Nomitations to be invited, to be precise. I’ve got 8 – first come, first served.
I’ve been experimenting with shooting wide-angle and wide open. Just because I’m curious. Can you get a nice blur with a wide-angle lens?
These shots aren’t all that great, and I didn’t shoot them all at the same time in an organized test. It’s more of a question that’s been nagging me in the back of my mind and I decided to gather some shots and blog about it.
I conclude you can get decent some blur if you try hard enough and have a fast enough wide-angle lens, but it’s not as nice as an 85mm f/1.4 and it’s impossible to blur out the background to the same degree that a telephoto lens could do. It can be a unique style if you want to take that on, but it seems a bit incomplete.
Do you have any wide-angle shots with bokeh? Please share!
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This is awesome! Totally laughing out loud watching this.
I sure wish there was a way to embed YouTube videos here.
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What is this? Is this a mistake?
If it’s true, I wonder if there will be a 5D mark III to replace it.
Curious.
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Editing JPG files results in lost detail. Every time a JPG file is opened and re-saved, some data is lost. That’s why so many photo-editing software systems try to market Non-Destructive Editing – the original file is not being re-saved every time you change something.
Here’s a great example of how loss in JPG files can eventually turn a nice image into mush.
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I just saw this post by Moose Peterson and noticed an unexpected sentiment expressed in it. I don’t mean to second-guess Moose or question his tastes, but I thought I would offer my thoughts as feedback.
The image I’m referring to is the last one, the HDR of the “Lady Jo” plane with the orange background light. Moose says, “Then once it did, I switched to the other side and did the 5 frame HDR. While a valid technique, I’m tired of it. I’m on the hunt for a better solution, it will probably take some time. In this application, the shadow detail which shouldn’t be present is. I just need that solid black. Gotta play with that.”.
I’m not sure what he’s going for here. I would imagine that one of the 5 exposures has a great sky and no detail at all on the plane, so if that is what’s desired, just use that image? I’m totally guessing here, so it’s not a rhetorical question. Also, I think the detail is perfectly valid. There could be a hint of Joe McNally strobe light on the side of the plane providing detail, or the plane could be just outside a hangar which is reflecting just a bit of the sunrise light. Both options are just as valid as the HDR in my mind.
It’s probably just not what Moose was going for, but I think it’s an awesome shot! Keep going, I love seeing the great shots and not-so-great shots, since they’re usually all better than mine. 
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Not exclusively photography-related, but I thought I would throw this out there anyway.
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips -> Lightroom Videos
- askdane.com
- Buzz Out Loud
- Camera Dojo: Digital Photography Enthusiasts
- The Candid Frame: A Photography Podcast
- Daily Photo Tips with Chris
- Digital Photography Life
- Digital Photography Tips from the Top Floor
- FLOSS Weekly
- Hanselminutes
- The Java Posse
- Layers TV: For Everything Adobe
- MacBreak Weekly
- Moose Peterson
- Photofocus
- Photoshop User TV
- PixelPerfect
- Rails Envy
- Security Now!
- This Week in Photography
- Within The Frame
- WNYC’s Radio Lab
- You Look Nice Today
Feel free to share your favorites in the comments.
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I shot a wedding a few weeks ago, using on-camera bounce flash, and I really struggled with too slow shutter speeds. I was on Aperture Priority, as usual, and I was trying to use fast apertures for shallow depth of field. I kept getting 1/15th, even though my aperture was 2.8 and my ISO was 800 – this is with flash helping out! I was shooting for my friend Jack, who has the same camera but a slower 18-200mm lens. He was getting 1/60th, f/5.6 at ISO 200!
I’ve tried everything I can think of. Active D lighting on? No. Minimum flash sync speed (setting f2 in the D300) too low? Well, yes, it was, but that didn’t solve the problem. Lens aperture sticking closed? No. Matrix metering – check. Auto ISO? Off. Auto ISO on and set to 1/60th minimum shutter speed? No effect.
I had just about given up. Actually, I gave up.
I was just testing using the SB-800 as my master (instead of the pop-up) and noticed that I was still having that problem. I fiddled around with settings here and there, and suddenly, it was fixed!
USING REAR CURTAIN SYNC ALLOWS SHUTTER SPEEDS SLOWER THAN THE “f2″ SETTING SPECIFIES IS THE MINIMUM SHUTTER SPEED!
By turning off Rear Curtain Sync, my shutter speed would no longer dip below the “f2″ setting I specified.
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The following lenses are now up for sale. Email me at: “kevwil” at that Google email system (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, no spam please).
*SOLD* Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G AF-S N – well cared for, about a year old, in ‘excellent’ to ‘like-new’ condition.
*SOLD* Nikon 70-300 f/4.5-5.6G AF-S VR – well cared for, about 1.5 years old, in ‘excellent’ to ‘like-new’ condition.
*SOLD* Nikon 20mm f/2.8D – barely used, in ‘like-new’ condition
Nikon 180mm f/2.8 ED AIS – was purchased used, body and lens hood have some cosmetic marks but glass and mechanics are perfect.
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