Min DOF Photography

Be very afraid!

Sometimes it happens, that I too, use Canon 1D mkII, for what it was meant to use. Fast, unpredictable action . And this time I put 8.5 fps to use. Hell yeah, it “fires” faster than most machineguns.

No Photoshop manipulation, except for frameing, resizing etc.

I hope you’re not getting tired of my stupid faces posts (if so, complain about it in your comment). But it’s hard to do normal photos, with all the kind of friends I have .

For a smoke.

Smokers enjoy it while you can, soon you’ll be allowed to smoke only in the privacy of your home :evil-smiley: .

I got sick yesterday. So I went through my archives and found yet another retarded snap.

For the techies: taken with Canon 1D mkII and EF 85 1.8@f2.2.

I’m going to write the full review with more samples over on slo-foto.net, so I’m going to show you a few samples, so you can see what’s the catch with this funny little lens. It’s not only it’s rather interesting appearance that draws attention, the results can be pretty interesting too. I confess, I didn’t take enough time to master it, so I won’t show you any masterpieces. I was to slow at manual focusing and sweet spot adjusting to make any good portraits, I missed all the interesting expressions, failed to capture the model’s mood, energy etc. So what are you going to see below, is a visual presentation of what this lens can do. Pretty much an average test and tests usually include pretty boring pics…

Notice how everything white on the photos above and below gets blown to high heaven (eg blown out or as usually named it has a lot of hot spots). Nikon’s JPG dynamic range really sucks. And it doesn’t matter if it was taken with its flagship camera (D2Xs).In the lower photo the sweet spot is best represented.

If you look carefully and have a decent DOF knowledge, you’ll see how this photo differs from those taken with regular lenses. Sneakers would be in the “DOF line” (90 degrees angle according to the lens, both vertically and horizontally)if it was taken with a normal lens. Here you can see what’s in focus, eg where the sweet spot is

I’ll post more from today’s session tomorrow, I’ve got to run, because a friend of mine is throwing a bday party…

Hehe, I know you’re not used to look at such cheesy shit on my blog, but I’m making an exception today. Besides that it feels right to be cheesy sometimes. Especially now, when I really don’t have anything interesting to show you (I haven’t had a session for a month or so now).

Anyway here it is:

Oh, it’s supposed to be in colour, right?

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’ve also changed the template. I didn’t find any flash templates that work with the new blogger and support google ads at the same time. There were some that work with the new blogger, but all of them hide all the page elements which is fine for all of the categories (labels, blogroll, archive etc) except for the ads, which must be shown on the main side if you want to earn a few bucks now and then. Tell me your thoughts on the colour combination and layout. You can paste a link to a nice template too;).

I got Canon 1D mkII for a few days (I wanted to take 1Ds mkII, but an error ocurred yesterday and it wasn’t repaired yet), so I took it for a spin, to set it up for saturday’s wedding. I wanted FF because it’s very usable for a backup with 50 mm lens on it and excellent for the romantic shots, because of thinner DOF. On the other hand, the focal lenght for closeups is better on 1D and you can get closer too (crop). I wanted a FF or a 1.6 crop (usable only as a backup). But neither was available. I’ll have to do it with a compromise, I guess.

Anyway, a few pics of my dawgs:

Bad ass muthafucka, ain’t he?

He couldn’t concentrate on a game of strategy that we were playing because of my shutter pressing frenzy

That’s the topic for today;):

Taken with Nikon D200 and 105 2.8 Micro. As you can see he’s influenced by Jim Carrey (remember the mask?) and ICP. The first&only shot. That’s what I like, to get it right the first time hehe.

It fuckin’ sux…