indoors.
 
Bump your exposure compensation up, those are daaaaaaark.

And don't get me wrong, the thrifty fifty has its place, and can even take decent shots...I just don't trust it with mission critical events.

Here's a decent portrait with it taken in available light (on my old XTi):

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Oh I would have but it was just too dark and I would have much blurrier pictures. These kids love to move around and a 1/50 shutter speed is all I was getting (I actually had it at -1/3 on exposure comp to get it that quick). Also I don't like pushing my Rebel XT over ISO 200 cause it just gets to noisy for my liking so I just try to do my best until I absolutely have to move it up to that. I guess I can push it in lightroom but during the time I was shooting it was impossible.
 
psychoace said:
Also I don't like pushing my Rebel XT over ISO 200
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I hear ya. My XTi was crap at higher ISOs. I hate to say, but the old adage of "you get what you pay for" is so true in the camera arena. I accidentally shot half of an outdoor event (during the DAY, mind you) at ISO 1600 on my 5D. Not one unusable shot out of the bunch.

Example:

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psychoace said:
Oh I would have but it was just too dark and I would have much blurrier pictures. These kids love to move around and a 1/50 shutter speed is all I was getting (I actually had it at -1/3 on exposure comp to get it that quick). Also I don't like pushing my Rebel XT over ISO 200 cause it just gets to noisy for my liking so I just try to do my best until I absolutely have to move it up to that. I guess I can push it in lightroom but during the time I was shooting it was impossible.
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Don't mean to be an ass, but why do you say "could of" when AFAIK it's 've or have?

ALso that is pretty impressive for 1600 ISO, hell if you said it was 100 ISO I would probably believe without comparison.
 
JohnnyNapalm said:
I hear ya. My XTi was crap at higher ISOs. I hate to say, but the old adage of "you get what you pay for" is so true in the camera arena. I accidentally shot half of an outdoor event (during the DAY, mind you) at ISO 1600 on my 5D. Not one unusable shot out of the bunch.

Example:
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Yeah well it's a hobby so investing that much is out of the question but it is something I do strive for. I got lucky my aunt sold me her XT for $100 bucks and I bought the 50mm for $100 so a pretty descent $200 investment. I don't think I will ever it as a job but it's fun to learn.

Koko yeah I'm grammar nazi's worse dream. I just tend to plop down what comes from my head. I don't refine it really which probably makes me look pretty dumb but we all have our faults.
 
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I love the lighting in my house during the day time. I had to compensate for the fact the lighting on the left side of my face was darker then the right by just turning more to the left so less of my left side was visible. I just need a better subject now. If my girlfriend wasn't so shy it would be a lot easier.

Ahh I just noticed the big shadow across my nose. Ah nothings perfect. Anyway I find it very difficult to do self portraits without a remote. It takes a lot of time and patients although I think I should do it with my laptop so I can get a more immediate result.
 
here's an update on the project i've been working on for the past few weeks:

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the current size of the panorama is 50,000 x 8,000 (0.4 Giga pixels; 4.13 GB PSB file) i had to shrunk it, because working on a larger file was proving itself to be very difficult on a home PC. even now, it's bringing my PC to its knees, but it's doable. the worst part i think is over (stitching and correcting the perspective), but there's still a lot to be done, and with such a large file, it will take a while, before it's all nice and clean.

just to give you an idea of the amount of details contained in this shot, here's a 100% crop of the JHC antenas:

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Northop that is awesome. How many shots did it take to create? Also what program are you using to stitch it all together?
 
Thank you. For stitching I'm using PTGui, but with this size I should really be using Autopano Giga. I've tried the demo of it, and it did a much better job then PTGui, but i couldn't justify buying another stitching software for this one job.

The panorama is made of 84 pictures. I used Nikon D80 and a Nikkor 200-400mm /4 lens at 200mm to capture all the images. Working with this panorama in photoshop reminds me of the good old days, when after applying changes to the photo, I have to wait a few minutes for the changes to apply. It's really time consuming, but I like where this is going.
 
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I was really bored. And the mouse in my right hand is my make shift remote trigger (the camera is connected to my laptop which is running the canon software). As i mentioned earlier I just like the lighting in my house.
 
50mm is a weird lens on a crop camera, but i use mine all the time as well, especially for taking snaps of this beast right here... his name is Protoss ;)

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northrop said:
50mm is a weird lens on a crop camera, but i use mine all the time as well, especially for taking snaps of this beast right here... his name is Protoss ;)
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Nice ones. I really like the third one.

A local neighborhood goshawk. ISO 1600 since I'm too poor to get an f/2.8 tele.
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Cute dog....:)


Watchout Below....










Ibisis









Yellow Warbler at ISO2000.





Unknown bird at ISO2000
 
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