I arrived home yesterday to find the 52mm Hoya R72 filter that I'd won on Ebay from a guy in Austin had arrived. Yay! I'd bought a Canon EF 50mm 1.8 Mark I lens a few weeks ago because I wanted to try infrared portraiture, and needed a faster lens to avoid the 15-second exposure times that are the norm with my EF-S 10-22 and EF 28-135 IS. I already had the Mark II version of that lens, but despite good optics, everything else is crummy for manual focus IR.
So you can imagine how happy I was to find the filter waiting for me. Unfortunately, it's been heavy overcast weather in central Texas of late. And it was getting close to 6 p.m.--not the light conditions I'd hope to have when taking this filter & lens combo out on its maiden voyage. Still, I figured, I wanted it for the fast aperture, so let's see what it could do even in poor conditions. Here's the result of shooting a pair of passion flowers:
WOW! Not a technically good image, I know, but it came from a wind-plagued, four-second exposure, ISO 400. The lens was wide open, so it's not as sharp as it might be at 2.8. But still. This is AWESOME for someone who doesn't yet have a modded camera. Heck, I hadn't even bothered taking a new custom white balance for this test. I'm very, very encouraged. So much so that I tried some self-portraits, which I'll post later.  | Byte size: ZERO | Content warning: NOT AN IMAGE |
So you can imagine how happy I was to find the filter waiting for me. Unfortunately, it's been heavy overcast weather in central Texas of late. And it was getting close to 6 p.m.--not the light conditions I'd hope to have when taking this filter & lens combo out on its maiden voyage. Still, I figured, I wanted it for the fast aperture, so let's see what it could do even in poor conditions. Here's the result of shooting a pair of passion flowers:
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