Couple of pics with Nikon 50mm f/1.8 this evening....

reddeathdrinker

reddeathdrinker

reddeathdrinker

Associate
Joined
19 Oct 2002
Posts
1,167
Location
Surrey
Drat and double drat. The sun went away at 4PM, just as I was getting out of work. Beautiful day to crack open a new lense, and get snap-happy otherwise.... Crisp. Clear. Uber-fast Auto-Focus. And under £100 for a Nikkor Prime.

I called this one "Buzz". 1/500s exposure, ISO400 and f/2.8, at a gloomy 7.22PM. This is the full-size pic, just cropped to size. No saturation/colour/level changes, a brief 1-pass unsharp mask, and this is straight out of the camera.

46357-r.jpg


And say hello to "Splash". 1/1250s, ISO800, f/1.8. I chucked a small rock up high, and pointed and clicked when it splashed down. I'm going to repeat this in sunlight....

46358-r.jpg


Whilst not particularly great shots, the lense shows a lot of potential.....
 
Last edited:
Looks like quite a lot of PF around the highlights in the 2nd photo, might be due to the lighting and the lens being wide open though so it'll be interesting how it performs in daylight.
 
Great photos, I like the second one especially.

To me, the focus on the first seems to be off the bee (on the petal to the right of its head), which it a pity. That's just me, though and I know shooting them is very difficult.

:)
 
titchard said:
Both of these images to me are extremely noisy, but I am unsure if that is down to the JPEG compression.

Rich
Click to expand...

They are noisy - high ISO levels combined with low light, and compressed to level 8 in Photoshop (you didn't want to download 3MB pictures, believe me....)

I'm holding out for some sun. Not much chance today though :(
 
i dont mean to demean your camer or lens, but that still is awfully noisy even if it is at low light and cropped. With the first shot you maybe could have lowered the ISO and made the shutter speed a bit longer.
 
Last edited:
I am sorry to say but i think that both of the photos look a bit too grainey, too noisy. The comp of them are quite nice though.
 
Nice pictures, splash is nice. They do seem a bit grainy though as previously mentioned. However I feel it adds a sense of realizm. A completly dead sharp image can almost destract the viewer from the actual photography. I personally like the film grain look so much so I rendered my entire final year project (animation film) using it. Worked really well.

I have been thinking about getting this lense for my potrait work (which has taken off real well). Think I might invest at the months end :).

King.

PS: The pictures wouldnt load becasue I was using my work pc. IT didnt like it. Over safe people they are.
 
A.N.Other said:
Great photos
Click to expand...

You're kidding? I don't mean to be rude but the focus is slightly off, they're very noisy, the first feels like 100% crop, the 2nd has the worst CA I've ever seen and it seems like a snapshot. The first is nicely composed, but I don't know whats going on to destroy the images that way. It seems like a rubbish lens. Sorry for being harsh but I want you to know how bad they are so you don't make the same mistake again :) My Canon A70, no actually my K800i can take a cleaner shot :)
 
Erm, yeah... what cyKey said pretty much sums them up, I'm afraid. Surely the first one has to be a massive crop, no way is the 50mm going to get that close on a bee without a set of extension tubes.
 
As I mentioned, they are noisy (high ISO levels), but in the case of the bee, I like the effect it has on the blurred out background. I will be redoing the water splash, come a sunny day.


Oh well. It's chucking it down with rain here, so no nice bright shots, except for my boots....this is unsharpened, just cropped, and resized in PS. The dodgy red background is just a red screen behind the sofa I was lounging on, in between washing pigeon-poo off a tailplane, and going to lunch. I recieved my Nikon D50 Digital Field Guide (David D Busch) in the post at work today, so I spent most of the day reading, and fiddling......

46636-r.jpg
 
Last edited:
Noise doesn't cause Chromattic Aberations though. Like I said, my K800i isn't that bad. Theres something seriously wrong there. You say they're taken with a D50 but my god they seem like a 2yr camera phone.
 
I'd say the bee is pretty good actually. The noise is there, but doesnt cause me a problem. The bee itself is pretty sharp - not bad for using a non-macro lens.

The fringing on the water droplets is bad though Im afraid.
 
cyKey said:
You're kidding? I don't mean to be rude but the focus is slightly off, they're very noisy, the first feels like 100% crop, the 2nd has the worst CA I've ever seen and it seems like a snapshot. The first is nicely composed, but I don't know whats going on to destroy the images that way. It seems like a rubbish lens. Sorry for being harsh but I want you to know how bad they are so you don't make the same mistake again :) My Canon A70, no actually my K800i can take a cleaner shot :)
Click to expand...
:confused: I did say they were a bit out of focus.

He's trying, so lay off the guy :). I like the idea for the original photos, even if they aren't perfect, so my comment stands. He's new with the lens, so cut him some slack!
 
A.N.Other said:
:confused: I did say they were a bit out of focus.

He's trying, so lay off the guy :). I like the idea for the original photos, even if they aren't perfect, so my comment stands. He's new with the lens, so cut him some slack!
Click to expand...

I often do cut a lot of people slack, but to say "Great photos" is just comedy considering what some people here post. If they're great then what are Hoodi's IR shots, or SDK's motorsports, or dods macros/motorcross. I'm being harsh because I want the guy to know just how badly something is going wrong here. Its a D50 yet its producing shots worse than a camera phone. I'm not talking about the composition I'm talking about the simple image quality. Its rubbish for what is meant to be a Canon 350D equivalent. Its not like I post this way to every newcomer. There is something very wrong there and I'm trying to emphasize it.
 
A.N.Other said:
He's trying.....
Click to expand...

I am! New camera, new lenses, no more "point-and-shoot" :)

I welcome all your critiques - it WILL only make me a better photographer......

/reddeathdrinker scurries off to find out what "Chromatic Aberations" are, how they are caused, and how to prevent them......
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom