IMG_2116, originally uploaded by The Bywaters.
Robyn being the sneaky wife she is, had to bite her tongue and buy me two presents this Father’s Day so I wouldn’t find out she had already gotten me stuff! I have been wanting to get a better lens for portraits/indoor/etc…and to basically replace the SUB PAR lens that came with our camera. So, I talked her into this one –
I already LOVE IT! The depth of field it can produce is CRAZY…and this photo of Robyn was taken handheld/ no flash/ with just one lamp turned on! We’ll obviously have to take more care with what we focus on…’cause honestly at the highest aperture you could focus on someone’s nose and the rest of their face would be blurred…can make for some nice effects…but, then can close down so absolutely EVERYTHING in the image is in focus. It will be really fun to have on our upcoming sailing trip!!
So…the secret father’s day present she was hiding…well…I’ll have to talk about that when I get the pictures up on flickr!
A couple more sample pics:
I have the 50mm and it’s all I use. I’m purchasing a 17-55mm f/2.5 next week and I couldn’t be more excited about it. Is that normal?
That is VERY normal. I couldn’t sleep very well the night before the delivery!
I’m jealous. Russell just got a new camera and I’ve been playing with it. It’s sweet. I want a digital manual camera so bad!!!!
p.s. do you remember what your settings on the portrait of sophia are? How did you blur so quickly from so far aways?
it’s all in the lens…the depth of field (blur) is done through the aperture setting. That’s the GREAT thing about this new lens…it can go all the way down to 1.8 (the lower the number the greater the depth of field).
So…for that shot of sophia…the aperture was 1.8 – shutter speed 1/500
one SWEET thing with FLICKR – it stores ALL your camera settings:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_exif.gne?id=580769654&context=photostream
when you’re looking at a photo on the right hand side column – a section called “additional information” – there’s a “more properties” link which shows all the camera info…