My newest addition to the egg farm (my lens collection) is the Sigma 50mm f/1.4. I bought it because I wanted a higher end lens than the Canon 50mm 1.4 but did not want to shell out nearly $1600 for the slight upgrade from the Canon 50mm 1.2. My choice for the Sigma 50mm seems to be a good one. It’s really sharp and it’s great for photos with a shallow depth of field.
Taken at f/2 on a table in Brooklyn, NY
When shooting photos for a debate tournament, I had to shoot many groups. The prime issue I encountered dealt with focus in group photos. Shooting with my 50mm, I had a short DoF (Depth of Field) of only a few inches. That means it was easy to have this out of focus. I needed wide apertures to avoid high ISOs inside and found it very awkward to ask people to get on the same plane of view relative to the lens (in other words, equal distance from my lens) so they would be all in focus. Here are two shots showing the issue.
Can you guess which is the original? Can you guess how this was done? Well, it was a good Photoshop job.
Credit goes to Aknacer from Flickr. He is really a pro at Photoshop and I admire his skills and abilities.
Taken at f/4 on my shiny new 7D, this photo was super sharp. I have gotten really obsessed with getting my images really sharp, especially with the new auto focus system in my new Canon EOS 7D.
While editing I noticed something out of the ordinary in one of my photos. In this screen shot, you can see the unusual thing I discovered. The photo looks great big, but when zoomed in not so much. If you view the smaller version of photo on left of my screen which is the full size photo (the big one in the center is a cropped view), you will see it’s a wonderfully composed and nice looking shot. Now, I don’t know if this was a flaw with the actual photo or rather an unusual umm thing coming out of this girl’s nose. Anyway, I have never seen my camera pull a stunt like that so perhaps she has some strange thing coming out of her nose, but who really knows? Anyway, I has to manually remove it from the photo. This was a shoot I did a month ago or so but this photo still puzzles me.
