Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM (Thread 3)

mpstan wrote in post #18247942
You couldn't just use your 135L at f4 to f8 to take tack sharp portraits with OCF?

What do I know; I do difficult lit church photography and portrait type work; I have a 135, the 70-200f4 and an 85 1.8, and think I should toss all 3 and go Tamron 70-200 2.8 VC and Sigma's new 85 ART. Love my 135 but I think I'd love the 85 ART more, could do indoor shooting more effectively, and with a 70-200 2.8 believe I could get by very well without my 135 for everything else.

And that is why most Wedding phtotogs use the 70-200 F2.8 IS - way, way more flexible (the FL range) and the IS is a huge issue which allows SS that you just cannot use with the 135L - especially if you use a 5DSR as I do - without Flash, I honestly couldn't get it tack sharp images, 90% of the time, using a SS below 1/1000. I know this may sound like an insane SS, and it isn't that high when using a 5D3 / 1Dxii type pixel density - and that is why I ended up selling my 50L, 85Lii and 135L - without IS there was just no way of using them. I moved to using a combo of a 70-200 F2.8 IS and a Tamron 85 1.8 VC on the 5DSR - the pixel density of the 5DSR allows the Tamron 85 to be cropped and act a lot like a 135L if required.

A couple more from a few weeks ago...

CP3 Time...

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PExpo wrote in post #18247489
Snow Day!

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/QKn7​bd Bridge by Pollard Exposures, on Flickr

Love the colors in this one. I'd love to know how managed to make all those colors so vibrant and distinctive while keeping the snow seemingly white. I've had a lot of trouble trying color correct my images lately. But I just can't figure out a repeatable process to do that in Lightroom (for what it's forth, I won't use Photoshop on a general basis as it would be too cumbersome).

model vs snow

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The snow does not look right to me. Pink cast ... and just not snow white or snow bright.

Sony A7RII + Canon 135

The famous statue of Poseidon in Gothenburg where i live, in the background the arches of the Art Museum can be seen. Shot handheld at night because my tripod was left at home.

Went downtown in the pouring rain last night for the protest march...
7D2 + 135L

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The 135 sometimes feels too tight. But when start stitching with it, it can be really special.

OoDee wrote in post #18249317
Love the colors in this one. I'd love to know how managed to make all those colors so vibrant and distinctive while keeping the snow seemingly white. I've had a lot of trouble trying color correct my images lately. But I just can't figure out a repeatable process to do that in Lightroom (for what it's forth, I won't use Photoshop on a general basis as it would be too cumbersome).

Well for one I meter and expose for my subject in camera. In post-processing in LR I usually bump the vibrancy to 20-25 and reduce whites to -20 for the snow which subsequently has me boosting darks under my curves. When I am in PS I also duplicate the image and throw the multiply effect on that duplicate layer and erase around my subject to make a "spotlight" and reduce the opacity of that layer to make it not-so-obvious as a vignette as opposed to black vignetting...