Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

VSV wrote in post #4619859
Was the doctor shot posed? If it was it looks very natural.

They are all models, I just had them pretend to be who they are in the shot.
Doc carried the shot, the little boy is a natural, and you have to learn how to be a Director to get your models to do what you want for the camera.

PhotoInc wrote in post #4619791
Here are a couple ISO 400 WFO
It's a love hate relationship with this lens.....it hates it when I push it to do shots it does not want to do......It's a dynamite lens for the money when I shoot with in it's means, that's when I love it

those would be excellent stock photos - im assuming this is what they are? you mentioned models

somethingsimple wrote in post #4619248
i love your sig lol

Sad but true, isn't it?

somethingsimple wrote in post #4619248
think your pic might need a bit of white balancing?

That really depends. Oddly enough, the yellow hue you see in the pic was the real thing. The yellow tungsten light coupled with orange/yellow sheets produced a yellowish picture. I'm not sure if it should be counter-balanced, or left as is...

Wanted to check out the focus of the lens after reading some of the above posts
this is a crop to the forum limits taken at F1.4 with the ISO 3200 bad lighting from my PC monitor

Paulice,

Your copy looks to be just about perfect. Mine may is front focusing by about 2mm to 4mm. I hope this is the only reason why my f/1.4 images are soft, since it's a fixable problem.

Here's a few:

this one was taken at f2

my friend and his nephew playing wii

I took these with a Canon Digital Rebel XT, and with a Canon 50mm 1.4 lense.
The reason I purchased this lens was because I dislike the flash, and prefer to handhold the camera and shoot with existing light. I therefore need a lens that would allow me to do that.

I find the lens to be wonderful in low light, but what I don't like is that I can't get any "width" to the shot. But, the "bokeh" is superb, and wonderful for "portrait" type shots,
where it really excells.

I took these shots at a Broadway Cabaret of a terrific performer and am pretty happy with the results. Since, I've got to use a ISO of 1600, there's some "noise", but I don't mind the noise, because the captured moment is more important.

Please let me know what you think?

Thanks,

mypoppy31

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^Try running those files through Noiseware.

I'm loving this thread! Especially because Brown is bringing mine tomorrow! Looking forward to owning this lens, I will post photos once I give it a drive.

ieatstars wrote in post #4624998

Um....WOW.

Trying to link to my flickr photos.....see what happens
5D, 400iso, 1/30th sec hand held, f1.4, +.7 Exp comp, this lens can see in the dark

Round 2

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