I thought it'd be an idea to showcase images you have shot with a 50mm lens, (actually it is the idea of Drag) be it a mk1 or 11 thrifty 50, the f1.4 or indeed a superior 50mm L. If you don't have a prime 50mm, don't despair, set your zoom lens on 50 mm and off you go. Last week back, I set myself a goal to use just a 50mm lens and see what I could get in the bag. I got a few delicious surprises. Took me back to my film camera days of disciplinary photography. You'll find it really makes you slow down and think about what you are doing. Please no arguments about sensor sizes and the fact that on APS C's it is not 50mm it's this that and the other. The idea here is to simply stay on 50mm focal length, and see what you come up with.

EF 50mm f/1.8 11  Nifty or thrify 50, or plastic fantastic

A couple to get us under way.  Again the thrifty 50mm

BTW if you use a bridge style/compact camera you are most welcome.  The content of the shot is not paramount, just the fact that it was shot at 50mm Focal length.

Thanks, Ronnie, this is a good reason for me to go and find my 50 in the cupboard!

LOL! Clive Get it on the cam and get weaving my friend LOL!

I remember that door knob mate, well in fact I don't, I never saw in until you showed it to me on the back of you camera.

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Hi David, welcome in mate, yeah.  It was a total surprise how it came out when I brought it up on the computer

Straight out of the camera no post work at all apart from resize

 

Canon EOS-1D Mark III

Lens: EF50mm f/1.8 II

Aperture: f/1.8

Exposure Time: 1/2000

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Excellent Dave, I got some of these too, but I have not worked them up yet.

Neither have I! :)

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My ones of the bank station came out great, may do a little HDR on them.

Here is another.  I liked the sharpness of the sign and the soft building behind

 

Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Lens: EF50mm f/1.8 II
Focal Length: 50mm
Aperture: f/1.8
Exposure Time: 1/8000

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Magic.  The  essence of it all :}

I asked her she agreed to be my subject, isn't she pretty

Nifty 50

Nifty again

The full story of the Asian girl, she was one of a party of three, that were on assigment to get a photo of all three of them crammed in a London phone box with yours truly :biggrin:

I was asked a few months ago to photograph a mates band.  I did most with my 85mm f/1.8, but I did this one and a few others with my nifty fifty

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Excellent Dave, good idea to colour pop this.

You enjoyed it mate, I did not have to ask you twice to get in the phone box :~)

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Is that Gary BTW?

Hehe!  And Dee knows all about it hehe!

No, this was a good band! :~)

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LOL...I'll tell him, I'll grass LOL!

One last one from me off to bed now, honey has a migrane tonight so I am taking the early bath as it were

Here's my 50 mm contribution. This was why I bought the lens, to create background bokeh, and it seems to work here.

 

Smashing work Wayne, love the bokeh balls as they say.  Top work here.

This is such a good idea Ronnie!

I have a 50mm f1.4 fixed lens. I'll dust it off and start shooting!

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See you in here then :)

Thanks for this thread!

I bought mine some time ago, I use a Nikon D3000 and a Nikkor 50mm lens 1.8D. Now it is my main lens, I use it for everything because the quality of the light and focus is superior to any other.

I use it all the time, for all kinds of subjects, playing with all the settings. The lens is auto focus, although I use manual focus because I love it and often I get better results, as I always liked it.

Here is a pic of Byron, our male cockatiel, taken with it. Soon I will post a close view, so you can appreciate more the focus. See the blurred wall, that was only some centimeters away. I opened it to 2.2 for this.

Fantastic clarity and that bokeh is wonderful, look forward to the others!

Thanks for the link Ronnie. It looks like it's off to a great start.  I will go on a walk about with my 50 and see what I can see.

Nice one drag, and thanks for the general idea in the first place :)

I am in the main a nature photographer, but this nifty 50 day I was doing spawned a try at some street photography.

I was going to post his girlfriend here, you know the one Ronnie, the one with the Pink Kinky Boots.  But I took it on my 85mm f/1.8.  Now if you open it up for that little lens as well, I have loads more!

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Well it is essentially a 50mm thread mate, but as most are not listing exif data, we can only trust integrity.  Not that I for a minute suggesting anyone is being dishonest.  So I'd say if it was a zoom you were using, we'd never know it didn't range for 50mm :)

I'll give it a shot with my little bridge cam and see how it comes out!  :)  Thanks for the link, Ronnie.

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

You are welcome auntie, look foward to what you come up with :)

An original Audi Quatro production car.  This was spotted by David during our very productive shoot around the city of London.  Had a gentle hdr treatment.

Yes when I was a nipper I dreamed about them, still looks superb and I image will still show up the boy racers in thier little hot haches. 

Good still life or is that macro? I get so confused with all these photography terms:-)

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Hot hatches, pussies compared to this fire breathing dragon of a car that found itself disqualified from the Lombard rally, purely because it was just too fast LOL

The R. Send of that dragon on page one, I love the bokeh these lenses give, this is the kind of shot I wouldn't dream of doin, this is why I said on the outset that they make you slow down and see things in a totaly different way.  God bless the 50mm f/1.8 11

Great shots, I like very much the dragon tail photo. Agree with all that, the quality of focus, light, blur, is superior. In the Audi Quatro photo, if you see this photo at full size, one can notice the quality of the lighting and definition.

Here is the closeup of Byron:

Model: NIKON D3000
Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec
F Number: f/2.8
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Amazing details Jordi.  Fantastic post!

Thanks Ronoir!

London bus nifty 50

Here's one I took at the Chihuly Glass and Garden at Seattle Center.  Taken with the nifty 50 in the dark, 1/30 f3.2, ISO 400, no flash, handheld.

Great shot love, and welcome to our little thread, it is taking off nicely now :)

What a beauty Byron is!  Great shot, Jordi!  And I like the bus shot too, love.

This one was taken just before we went inside the exhibit, the tree is outside the front door.

Marvelous shots from you honey, I knew you were going to use the nifty, and we have that 50 mm day coming up in a few weeks, we'll have a ton of fun and a host of shots for this thread LOL!

This is one of the first I took with this lens. 

Excellent, the clarity is astounding.

Someone must have hit this with their head, hence to single hair that the plant deftly plucked from the scalp.

I was out taking pictures of our landscape project today, so while I was snapping pics rather that stacking bricks, I took some 50mm shots of one of our tiki torches with my little Canon.  It's approximate of course, but as close to 50 as I could get.

Oh ... ummm ... about f4.0, as I recall.

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

Close enough works Tara :}  Great image

Well this is 50mm. But with the cropfactor conversion it's 75mm. Does this count as 50 or 75?

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Yes it count's if it is a 50mm lens the APS-C or APS-H for that matter is not a factor my friend.

Great shots everyone. I love any excuse to get out a prime!

Canon L f/1.2

5d 11

 

Amazing photography everyone.

Ronoir,great idea of you starting this tread and it is like a carrot hanging in front of me.

God Bless.

I recently got the canon 50mm 1,4 lens and I must say I'm loving it..  I really like the shallow dof I get with it :)

This is from my first shoot with that little gem..  nothing too original but I really like the look it gives :)

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please because nobody tries to please him.

Superb capture Jenni.

God Bless.

I just got a new Nikon 50mm and have yet to use it, fun to see the shots you have all gotten though..  

Beautiful shots. I do not know how to get 50mm on my Canon Powershot SX130IS.  I keep looking over craigslist to pickup a Minolta SRT101 on the cheap.

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms!!

Well, not that you are on page three, I should go ahead and join in...the cockatiel looks great.