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RafaPolit wrote in post #11914853
Well friends, you now how they say that "Love takes Time" I'm now officially in love with my new lens! It was the first day of some decent light out there without rain, but having been raining all week has somewhat cleaned the air. Today we had a nice magic hour and sunset, and I did some of my 'golden city' shots to see the difference.

I'm not one for pixel peeping, but the resolution of this lens is nothing short of breathtaking. On this small details like lights, distant houses and hill trees, the difference is remarkable! Also the color rendition is so deep and contrasted that I find myself changing the curve from medium-contrast to linear in LR. The other aspect of great difference it the border of the frame. In the center, they are more on par, but on the borders of the frame the difference is also quite remarkable. Very happy with the 17-55!!

Here's my new sunset:

Clash of clouds

I did some 'product' pictures of some sculptures and my 70-200 in the magic hour light, I'll post them in a while. Hope you guys like it,

Rafa.

Wow! words can't describe how beautiful that is. Nice work

That scene is always impressive Rafa, you've captured it very brilliantly this time. The sky adds a lot to it.

Rafa, that's stunning. I'm so happy that you're happy with your new baby. You struggled long and hard over the decision, and it appears you came to the right conclusion.

Can't wait to see more.

Vectoria wrote in post #11914819
I live in Maumee Ohio nothing here to do.

Hey, I know Maumee. I used to live about an hour from you, in Adrian MI. Maumee is pretty urban and exciting compared to Adrian

And I agree with the above, very nice one Rafa! I really like the warm/cool battle going on between the ground and the sky.

Mookalafalas wrote in post #11914938
Hey, I know Maumee. I used to live about an hour from you, in Adrian MI. Maumee is pretty urban and exciting compared to Adrian

I will agree with you on that. adrian has nothing also lol

Hey I wanted to get some filters. Can someone link me to some filters that is good to use?

Here is one of my sister-in-laws cat. He really likes to sit still. I haven't done anything to it except to crop it. Seems like the warm tone of the cat and wood floors make the whole thing seem orangy.

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Vectoria wrote in post #11915020
Hey I wanted to get some filters. Can someone link me to some filters that is good to use?

I recently received this one (just a few days ago). I see the price has gone up substantially though.

http://cgi.ebay.com …iewItem&item=23​0587425913

It's a combination circular polarizer and warming filter.

You definitely do need a polarizer though, to cut the glare of water, etc.

I guess this picture is caused by a long winter walking around the house trying to find something to shoot.

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dshort4597 wrote in post #11915022
Here is one of my sister-in-laws cat. He really likes to sit still. I haven't done anything to it except to crop it. Seems like the warm tone of the cat and wood floors make the whole thing seem orangy.

In this case, I don't find the orange tones at all objectionable. And boy, you sure nailed the shot. Tack sharp, especially the eyes, which is where it needs to be sharp.

Mookalafalas wrote in post #11914938
Hey, I know Maumee. I used to live about an hour from you, in Adrian MI. Maumee is pretty urban and exciting compared to Adrian

Adrian, wow, big time! I'm in Edwardsburg, MI. Population 1,191! We're moving up though, because when we moved a few years ago our village population was 420.

AnnieBananie wrote in post #11915037
I recently received this one (just a few days ago). I see the price has gone up substantially though.

http://cgi.ebay.com …iewItem&item=23​0587425913

It's a combination circular polarizer and warming filter.

You definitely do need a polarizer though, to cut the glare of water, etc.

Thanks I will look into that one

marubozo wrote in post #11915050
Adrian, wow, big time! I'm in Edwardsburg, MI. Population 1,191! We're moving up though, because when we moved a few years ago our village population was 420.

Well, if your pop tripled in a few years I guess it's officially booming. At that rate, in a dozen years or so you will be up to Adrian's mighty 20k...
My area has about a 1 million people. At first I hated the city, but now am used to it.

natums wrote in post #11914107
Re-starting my 365 project after having a really bad week.

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Thats awesome, hopefully you will have a better week, may I ask do you guys have compitions with your images as I noticed you guys go back and forth with it last week if so how would one like myself post up some is there any rules?

As always thanks a lot for the kind words friends! Thanks Vectoria, Rivest, Annie, and Al.

@dshort, parodying Gandalf: "I've seen that cast in the images, and not by you!". There is no shots that describe the ambient there, but I can almost bet (something cheap of course! ) that you have wooden or colored ceilings! and you are bouncing your flash. Did I win? At my grandfather's birthday a few years ago I was so happy to have borrowed my fathers camera and flash that I just tilted the head and fired away. Every image was cast with a redish/orange tint. The flash was bouncing off the wood or red ceiling (I didn't noticed it there) and it was like turning on a red light on everything. The other option is that you have some WB hue shift or some other variations made to the Picture Styles, cause floor only casts that hue when lit through extreme sunlight! At any rate the images are fantastic, and I agree with Annie, the Cat's image is nailed!

Annie, fantastic shots of the power outage. Glad it forced you out to get some pictures! I'm not wishing for that now, but it sure is a 'welcome' accident. The sunbeams above your house are great!

Vectoria, what do you want to achieve with the filters? I ask because good filters can be expensive while cheap filters will surely degrade image quality. I find there are three useful filters to have.

- The first are UV filters to protect the lens. This has been discussed at-nauseum and there is no clear consensus: some say "leave the lens without UV, change front element if needed, specially at $50 per filter" others say "use it to protect the lens". I am with the latter group.
- The others are ND (Neutral Density) filters. These cut the light going into the sensor and have a few uses. They can help use wider apertures outdoors and still achieve good DoF, or to force longer shutter speeds for things like clouds or waterfalls. This are marginal situations for most of us, but the results could be quite pleasing. There are different strengths of filters, the most common cut 3 stops, but you can find all sorts to some that cut a whooping amount of 10 fstops at which point you can no longer see through the camera, you need to compose the image with the filter out, focus, measure light, then put the filter and calculate the new exposure and they are worth for 30 seconds and up... some to several minutes.
- The last type are the Circular Polarizing Filters. These help polarize the light and are used to wipe out reflections (for instance, fish inside a pond, you could take away the reflection of the pond in order to see the fish) or to concentrate the light from the sky... instead of a washed light blue you'll get a nice deep blue. There are some of these like the one Annie had that are, on top of that, warming filters... they'll render warmer tones.

So, what are you hoping to achieve with the filters?

Rafa.