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The background of the third picture was in a hotel. Lights were hanging straight down all around a tree in the lobby. I knew instantly that it'd make an awesome out-of-focus background. Just wish I had more time; this was the only shot I managed to get :( As for using a flash, the built-in flash is pretty much all I have for right now. I have a Canon Speedlight 199A that I used with my old AE-1, but I would have to play around in manual mode for that to work (not the best if you're limited on time for a good shot). Would that be worth checking out?
Thread: October challenge | Forum: Photography
Thread: Experiment with lighting | Forum: Photography
Since the text was difficult to read, here's the text unformatted; sorry about that:
This picture was done with the camera set at f/32 for 4/s. ISO 100(not long enough to get a good exposure). I set the camera up on a tripod aiming down at the coin on an index card. I used the timer shooting mode so I could get ready with a flash off camera. When the exposure started, I just chose a few spots (8 maybe) around the coin to illuminate from most angles. I was pleased with the results.
Just posting anything interesting I run across with my experimentation. Feel free to post any interesting things you guys have done to take pictures.
Thread: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM | Forum: Photography
I called Canon tech support and he said that it worked perfectly fine and he didn't mention any known problems with the lens/camera combination. Thanks for your guy's personal thoughts on this as well.
Michael
Thread: Camera Purchasing | Forum: Photography
I know 80mm seems to work fine for portrait work. If you check out my gallery, the two portraits I have there were taken with my AE-1 and a Sigma 39-80mm f/3.5 FD lens out at 80mm and lens wide open using natural light. There's not tight budget that I'm adhering to because I'm just going to start saving up all of my extra money to do this. I might be able to have about 50% of what I need sometime around September. I'm not sure if I'm going to use any of the extra money from school or loan money to help get it sooner or not. Right now, I'm just in the research and planning phase. Looking at the startup costs, I shouldn't be making half-hearted purchases and regret them later. I think I'll try to see if I can get the EF 50mm 1.4, EF 100mm 2.8 macro, and EF 28-135mm 3.5-5.6 IS USM. It may be until the end of this year, but I'll try my best to save as much as possible.
Thread: Camera Purchasing | Forum: Photography
I wish to have at least one lens that's going to get me some great night shots. That's the secondary reason I chose the 50mm f1.4 lens (since all other 1.4's out there are larger/smaller focal lengths and much more costly). It will also give a great DOF to portraits, but would they look alright since it's the equivalent of an 80mm lens? As well, I'd really love to keep the 1:1 macro of the 100mm f/2.8 lens that I listed in the first post because I wish to explore macro photography. The difference between f/1.4 and f/1.8 is .7-stop? So, if I'm correct, one full stop is 2 times the light, giving the former a 1.4x light advantage ( 2 x .7 ) as well as having the shorter DOF. If I were to stay with the 50mm f/1.4 and 100mm f/2.8 macro knowing that I wish to capture portraits, night shots, and macro shots, what would be recommended as a third lens? What also needs to be kept in mind is that with those lens choices, there's no good lens that's going to allow me to take pictures where backing up isn't desired (since those lenses are 80mm and 160mm respectively). Would it be best to save up more and get the 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens as suggested by DHolman in the fourth post? This would be ~$1145 total for the lenses + $1250 for the 10D = $2395 That's would be quite a bit to save up for. Just trying to figure things out so that I can get started. Thanks for the help thus far!
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Thread: Portrait Lighting | Forum: Photography