Min DOF Photography

Dunno, I just do…I hope your monitors are correctly calibrated.

85L@f1.2

I don’t know why, but I like those photos in a strange way - as snapshots ofcourse. The first and main reason why I’m posting is, because I figured out you don’t respond well to solely textual posts. I can understand why, after all this is a photo blog. So let’s get down to it.

Yeah, that’s me muthafuckaz (foto: Nikolaj Lukež). ISO 800+ 2 stops in rawshooter. Yeah baby, it’s a Canon (check the post before this one, LOL):

Min dof+bokeh showoff

I wanted to take photos today. Badly. I felt an urge to have a session. I had a few ideas and a couple of locations to try. But I couldn’t get a model, I contacted a bunch of girls. With no luck, a few were studying, one on a trip in Holland, one is sick and the last was outta town.

I said to myself: ok, no models for today, I’ll bother my friends (what’s not even remotely close to a session with a model ofcourse, but better than nothing).So I brought my camera with me when I went for a cup of coffee with my friends, but the midday sun ruined everything (I didn’t even try to take any photos). After I spent the whole day outside, I finally got “lucky” and took a few shots of my friends just before the sunset.

This is it:
Who tha playa, ho


Trippin’

Don’t fuck with me, esse

Ker se cenim

Today I went to the abandoned factory Rog with my friend Nikolaj. I planned on having a session there, so we went there to try a few improvised lighting setups, so I’d be ready for the session and wouldn’t be loosing time with finding the right setup. Ok, setup is probably not the right word, since I only have a single Canon 430 EX flash unit and a 95 cm reflector. So we played around with different reflector positioning, bouncing the natural light from the reflector and flash from the ceiling or just flash of the reflector (in most cases). I hoped I’d be able to shoot with available light only in some parts of the factory, but unfortunately that wasn’t possible. Besides that, my favourite prop was gone, a bed, a part of it really, made from wood and some kind of fabric, similar to velvet. I planned a big part of the session (with a female model, not with my friend:) around that bed. So I don’t think I’m going to have a session there. What a shame, I was so happy, because I thought I found a great spot for my next session…

This shot was taken with the Canon 18-55 kit lens wide open (f3.5:)) and Canon 430 EX flash bounced off the reflector on the lower left and window light on the right:

Yeah, Canon 1Ds mkII is gone. I had to return it yesterday. Damn, it was fun using it, I was doing real min DOF shots for the whole weekend. I plan on buying Canon 5/6D and Canon 135 f2L ’till the end of this year anyway. So sooner or later I’ll own the min (or mean:) DOF machine and use it all the time, not just from time to time like now. I can’t wait…

These are the last photos taken with it. It was on Sunday during the “coffee time”. I took just a few shots and those two came out pretty interesting.

I’ve already posted the best from this party, now I’m posting the rest, so that people can see some more of their photos.

His style is wild:)

Slo-foto.net threw a party for it’s 4th anniversary party tonight. We split into 3 teams of five players. A few of us was ofcourse busy taking photos between the rounds (after all it’s a photo site anniversary). I wont bore you with text this time (besides that a bunch of people are waiting for the photos to be posted), let’s get straight to the photos.

The only gal at the party


He really likes me:)








Again the only girl at the party, this time a bit more naughty:P

Doin’ his thang

And another got in front of him

Finally someone took a photo of me:)

What to do on those boring, cloudy, cold days…You can always go in a bar with your friends for a cup of coffee or a beer. And take your camera with you so you can amuse yourself and annoy your friends:D. Here are a couple of pics of my dawg S3to, still a part of my Canon EF-S 17-55 2.8 IS test. It was mounted on a 400D - a funny combination, the lens is much bigger and a bit heavier then the camera (without battery grip).

This are the first two photos of him that I’ve taken. It’s funny that they are the best (out of cca 10 shots). On sessions with models it’s always the other way around. Yeah, this are candids and some friends get annoyed after a few shots, girls just warm up after a few (20-30) shots.

Yes, the best hairdresser in town again. While I was testing Pentax k10d and a couple of Pentax lenses we went for a cup of coffee in a local bar. He was in the mood for some stupid funny faces (come to think about it, he’s always:). I took this shot with the Pentax 70 2.4 DA lens. I know the photo isn’t good regarding lighting, although it was shot wide open at ISO 640 I had to use onboard flash. But the point of this photo is to bring a smile on your face not to show a technically perfect portrait. I hope I succeeded.

It took forever didn’t it;)? I named my blog Min Dof Photography and didn’t, untill now, dedicate it a single post, just a few samples in other posts. Shame on me…Ok, now I’m going to show you a few photos.

This one is a portrait of Oskar Karel Dolenc, master of photography. It was taken at Canon’s VIP lounge on Photokina. There was a product loan counter where you could get anything you wanted. I was playing with 85 1.2L II most of the time, it really amazed me. DOF at 1.2 is CRAZY if you get as close as I did with this shot (uncropped). The shot was taken with Canon 350D (with a FF camera you can’t get that close).

Below you can see 100% crop (unprocessed ofcourse). You can see, that only the eye is in focus, DOF is really shallow:

This one was already posted, but I just don’t want you to miss it. Taken with 350D and Canon EF 85 1.8 at f1.8.